The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-11
Miss l.. A. Krigbaum Attending
Big StOckmen's Meeting.
Milks Seven Cows Every Morn
ing-Just Like a Man.
WEARS BOOMERS At WORK
c. S. Goldsmith and F. G. Lap
tad Make Addresses.
McFadden of Chicago Outlines
1915 Futurity Show.

The only woman member of the
Kansas Improved Stock Breeders as
ISOLATION is attending the meetings in
Topeka daily and enjoying them. She
is Miss L. A. Krigbaum, one of the
few women farmers in the state and
lives four miles southeast of Topeka.
Sure 1 like the meetings" said Miss
Krigbaum. i've been coming for five
years and every time 1 learn some
thing new. The members are all
friends of mine and it's just about like
a family reunion
Miss Krigbaum has a 40 acre farm
and farms it herself She milks seven
Jersey cows every morning and raises
chickens, and works as any masculine
farmer would. Many Topeka clubs
buy her butter and chickens and she
believes that they are the most reliable
source of an income on the farm.
Five years ago she commenced
farming her fathers property and
wore skirts while working. The in
convenience of the dresses gave her
the idea of making blue denim bloom
ers to wear during working hours and
/ she found that they were much more
comfortable and consequently wears
them yet-on the farm
Il suppose people think it looks
| funny but when you are farming
you've got to work and looks don't
count so much,'' she says. Besides
they are the most convenient wearing
apparel in the world"
That the bull is half the herd and
! standard bred bull is absolutely nee
essary if the farmer is going to have
any herd at all was the gist of the
/ paper read this morning by c. s.
Goldsmith, superintendent of the
dairy farm at the state hospital
Front Counts in Selling.
! Front in the selling of pure bred
livestock counts as much on the farm
as it does with the groceryman who
keeps spotless display in order to
sell his foodstuffs, according to Fred
G. Laptad's paper on Selling Pure
Bred Livestock" Take the prospec-
tive buyer home and let him eat some
/ juicy brown fried chicken" said Mr..
4 Laptad Have the place cleaned up
and the animals in a nice shape. The
surroundings will add a few dollars
f on the price and make the animal
really worth more"
McFadden on Poland Chinas.
William McFadden, of Chicago, sec
| rotary of the American Poland China
Record, made the principal talk of the
Z afternoon. Mr. McFadden is in To-
+ peIta in the interests of a futurity
show for 1915 In his address he said
explained the purpose.
The futurity show was started four
years ago by the Daily Live Stock
World of Chicago and was adapted
from the race horse plan he said. 1T
ran two years and was then taken
I over by the Record. The plan is to
have the state fairs put up $3.50 for the
futurity show which is placed by the
Record. Twenty herds must nomi-
nate which means that each of them
pay So for the purpose of exhibiting.
The Record guarantees $500 in prizes
/ as soon as the twenty herds are nomi-
mated and the $3.50 paid by the fair
association.
The futurity nominees pay 81 a
| litter the first of april and at June l.
August l the nominees have to pay 81
for each fall pig, and So for each
spring litter. At the fair eight places
are awarded to the spring pigs and six
to the fall pigs, $500 being paid in pre-
miums for the springs and S210 for
the falls. The eight places receive
premiums of s35, $50, 500, SIS, $40,
So. 81 and So.
'Futurity shows were held in IS
states last year as far west as Idaho,
south to Texas, and east to Indiana
Another speaker of the afternoon
was H. j. Cottle of Berryton on the
subject, Selecting and Fitting Hogs
for the Show Ring" Mr.. Cottle ad-
| vocated the feeding of warm slOp to
the growing squealers and the giving
it to them a good way from the shell
ter SO that they would get enough eX-
ercise on wipter mornings. The exhib-
itor must be good judge himself
and know how to care for hogs, he
said; there is no money in fair pre-
miums but the state fair is a mirror
that raises standards of breeds and
prices
Other speakers of the afternoon
were Otis e. Hail. H. B. Walter. P. H
Ross, L. n. McAfee, Mrs. H. ]. Cottle
and DR.. B. w Murphy. The sessions