The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-13

months of age there is more profit
in it than to feed until the animal is
weighs 1900 pounds. With the free
| range and cheap pasture gone, profit
| in holding beef for three and four
years for fattening is gone. These
We're the statements emphasized by E
L. Barrier of Eureka, in his address
| on Baby Beef delivered at the
morning session of the meeting.
The problem confronting us to-
day." said Mr.. Barrier, is how to
get the most pounds of good beef at
the least cost. AS the gains of the
first eighteen months in the baby beef
| cost about S1.65 per Hundred less
than the gains from eighteen to thir-
| ty-six months under tbs present con-
ditions the need of turning baby beef
over to the packer at an early age is
very apparent"
Continuing Mr.. Barrier outlined
various plans of cheap and economic
| feed best suited for the rapid fatten-
| ing of baby beef. In closing he said:
| Economic necessity from the stand
/ point of the stockman, coupled with
| the present day butchers demand for
a handy weight carcass of the choicest
| quality, means that the finest product
| of the feeders skill is Baby beef
! P. w. Goebel, president of the Com
mercial National bank, and vice pres
ident of the American Bankers asso-
citation, Kansas City, Kan, opened the
afternoon session with talk on ''Ru-
raj Credits" This was followed by an
address by Theo. C. Mueller, Topeka
banker, on The Twentieth Century
| Banker and Farmer"
| Cooperation that Works was the
subject of an address by ]. w. Short
| hill, secretary Nebraska Farmers Co
operative Grain and Live Stock asso-
citation, York. Neb. ION Behalf of
Better Roads was the subject of the
! last address of the afternoon session
by D. Ward King, of good road fame.
| That King Road Drag.
Mr. King s1etched briefly the story
of the King split-road-drag He told
of his experiment with various imple-
ments beginning thirty years ago on
the muddy roads and the final discov-
cry of the first home made-split-road
drag. Now the drag is known the
world over. Aside from explaining the
proper use of his drag, Mr.. King Of
| fered some excellent advice for the
proper care of the roads.
keep the travel IN the middle" he
said. Develop a crown slowly and
never put on at one time enough dirt
to drive the travel to one side. Never
break the hard, tough crust that COW
ers every Travelled wagon way. That
hard crust in the center of the wagon
road is a most valuable good road as
set, and any man VINO breaks that
crust into pieces, or covers it with
eight or eighteen inches of loose dirt
commits crime against the COM
munity, and the day is not far distant
when he will be fined or thrown into
Jail"
Good Crowd Out.
Despite the near blizzard a good
audience composed of two-thirdS OF
the fifty delegates to the meeting and
"A number of Topeka people interested
in farming turned out last evening at
the first session of the board. At this
| DELEGATES
rived on morning trains and still
larger number of Topeka people were
present. J. c. Mohler, secretary OF
the board, says the meeting has been
a great success taking into cons1dera-
| ton the zero weather.
| Standardizing, warehOuSing and
marketing the crops so as to serve the
legitimate interests of farmers and
consumers alike, is the I ost pressing
problem before the agricultural de-
partment at present This was the
declaration made by Carl Vrooman,
assistant secretary of agriculture, in
his address on the Business End of
Farming delivered last evening.
Land Tenure.
"Arlong the factors that stand out
prominently in this problem" said Mr..
Vrooman, ARE rural credits, a salts
factory system of land tenure. the CO.
operative purchase of supplies and
facilities for marketing farm produce.
These are subjects upon which the
federal department must do a lot of
constructive work before the problems
involved are solved satisfactorily"
Mr.. Vrooman also laid stress upon
the fact that a large number of our
farmers are diminishing the produc-
tivity of their soil and reducing their
yield through careless and short
employing some of the more success
full scientific methods was another
reason given, and the speaker asserted
that the facilities for obtaining capt.
tai for such purposes will not be what
they should be until we have worked
out for ourselves a satisfactory sys-
tenn of rural credits
Governor Capper delivered an adj
dress of welcome, followed by a sim
liar address on behalf of Topeka by
Mayor Jay E. House and a response
by George B. Ross. president of the as
sociation.
WaShburn Glee Club.
Music will be furnished by the
Washburn Glee club at tonight's ses-
sion. followed by an address, "A Mes
sage From the South" by Mrs. G. H.
Mathis. of Alabama, and another ad-
dress on THE Modern Traction En-
CINE" by A. A Potter, dean division
of engineering and professor OF
steam and gas engineering, Agricul-
tural college, Manhattan.
George A. Dean, entomologist, Kan
sas State Agricultural college and ex-
pertinent station, Manhattan. will open
Friday mornings session with an ad-
dress on What Can Be Done This
Winter to Prevent the Hessian Fly
This will be followed by an address
by Dean Jardine, director state ex-
, pertinent station, Manhattan. or
How Can We Increase the Yield OF
Wheat" The remainder of the morn
ing session will be devoted to Ter
Minute Corn Talks by Practical Corr
Growers" The speakers will be LeRo5
Ayers, Allen county: John S. Ellen
becker, Marshall county: NJ c. Hin
man, Reno county; John r. Chitten-
; den, Ellis county.
Election of Officers.
: The afternoon will be consumed ir
} the election of officers and members