The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-10-23
SOME HORSE FACTS
Or. McCampbell Urges Kansas
Breeders to Improve Their
Live Stock.
COLT SHOWS ARE ADVOCATED
Agricultural College Professor Be-
!ieves Them Good Means of
Accusing Interest of Farmers

kansas farmers have more money
invested in horses than in all other
classes of stock combined.
ut costs more money to raise and
maintain horse than any other kind
of farm live stock.
High class draft horses are in
greater demand and will sell at great
er profit than other classes of farm
live stock.
Common and inferior horses are
less in demand and sell at greater
loss than any other class of farm
stock.
LESS Improvement has been made
in horses than in any other class of
farm live stock"
These are some of the facts given
by DR.. C. W. McCampbeH, assistant
professor of animal husbandry in the
Kansas State Agricultural college, in
emphasizing the Importance to Kan
sas farmers of holding colt shows.
1.-The colt show idea is spreading
rapidly in Kansas" says Doctor Nc
Campbell ct is one of the best
means of arousing interest. The col
lege is always ready to make sugges-
ions ana arrange programs
1.-The best time Of year for holding
colt shows is in October and the early
part of November. There is now lit
tie time for preparation, but with the
proper energy and backing a credit
able show may be out on this season.
"At this time of year the colts are
usually weaned and broken to halter,
and can be displayed to the best ad-
vantage"
Special stress is placed upon the
Importance of having a competent
judge.
New College for LaWrence.-The f1f-
ty-seventh annual convention of the
Kansas Christian Missionary Society
closed here with the appointment of
a committee to draw up plans for the
establishment of Christian college at
Lawrence. Regular courses probably
will be given for the training of min
listers and missionaries. The commit
tee will report it's findings at the next
meeting of the society, which will be
held next spring at independence. Kas.
These officers were elected: Presi-
dent, Dr.. w Young, Hutchinson;
vice presidents, o. L. Cook, Topeka;
Clifford Rash, Lyons; NJ. Lee Sorey,
Emporia; C. w. Cooper, Bonner
Springs; Duncan MacFarian, Holton;
C. W. Gould, Lawrence; corresponding
secretary, George E. Lyon, Topeka;
treasurer, J. d. Zimmerman, Topeka.
Dead in a Motor Accident.-Mrs. S.
D. Waynick, As years old, wife Of a
EoIa q
Santa Fe Railroad at Wellington, was
killed when her motor car struck a
culvert a mile south of town and over
turned
Saline County Pioneer Dead.-Mrs.
Lofts GROCER, Is years old, widow of
the late DR.. Jacob GROCER, a pioneer
physician of Saline county, is dead.
The Grogers came to Saline county in
the early SOS.
A 117-Pound Pumpkin.-James Van
Dyne, resident six miles east of indie
pendence, this fall raised the prize
pumpkin of Montgomery county. 1t
weighed 1T pounds and is seven feet
in circumference.
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Dixie to Reclaim 1, 300 Acres.-After
spending two days inspecting the sew
eral proposed high water routes across
the Marias 'des Cygnes bottoms, State
Engineer Gearhart reported to the
Pleasanton Comm srcia1 Club the route
that he deemed best. 1t calls for
dixie that will reclaim 1900 acres of
fertile lands from overflow and at the
same time provide dry road. The
land owners are ready to begin at
once to organize and build the dixie.
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Promoter Dead-A. G. Stitch, pio-
neer banker and former mayor of In
dependence, is dead in independence
of Bright's disease. He had been in
i'll health several months. Mr.. Stitch
was SO years old.
The Kansas Hostess Resigns.-Al-
bert T. Reid, president of the commits
sion in charge of the Kansas Building
and exhibit at the Panama-Pacifc Elk
position, received telegram recently
from Mrs Effie Hiatt Vantuyl, in
which she tenders her resignation as
hostess at the Kansas Building. Mrs.
Vantuyl suffered from severe electri-
time has been i'll.
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Another PeIIagra Death. - Mrs.
Maude Eggleston, 81 years old, is dead
at Columbus of pellagra, making the
second death to occur from that cause
In Columbus within the last month
and the fourth in this vicinity in lit
tie more than year.
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A New Postmaster at Lawrence
The first Democratic postmaster in
Lawrence in seventeen years, c. c..
Seewir, took charge of the office re-
Gently Seewir was owner of an In
dian novelty store here before his ap-
pointment.
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To Enlarge Neodesha Refinery
The Standard Oil Company of Kansas
announced it will make improvements
in its refinery at Neodesha, to cost