The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-25
COMING Topeka
Delegates Numbering 1,5OO to
Farm Congress in Fall.
Representatives to Be Elected
From Over State.
LIVING COST To HOG CHOLERA
Nineteen Topics Chosen for
Open Discussion.
Educators and Experts With
National Reputation.
LIVING COST TO HOG CHOLERA

In all probability, late in October, To-
peka will be the host of 1,500 delegates
to the Kansas Agricultural and Indus
trial Congress- Next week the execu-
tive committee of this organization will
meet in this city to choose the location
for this convention of farmers, busi-
ness men, college experts and trans
portation representatives. 1t is planned
to hold tie conclave in a 2-day session
either in Topeka or Wichita Owing
to the fact that the meeting last year
was held in the southwestern section
of the state, it is said that the COM
mittee favors Topeka.
The Kansas Agricultural and Indus
trial Congress is the we'll known bet
terment association, instituted last
year by j. r. Koontz, general freight
agent of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe railway. General Freight Agent
Koontz believed that general agricul-
tural and Industrial conditions in the
state could be improved by a con-
ference of men interested from all
parts of Kansas and the call brought
LOSS representa- tives to Hutchinson last
fall. The meetings were addressed by
leading educators, agricultural experts
and transportation men of the country.
This year the entire organization has
been turned over to well known state
agriculturists and industrialiSts. Edwin
Taylor of Edwardsvil1e is president;
dent; w. Y. Morgan of Hutchinson,
secretary and Scott Hopkins of Topeka,
treasurer. The executive committee is
composed of ]. NJ. Miller of the Kansas
State Agricultural college; T. A. Bor-
man, editor of the Kansas Farmer of
Topeka; Mrs. Cora w. Bullard of
Tonganoxie; Mrs. George Plumb of
Emporia and ]. r. .Koontz, general
freight agent of the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe railway at Topeka.
Delegates From Over State.
In the Topeka meeting delegates
will be elected from farmers oranges,
Institutes and unions. From CONNER
organizations. From live stock asso-
Citations, b.. colleges, and transportation
companies. 1t is anticipated that full
ly 1,5oo delegates will be here
Subjects that range all the way
from the high cost of living to hog
cholera will be. discussed. Already
the committee in charge of the pro-
gram has set aside a list of 10 sep
arate topics for discussion at the
meeting this fall.
When the association was organ
lied last summer, farmers and skep-
tica1 business. men. over the state
shifted at the activity of the railroads
and kept an. eye on the organization
expecting to find a bug under the
chip. Then came a call from 43 rep
resentative farmers over the state.
This relieved the tension. Soon, state
officials, college experts, educators,
business men and hundreds of Kan
sans, including the president of the
state board of agriculture, l. l.. Diesen
and the president of the state agrlcul-
tural college at Manhattan, J. H.
Waters, entered the plan.
Then all suspicion Of attempts to
raise freight rates and take off train
service were thrown aside and the
congress at Hutchinson has been re-
puted as the greatest business gath
ering of Kansas for the purpose of
improving crops, bettering markets
and enlarging business and agricul-
tura1 opportunities in the history OF
the state.