The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-07
They Will Begin to Arrive in
Force Tomorrow.
Twenty-First Annual Meeting
Will Open Monday.
TALK ON LIVE TOPICS.
President Waters Will Discuss
High Price of Meat.
G. w. McCampbell Will Tell of
Feeding Horses.

Tomorrow the members Of the Kan
sas Improved Stock Breeders associa-
ton will begin to arrive in anticipation
OF the twenty-first annual meeting of
the organization which will commence
at 10 o'clock Monday in the knights
and Ladies Of Security hall. and pres
ent indications are that there will be
between two and three hundred stock
men here.
The meeting will be of especial in
terest to the breeders of stock, for the
reason that soTne legislation will be
proposed by the members of the organ
1zation touching on stallion registry
question ana the use of anti-hog
cholera serum.
President II. J. Waters, of the State
Agricultural college, will have some
thing to say on the much discussed
topic of the high price of meats, and
his paper will be different.
President Waters has made an ex-
haustive study of the question. He
has gathered information from 700
farmers, which will enable him to give
some Interesting figures. The title Of
his paper will be, Should the Ameri-
can Farmer Become Meat Packer?'
In this same connection T. P. Patter-
SON. assistant in the department of ami
NAL husbandry at the agricultural col
lege, will carve three beef animals,
from the standpoint of the canner, and
those who want medium or fine quail
ty of meat.
There will be & number of papers of
special interest to the breeders Of hogs.
The Influence of the Sire on the
Herd will be the topic of a paper
by o. ]. Read, the new professor of
dairy husbandry at K. S. A. G..
Prof. r. J. KinZer who is at present
secretary of the Kansas stallion regis
try board will read paper on 1.-The
Kansas Stallion Registration Law"
Beef Production on Farm.
J. G. Haney, superintendent of the
Deming ranch at Oswego, will dis
cuss Beef Production on the Farm. u
B. o. Cowan, assistant secretary of the
American Shorthorn Breeders asso-
citation, is down for a paper on 1.-THE
Cattle
Feeding and Care of Horses" will
be discussed by Prof. c. w. McCamp-
bell of Fort Riley, who has expert
mented with 500 horses.
There will be much to interest the
breeders of swine. J. G. Arbuthnot Of
Cuba, Kansas. who has just sold $20,.
900 worth of swine will tell how he
did it. DR.. E. F. Kubin will give 6
lecture and demonstration in connec-
Samuel Drybread of Elk City will dis
cuss THE Duroc Jersey as the Hos
for the Western Farmer" Roy John
stone of South Mound will speak or
Breeding the Big Type of POLAND
Chinas."
stock Raising and Home Building
| is the title of a paper which will bt
read by Dewitt C. Wing, associate
editor of the Breeders Gazette. Johr
| c. Snyder of Topeka will speak Oh
| ''The Past, Present and Future O.
| Poultry
One of the papers of extreme inter
| est to the stockmen will be that which
| will be read by C. w. McCampbell O
Manhattan, Kansas, who has recent.
| experiments in feeding horses that ha
ever been attempted. At Fort Rile.
he has been feeding 976 head o
| horses, and necessarily has some valu
able information to give out.
The sessions of the organization will
| continue until Wednesday evening
when at o'clock the annual banque
| guests. The state board of agricul
| ture will begin it's meetings in tn
| Knights and Ladies of Security hall a
4 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon.
| Senator H. W. Avery of Wakefield
president of the association, will Off
ciate at the meeting Monday morn
| ing, but on account of the assem- blins
of the legislators. the remaining ses
| sions will be presided over by Vic
| President James Mains of Oskaloosa.
Following is the program for Mon
day:
MORNING, 10 O'CLOCK.
(Knights and Ladies of Security Hall
| corner Seventh and Kansas avenue.)
] Meeting of the board of directors.
Appointment of committees.
AFTERNOON, 2 O'CLOCK.
| (Knights and Ladies of Security Hall.