The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-03
BE HERE MARCH 20
Speakers for Santa Fe Demon
stratiOn Train Announced.
Fine Stock and Poultry To Be
Carried as Exhibits.

Prize dairy and poultry stock of
the state will be exhibited on board
the Santa Fe railways demonstration
train for extension of the two indus
tries in the eas fern half of Kansas.
The train, which is being run with the
cooperation of the Kansas State Agri-
cultural college. will arrive in Topeka
at 4:30 O'Clock in. the afternoon,
March %, and will leave at 6:15 p. m,
after meeting here. 1t will con-
sist of seven cars, including three
meeting coaches, car of live poultry
exhibits from the bIuest blooded
flocks of the state, and a car of dairy
cattle. the pick of the Kansas State
Agricultural college herds.
Included in the exhibits of dairy
cattle will be Canary Bell. an Ayrshire
COW, who produced 17,407 pounds of
milk and 7S6 pounds of butter last
year. She holds the highest milk and
butter producing record of any living
COW in the state and holds also the
high milk and butter production rec
ord for 2-year-Olds.
Visitors to the train here will be
instructed in buying, caring for, and
feeding dairy cattle and poultry so
as to obtain the maximum produc-
ton. Prof 0. E. Reed, head of the
dairy division of the college, who will
be on the train at different times as
will experts and heads of departments
from the college, asserts it Is easily
possible to double the production OF
the average Kansas COW. The aver
age COW in this state, Prof Reed as
serts, produces 100 pounds of butter
in year.
The Speakers.
Speakers from the college who will
be on the train and the days they Will
speak are as follows:
Poultry-Ross M. Sherwood, act
ing head of the poultry division
March 6 to IT, and Prof. f. E. Fox
Instructor in the poultry division
March 10 to 81.
Dairying-A s. Neale. specialist IN
the dairy extension division, March
to 10; George S. Hine, state dairy
commissioner, March Y to Il: Prot
| J. B. Fitch of the dairy division
| March 10 to "a, and Prof. O. E Reed
head of the dairy division, March -
! to 81.
,, H. M. Banner. agricultural and in
! dustrial agent for the Santa Fe, Will
! be in active charge of the train.
Mr.. Sherwood, of the college, as
| serts the farmers in the eastern hall
of the state may easily double thell
income from poultry if hens are han
died so as to lay during the winter
months Mr.. Sherwood and Mr.. Fog
! will tell. in a practical way, how TINS
can easily be done. They will also
explain various methods of increasing
production thru feeding. housing ane
general improvement of flocks. IL
short, farmers and others, interested
in the Improvement and extensions OF
the industries. will be given the bene'
| fit of years of experiments and study
devoted to dairytng and poultry farm
ing by the college experts and experts
of the Santa Fe railway This will bt
one of the few opportunities of people
over the state TO see and study the
finest cows in the famous college
herds without spending lot of none!
in making a trip to the college.
| F. B.. Glimpse, industrial agent fol
the Wells Fargo I Express company
will be on the train March to 10 ant
l-o1 IN