The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-20
1T SHOWS UP WELL
Topeka State Fair Compared
With Hutchinson Show.
G. c. Wheeler Gives Strong
Points of Both Shows.
CATTLE, HORSES AND SHEEP
These We're Big Features on
Topeka Grounds.
Department Here
Also Had Glass.

A comparison of the Topeka and
Hutchinson state fairs by G. c. Wheel.
er, the associate editor of the Kansas
| Farmer, who until recently was a pro-
fessor at the Kansas State Agricultural
| college. shows that in many depart
ments the former exposition excelled
the one in the city of sand and salt.
| Mr.. Wheeler writes solely from the
| standpoint of exhibits and does not
| take into account the superiority of the
big concrete display buildings at To-
peka over the less pretentious strlic-
| lures at Hutchinson.
1t is noted in the article that the
displays of swine and machinery We're
larger at Hutchinson than at Topeka
but the writer states that in cattle
horses. sheep and general farm prod
ucts the exhibits at Topeka We're SUI
perior
The article reads in part as follows:
The counties of the Hutchinson. ter
ritory apparently were not as progress
s1ve as the counties in the northeastern
part OF he state and very few collect
i've county exhibits were shown. The
L,eayenworth county display which was
shown at the Topeka fair the week be-
fore, was probably the largest and best
county exhibit shown at Hutchinson.
Better at Topeka.
"The cattle show was simply a re-
production of the show at Topeka.
with several herds dropped out In
the beef classes the most conspicuous
herd dropping out was that of j. c.
Van Nice of Richland, Kan, who made
such a strong showing of Polled
Durhams at Topeka.
The dropping out of herds was
especially noticeable in the dairy di-
vision of the cattle show. The larger
exhibitors, such as Wilcox & Stubs of
Des Moines, Ia, showing CIuernseys:
J. B. smith the Jersey breeder of
Platte City, Mo-; H. F. Erdley of Hol-
ton, Kan, showing Jerseys; and the
Butter Bred Holsteins of J. p Mast
of Scranton, had moved from Topeka
to Hutchlnson, but apparently none of
the territory directly tributary to
Hutchinson had made the effort to get
out and show their cattle as was done
by the smaller dairy breeders around
Topeka. .
"A very good display of sheep was
on exhibition. consisting mainly of the
exhibits shown the previous week at
Topeka, with one strong Shropshire
flock left out.
Showing in Horses
THE horses On exhibition at Hutch
inson were housed in four or five
barns which made it more difficult to
study the exhibit carefully than at the
Topeka fair where the whole show was
easily taken care of in the one large
concrete barn. The first impression
the visitor got in walking into the
barns the first day of the fair, was that
he was visiting a reproduction of the
Topeka fair since all the exhibitors
there had decorated their stalls with
ribbons won at Topeka
Some of the smaller farm breeders
who made some splendid showings {
likewise did not show at the
Hutchinson fair. These smaller breed
ers might have had their places filled |
by similar farm breeders from the
southern and central part of the state, |
but the smaller breeders did not come
TO the front so strongly as they did |
around Topeka --.-