The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-12

read from a newspaper, were worth %
millions of dollars Yes, sir, they
brought that much good money into the
state-mOre than anything else.
Now corn only brought-lerS see
why. yes, corn brought 81 millions. but
you see, corn isn't sold out but it is
money in from outside. Wheat-let's
see again, wheat brings about fifty
millions but wheat is sold right out
and it doesn't pay taxes and bring IN
sir, live stock is the great mOney-1nak-
ing industry of Kansas, and it ought
to receive greater recognition from the
worlds fair commission than 100000
IT'S expensive making a live stock
exhibit continued Governor Click. TO
do it right a breeder must begin
year before hand to get his herd ready
1t takes lots of work Then 1T costs
money to t5 Ike q herd to st. Louis ana
keep it there, and men must be kept
there to have the herd all curried and
brushed down ready to be shown at
any time
President Sutton said he had had an
idea that he wanted to make an exhibit
an advertisement in an agricultural
paper for a man to put in afew months
getting his herd ready.
Il got about twenty replies, cont1n-
ued the president, and every man
wanted from $40 to 500 a month be-
sides a lot of things thrown in, just for
getting that herd ready. 1 found it
would cost me about $4,000 to make my
exhibit. At that rate the $4,000 appro-
priation would only pay for five nerds
of cattle, to say nothing of horses ana
swine and other kinds of stock"
STATE SHOULD PAY EXPENSES.
President Sutton's idea seemed to be
that the state should pay all the expense
hibit itself, leaving the breeder free simp-
ly to rake in the prize money
Two or three others spoke along TINS
line and finally some one suggested an
additional committee to wait on the com
mission and see if a larger appropriation
can not be secured, the committee TO De
backed by a resolution of the association.
Secretary Heath explained that the
committee which has been working on
explained the offer the commission had
Judge w. H Rightmire said he has
been over the state considerable and that
his business takes him in contact with a
least 10 who are preparing TO take herds
to st. Louis without asking the commits
sion for any aid whatever They pro-
pose to go on their own hook;
President Sutton finally appointed Gov
Click, E. Harrington OF Hiawatha and c:
+. Stone of Peabody as an additional
committee to go before the commission
and ask for a larger appropriation The
commission, it is stated. will be in To-
There are a number of reasons why the
worlds fair commission made no larger
QlrGCJ APPROPRIATION LOT i've SIOCk-
In the first place there are numerous
industries and departments recurring ap-
preparations, and in most of them the
commission must itself look after the ex-
hibit because the exhibitors get no direct
benefits from the exhibit In agriculture.
for instance. the farmers who give their
big corn and wheat and alfalfa for the
Kansas agricultural booth will get no di-
rect returns from it. but the state as
whole will get the benefit. The same is
probably true of the mineral exhibit and
a number of others. Nobody gets any
personal benefit from the educational ex-
hibit On the other hand the live stock
breeders and the manufacturerS will get
a great deal of personal advertising,
which is in itself great incentive to
manufacturers. at least to make exhibits
In addition to that. the live stock de-
partment is the only one in which cash
prizes are offered by the fair manage
ment. For live stock about $250,OOO in
prizes are offered
GOVERNOR BAIBEY'S PLAN.
Gov. Bailey says he believes tho offer
to duplicate all prizes won from the
world S fair mana cement is the best one
the Kansas commission could have made
to the live stock men in order to get a
II don't care if they should win S5O.000.' -
said the governor today. 1T would be
the best advertisement the state could
have. and if the commission didn't have
I would recommend that the next legis-
lature pay them, and it would be money
would be wen to expend state money to
take a lot of mediocre stock there that
couldn't win a prize"
VISIT POULTRY SHOW.
The evening session Of the breeders
association was largely devoted to the
hen During the evening Colonel J. w.
F. Hughes, secretary of the State Poul-
try association, took the breeders to
visit the chicken show in the Audi
forum, and one of the two papers read
at the evening session was by George
Gillies editor of the Poultry Gazette,
on The Kansas Poultry Industry" Mr..
Gillies dwelt on the Importance of pOul-
try as an adjunct of the farm, and the
great strides which have been made by
the poultry industry in recent years.
How to Winter the Beef Steer and
Make Him Gain One Hundred Pounds
or More and Pay for the Extra Care
and Feed With Profits" was the some
what lengthy subject discussed in a pa
per prepared by A. F. Johnson of
Hutchinson. Mr.. Johnson is one of the
successful Kansas feeders. He was not
able to be present in person but sent
his paper and it was read by Assistant
Secretary Graham His idea of the way
to make money in feeding cattle is to
feed cattle which will give returns, and
this kind, he argued, is high bred stock.
| 1t requires just as much work and just
as much feed to carry a mongrel
through the winter as 1t does a high
grade animal, and when spring comes
the chances are the mongrel will not
have advanced in value anywhere near
as much as the high grade animal.
The papers on "A Matter of Bust
ness" by T. W. Morse az Kansas City,
and on 1.-The Future outlook for Pure
bred Cattle" by Colonel R. z. Edmond
son of Kansas City, were not read last
night, as their authors did not reach
Topeka in time.
! The programme of the Breeders as
ISOLATION tonight and tomorrow Will be
as follows;
Evening Session. o'clock.
] nj 10
haitian, profe ssor of agriculture, Kan
sas State Agricultural college.
"The Great Factory''-Col. Chas. F.
/ Mills, secretary live stock department,
Louisiana Purchase exposition.
stock Foods''-A general discussion:
! (a) What Benefit, if Any, Do We Get
from the Use of Stock Foods, So
called?" Cb) How Can We Get Back
! t. We