The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-03
ROBSON SLATED.
VIII BE New President Board Of
Agriculture.
To Succeed Captain Churchill
Who Is Dead.
MEETING NEXT WEEK.
Thirty-fOurth Annual Session
TO Begin Soon.
An Unusually Strong Program
In Arranged.
NETTING NEXT WEEK.

It is practically certain that J. w.
Robson, the new member of the
board of railroad commissioners, will
be elected president of the state board
Of agriculture to succeed John II.
Churchill.
Mr.. Robson is now vice president
of the board of agriculture, and it is
customary to advance the first vice
president to the presidency. There is
no opposition to Mr.. Robson so far
as known
When the state horticultural society
was in session there was movement
to elect Mr.. Robson president in
place of Fred Wellhouse. but it was
nipped in the bud by Mr.. Robson s
friends, who stated that he was slated
for the presidency of the state agri-
cultural society. and could not very
well hold the two Offices.
The thirty-fourth annual meeting
of the state board of agriculture viii
be held here from January II to
January IS. The day sessions win be
9n the supreme court chamber and the
evening sessions presumably in Repre-
sentative hall, as it is the rule for the
legislature to grant the hall for the
night meetings.
The programme this year is unusu-
ally strong 1t offers all the oppor-
tunity to hear several of the best
known and learned men in agricul-
tural lore in the United States For
instance, that premier dairy author
1ty, Ex-Governor Hoard of Wisconsin,
and editor Of Hoard's Dairyman, the
most widely read journal of its kind,
will address the meeting at it's Thurs
day afternoon session on matters of
Vital interest to those who have to
do with cows and their produce. His
subject is The Man Behind the Cow,
and If THE man" is there and gives
an attentive ear he can scarcely fail
10 learn something to his advantage.
If, however, any one address could
be singled out to feature" that on
s'Corn and Corn Improvement would
probably be awarded that distinction,
for the sole reason, If no other, of the
OvershadOwing Importance of the
crop to agricultural prosperity and
the com paratively new and far-reach-
ing developments concerning its
breeding and Improvement. This will
be an illustrated lecture by r. G.
Holden. professor Of agronomy in the
Iowa, state college. Holden is one of
the most distinguished promoters of
this science Last spring it was he
who made a tour in Iowa over the
lines of the Rock Island railroad
preaching the gospel of corn from
the rear platform of a special train
to those who had gathered in advance
We're to be made. Bringing this man
to Kansas to impart his wealth of
knowledge should be worth more to
the state than the entire cost of the
board of agriculture since its begin
ming Another leader who will be
here Is Prof. Thos Shaw, editor of
The Farmer, St Paul, MINI. He was
1or many years professor of animal
husbandry in the Minnesota school of
agriculture and earlier in Canada. He
will tell of Breeding Live Stock on
the Farm
Secretary Wilson of the United
States department of Agriculture is to
be represented by G. G.. Elliott who is
to deal with the drainage problems of
4
perative by the past two years sur
plus of water.
Other addresses will be by Fred De
Land, telephone expert and man
ager, of Pittsburg, Pa, on "Eliminat-
Ing Isolation and Distance From Farm
Life" Rev Chas. NJ Sheldon, on
What I Would Do If I Were a
Farmer James Glover. of Bluff Citv
Kan. on Making Country Villages
More Beautiful" Prof. M. A. Barber
OF the State university, on ''The Trans
instability of tuberculosis to MAN.
w J. Kennedy, expert in animal hus-
bandry, United States department Of
agriculture, on Irish Methods of
Live stock Improvement" Chief JUS
tice Johnston viii read a paper dis
cussing the problem of Good Roads, "
and the women have a place on the
prOgT anime at two sessions. Thursday
evening Miss Bertha Helen Bachelor
OF the Kansas city manual training
school, viii read a paper entitled
THE Relation of Cookery to Diges-
ton" and Friday evening Mrs.
Emma E For+ r., of MarysviiIe win
present treaties on THE Practical
Conduct of Life"
Governor Hoch, on behalf of the
state, will deliver the address OF wei
come at the Wednesday evening ses-
sion and Mayor BergundthaI will ex-
tend the hospitality of the CITY of To
pekar and owing to the death of Presi
dent Churchill, whose tragic end is
just learned, Vice President Robson
viii respond and preside
The railroads have granted Al. onan
7ate to all of virtually a one-fare for
>1he round trip. and the Indications
point to record breaking attendance.
As Secretary Coburn says Whose
ever will may GOMEZ