The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-11
'ATEAR FOR HARRIS
Kansas Stock Breeders Mourn
His Passing.
Governor StubbS and President
Melville Offer Tributes.
BORMAN SEES FUTURE
Says Tide Will Soon Set Toward
the Farm.
M. A, Smith Tells How He Raises
Good Horses.
BORMAN SEES FUTURE


night that the formal opening of the
| twenty-f1rst annual session of the
Kansas Improved Stock Breeders as
sociation took place. The attendance
was not as good as was expected. there
being less than a hundred persons
present but it is anticipated that this
number will increase considerably
during today and tomorrow. A num-
Der of the prominent stock breeders
of the state have gone to Denver to
attend the national live stock meeting,
and the severity of the season has kept
others away.
Governor Stubs made the opening
address. 81 believe that there is no
class of men who have done more for
the state than the breeders have
done,'' said he. 'I always remember
when I first came to Kansas the kind
of hogs we used to have with pointed
noses and razor backs, that looked
more like race horses than anything
else.
''There has been a big change in
all classes of animals and it has been
the cause of making more comfort
| able homes. / suppose that the past
year has been the most prosperous one
in the history of the stock breeding in
Kansas.
Tribute to Col. Harris.
| .T can't help but deeply regret the
loss of one Of our members-Col. w.
A. Harris. Senator Harris performed
many conspicuous services for Kan
sas in political and business ways.
Only a short time before his death he
| performed service for the state that
was one of the most important things
| that has happened during the year,
and that was the securing of President
Henry J. Waters as president of the
| Kansas State Agricultural college. Mr..
Waters was pointed out by the gov
ernment as one of the three best men
for the position in the United States.
| Col. Harris was on the committee and
it was largely through his efforts that
the state secured President Waters
T. President MeIville's Address.
| President Melville of the live stock
association in his address spoke as
follows in regard to the late Senator
Harris:
''Col. Harris, that polished diamond
in the crown of Kansas. How his
many grand qualities flash and shine
as memory lights them up. AS a stu
dent taking front rank; a soldier
filling an important position while yet
a mere boy; as an engineer exploring
I the iSthmus for a canal route; or
lending his aid to the construction of
the Kansas Pacific railway; as a
breeder of Shorthorn cattle pushing
his breed and his farm to the front;
as a friend, citizen, a congressman.
| a member of the senate; always doing
his best and discharging his duty as
4 he saw it, he was absolutely honest to
every duty, every trust, every work
that was his to do. He was never so
much at home as when he was on his
farm at Lfnwood and his one great
ambition was to go back to his farm
after he had left it. He was a great
man and truly it was good to have
been able to call him friend -
Bird Makes Response.
The response to Governor Stubs ad-
dress was given by w. A. S. Bird of
Topeka who said in part: Agriculture
stands at the head of all Industries in
| the United States. You go east, south.
north or west and everything depends
upon agriculture We are peculiarly
situated here in Kansas, removed from
the extremes of both winter and sum-
mer weather. and it is great stock
country.
81 believe that the prairie grass in
Kansas is better adapted to the stock
of the state than any other food un-
less it is alfalfa. If you could bring
your boys and girls to these meetings
/ 1 believe that it would be to the in
terest of the stock industry of the state.
|, Il believe that the place for the old
, man, the old woman. the boys and girls
! It is said that 65 per cent of the peo-
pie of the United States are living in
J cities or villages and yet they are COM
planning of the, high prices of food.
Inc I0rIn nome can De maze more
: pleasant than it is. The farm school in
some cases should be made better than
it is. We might have fewer and better
schools. We ought to have more people
raising better stock All we need is a
little more energy and a little better
care for the stock.
"If you call a special session (turn-
: ing to Governor Stubbs) 1 hope that
the legislature will pass a bill appro-
priating money for use at the State
! RI ri n11fi iOy,
of hog serum
Il hope that agriculture will be taught
| in some of our schools instead of Greek
!, and Latin which does the boys and girls
| no good
Expects Tide to Change.
There will be a time when the tide
: from the country will turn and the
people will again leave the city for che
farm was the statement of T. A.
Bormau in connection with an address
= that came next on the program on
Farm Dairying." when that time
9 comes" he continued. the owner of
5 large farms will have to divide his
lands and farming and all agricultural
, pursuits will become more intensified
1--WE are dairying in Kansas at pres
ent with a low standard of COW. She
doesn't average 300 pounds of butter
fat as do the cows in some of the other
states. In my opinion our cows are not
S so poor as is our system of feeding.
e am in sympathy with the dairy bred
Y COW.
"A farm in Kansas is not farm un-
! | less there are cows on that farm. The
r | farmers are realizing a good profit
1 | from milking.
D Now let us begin with the common
s cows 1 believe that a man could &C
t through the Kansas herds and select
n good cows which would enable him tt
0 dairy properly. A good dairy sire
lwhose ancestors have been known tt