The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-13
Responsibility May Be Placed on
Mr.. COburn.
Members billboard of Agriculture
Favor This.
FOR THE STATE.
Farmers Discuss the Benefits to
Be Derived.
Ex- Governor HOArd'sAddresses
Prove Popular.

cial Kansas state fair was matter
which came up for discussion by the
members of the Kansas State Board
of Agriculture today.
There has been considerable talk
of placing the responsibility of the
management of the state fair upon the
officers of the board of agriculture
The plan has many advocates. and
it would seem to be most advisable"
said a prominent member of the
board. Everyone knows that any
undertaking carried out under the
i careful personal direction of F. d.
Coburn, the secretary of the board of
agriculture, would be done in a most
/ thorough and painstaking manner,
and the result would naturally be the
most creditable exposition possible to
be had with the amount of money
and the means at hand to work with"
The members of the Kansas board
of agriculture are practically unan-
imous that the big Kansas state fair
should be revived. The members as
individuals. and as farmers and citi-
zenS, are doing all in their power to
urge and influence legislation of some
sort which will have the ultimate re-
suit of the establishment of the fair
upon a sound and substantial basis.
The board has declined to officially
pass resolutions as coming from the
board asking the legislature to ap-
propriate money for aid for q fair,
OUT DIT the meeting TINS afternoon a
resolution was presented which out
lines the position of the members of
the board from an official standpoint.
The resolution recites the information
that many years ago the state fair was
conducted under the supervision of
the board of agriculture, and also re-
cites that for reasons which were
deemed sufficient the custom was
ago.
The resolution voices the sentiment
Of the board in this respect, that it
should appear that the board is
not seeking to have the management
of an official state fair conferred upon
the board, but that the board wants
1t known and understood that it will
not antagonize the plan if the citizens
in the legislature, decide that the plan
is advisable and best.
In fact, the members of the board
wish to have it understood that in the
event the legislature asks the board to
assume control of the management of
the fair and makes an appropriation
to carry out the work. the board will
be very glad to be the instrument OF
the people, and will do all within it's
power to make the annual expositions
the success and credit to the state that
they should be.
The Kansas State Improved Stock
Breeders association passed strong
resolutions urging the appropriation
of $4,000 annually for five years for
State Board of Agriculture could ac-
complish much in five years with an
appropriation of that character ex-
pended under the trained and careful
instruction of Secretary Coburn.
Ex-Governor W. D. Hoard. of Fort |
Atkinson, Wis, who has been here !
this week attending the meetings of
the stock breeders and the agricuI-
turists, has made a number of
speeches during the week
There has been an urgent demand |
from all those present to hear him at 1
every session. He leaves Topeka to- |
day and this morning a motion was |
made in the meeting, which developed /
mittee to be appointed to draft resoIu- |
tons thanking him for his timely and |
profitable talks on subjects of vital in
terest to the farmers
Mr.. Hoard is a man of great per- |
sonal magnetism and of strong char
acter, and his talks have been most
highly appreciated by the members of
the board who have heard him. He
complimented the men who were at
tending the meetings here this week,
and he declared that instead of the
omparatively small number present
there ought to be at least ten thou
sand Kansas farmers in session
He commented upon the fact that
the western farmers seemed to be
eager for information upon improved
methods of farming, and he noted a
western farmers as compared with
those of the east. He advised the
farmers not to scott at science, but to
profit by the results and teachings of
the men who are devoting their lives
to a study of advanced and improved
methods in various directions.
The subject of whether tubercu-
man was the principal topic under
consideration at the meeting this
morning
A comprehensive paper regarding
the research in that direction up to
the present time was read by Prof. NJ.
A Barber, of the State university of
Lawrence.
Prof. Barber discussed the various
discoveries by the different scientists
who have been studying that subject. |
Prof Barber declares that while it is
practically established that tubercu-
losis is rarely ever transmitted from
man to cows or only under the most
favorable circumstances for that
transmission, it is also equally as GER
tain that tuberculosis is transferred
from the COW to man.
Prof. Barber cited a number of in
stances and the results of numerous
experiments which tend to establish
the fact that tuberculosis is more
easily transmitted from cattle to in
fants or children than from cattle to
adults, although it is not to be under
stood that it is not an easy matter TO
transmit the disease to the adult. The
results of most experiments SO far
have not been conclusive in that there
is always the argument to be made
that the person suffering contagion of
tuberculosis believed to have been
transmitted from a COW, might have
the disease from other
sources. The results of the expert
ments show that there is no doubt
that contag1on from the COW is evil
dent, but the experiments have not vet
proven it beyond a shadow of doubt
or dispute. This is largely owing to