The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-11

and another to accommodate exhib-
itors of sheep. Both the sheep and
swine exhibits surpass those of pre-
vious years. Exhibitors spent the
morning in bare feet washing the
monstrous swine. looking over the ex-
hibits of their rivals and getting ac-
quainted.
In the Fine Arts building, superin-
tendents and assistant superintendents
of the culinary, art and textile depart
ments were preparing the largest
number of exhibits in years. There is
a total of 533 entries and 1000 eXhlb-
lima, Wichita and cities and towns
from the four corners of the state are
represented Mrs. Susie Endaly has
the largest number of entries, seventy
nine. Mrs. Geocge Boone, 1854 Clay
street, is next with about sixty en-
tries The entries of both ladies are
in = culinary department.
Big Agricultural Display.
P. E. Crabtree, superintendent of
the agricultural display in Agricul-
tural hall. estimated that there are
$500 entries The exhibits this year
are larger in quantity. better in quail
ity. better staged in more space than
ever before in the history of the fir,
he stated Tho the drouth has been
looked upon as killing the corn crop
t, a great extent. the exhibits or corn
are excellent. What exhibits there
are are eXceptlOndlly So'u ~ iC"
cereals, Sudan grass and feterita. are
being exhibited extensively. The lars-
est watermelons ever seen in topeka
are 9 display.
Big santa Fe Display
=. ,.ostIiness and scenic effect the
exhibit of the Santa Fe Railroad COM
many in Agricultural hall surpasses
all. The aim of the Santa Fe's exhibit
is TO indicate the various lines of the
road running through the greatest
| corn and wheat country in the United
States. A huge stack of wheat and
| corn has been built through which a
/ miniature train iS run. On one side
/ of the exhibit one may see the engine
while on the other side may be seen
a miniature observation car. huge
| electric light is hung directly over the
exhibit and it will be at its best in the
| evenings.
| Fifteen hundred birds are on dis
| play in the poultry barn, according to
Supt Thomas Owen. The poultry
show also surpasses those of previous
| years. Exhibitors have come to To-
| peka from Nebraska. Oklahoma, Iowa,
Arizona, Illinois, Missouri and Texas.
| The Buff Cochin exhibit is the largest.
A T Modlin of Topeka has the largest
| exhibit, 800 birds Earl Smiley of
Beaver Crossing. Neb., is next with an
! exhibit of 275 birds. Buck & Floyd
/ of Oklahoma City, have 200 birds here.
Cattle Barns OVerflowing.
Two barns are filled to overflowing
with exhibits of beef breeding cattle
steers and dairy cattle. There are 374
beef breeding cattle, thirty fat steers
and 1872 dairy cattle exhibited. The
exhibit this year is not quite as large
as it was at the 1915 fair, but the quail
ity is much better. Guernseys and
Ayrshires were not exhibited last year.
There are good exhibits of both breeds
! DR. of
Linwood has a herd of twenty-five o
| Guernseys while William Galloway of
Waterloo. Ia, has herd of fifteen.
The State Agricultural college at
Manhattan has a herd of nine steers.
The largest herd exhibited is that of
/ William Herkelman, of Elwood Iowa.
He has fourteen breeding cattle and
three steers. w. A. Forsyth, of Green
wood, has thirteen Shorthorns: A. ].
Jones, Great Bend. twelve: T. j. Dave.
Troy, twelve; Rapp Brothers. St Ed
wards, ten; Thompson Brothers, Car
J bondale, nine.
Big Auto Display.
l. J. Smith of Pleasant Hill, has
a herd of sixteen Herefords; r. H
Hazlett, FL Dorado. nineteen; w. L.
Jost, Kansas City, Mo, twelve Jesse
Engle and Sons Sheridan Mo
twelve; FIlauss Bros. Bendena, Kan.
eleven; Carl Miller. Bellevue, nine.
There are fourteen local automobile
dealers with exhibits in Motor hall
Added to the other noises was the
chug of tractor engines being tried
out, the footing of automobile horns
the hum of machinery of all descrip-
tions. the shouts of horsemen gallop-
ing up and down on beautiful horses
and the shouts of jitney men lined ur
on the roads ready to receive pas
sengers. Taxicab drivers and jitney
men were obliged to pay licenses tc
get into the grounds
Restaurants this morning were filled
with out of town Kansans here to wit
ness the second annual Free Fair anc
the only Free Fair in the world.