The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-07
Start Their Weeks Session OF
Conferences Today.
Live Stock Men Hold Interest.
ing Meeting.
PEARL PAGETT OF BELOI1
He Tells of Fate and Shrink
age of 30O-POund Hog.
Board of Agriculture to Meet
Wednesday.

The question of raising more pork
ers" in order to make up for the short
age that the packing houses report was
the paramount question under discus
sion at this mornings session of the
meeting of the Kansas Improved Stock
Breeders association in Representative
hall
The first speaker, Pearl Pagett, secre-
tary of the Mitchell county fair, of
Beloit, complained that after a three
hundred pound hog has passed through
the hands of numerous middle-men
there is but a mere sucking left for
the farmer.
1.-THE question of raising hogs in Kan
sas seems insignificant at first sight"
he said, but when we take in consid-
GRAFTON the fact that a 300-pound porker
that is produced by the farmer has to
pass through the hands of shippers,
railroads, commission men, the packer,
wholesaler, travelling man, and at last
to the consumer, a generous slice Is
taken off of him, and we consider our
selves lucky if our 300-pound hog has
not diminished to a sucking pig.
During the year 1912 Kansas City
was short 1880 cars of livestock.
Pork and the Laboring Man.
IF we are to produce pork at price
that the laboring man can afford to eat
We must produce it as inexpensively as
possible. Among the things 1 would
suggest is to breed your sows so you
will have a car of fat hogs on the
market at one time. Ship them your
self to some reliable commission mer-
chant and if you do not get the top
price find out the reason and correct
the error the next time"
Holmer L. Faulkner of Jamesport,
Mo-, spoke in part as follows: How
do I raise my hogs without cholera2
Well, the first thing 1 do is to keep
them free from worms. 1t is natural
for our Missouri pigs to have worms
AS natural as it is for a Kansas
grasshopper to hop. do this by feed
ing them a good worm eradicator.
II know all about your coal oil for
lice. 1 have tried it to my own satis-
faction. 1t will kill the lice all right
and the hogs too dip my hogs
every two or three weeks, except for
about three months in the winter sea-
SON. 1 never did hear of choera break
ing out in a herd of hogs that were
well taken care of.
81 am not in sympathy with this So
called simultaneous treatment that
commercial serum companies all over
the country are advocating. We need
legislation against this virus blood be-
ing sent out. 1t should be stopped. If
cholera gets in your neighborhood
vaccinate your hogs with the immune
serum"
Sanitation vs.. Hog Cholera.
Sanitation is the proper method of
preventing hogs from dying of cholera
and not serum" said w. A. s. Bird
of Topeka in the discussion that fol-
lowed the reading of the paper. II
believe that instead of spending mill
lions over the country in the manufac-
ture of serum, thousands should be
spent in sanitation"
One or two members approved OF
the socalled simultaneous hog SER
um method.
This afternoon Alfred Docking of
Manhattan spoke on Live Stock in
the Old Country" DIR. George G.
Mosher, chairman of the medical milk
commission of Kansas City. Mo. gave
an address on 1.-The City Milk supply"
Professor w. A. Cochel of the state
agricultural college spoke on En-
silage for Beef" d. L. Dawdy of Ar
rington was slated to read paper on
"Ensilage for Beef"
John A. Peck of Tecumseh spoke
Monday night on "The Condition ana
Prospects of the Kansas Farmer"
UNLESS we can keep the boy oil the
farm, and have the farming done by
owners instead of by tenants" he said,
"the tenant farmer is going to lower
the productive quality of the soil to
an extent that the farmer cannot feed
the world. The consolidated school
will not educate the farm boy clong
the right line. 1t will send him to
the city to swell the number of con-
ducerS.
Board of Agriculture Wednesday.
The first regular session of the meet
ing of the state board of agriculture
will be held in Representative hall
Wednesday evening at o'clock. Roll
call will take place at o'clock in the
afternoon.
The program for the stock breeders
meeting for tonight and Wednesday
follows:
Evening, o'clock, Representative
hall-"The Draft Horse in America"
W. s. Corsa, Whitehall, Ill; From
Trail to Trolley" w. L. Nelson. as
sistant secretary board of agriculture,
Columbia. Mo.
Wednesday morning, $3.50 o'clock
''The Recent Horse Epidemic" DR.. A.
F. Kinsley, vice president Kansas City
Veterinary college, Kansas City, Mo;
1.-THE Horse Epidemic and It's Possible
Control" DIR. F. P. Haslam. professor
of veterinary medicine, Kansas State
Agricultural college Manhattan. Kan
Afternoon. o'clock-'Horse Breed
ing" Frank b. Graham. president Gra-
ham Scientific Breeding school. Kan
sas City, Mo: report of committee:
election of officers; adjournment at
o'clock.
Evening, 9 o'clock-Annua1 dinner to
members and invited guests.
Baseball Meeting Postponed.