The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-12
A SECOND ROYAL!'
Hogs, Cattle and Horses Su-
preme at Kansas Fair.
Six Hundred Swine Comprise
Largest Dept in History.
BEEF AND DAIRY CATTLE
Two Breeds Run Close Race;
Beef i'm the Majority.
Horses of Artillery Type APP
propriately Outnumber Others.

Horses cattle and swine, the Key
stone triangular of Kansas livestock
wealth. are on royal review before the
crowds at the Free Kansas Fair here
this week. And as the aggregate
value of the three industries in the
state runs into the hundreds of mil
lions the actual value of the exhibits
in the three departments at the fair
grounds may be reckoned in millions
of dollars.
six hundred head of swine are ex-
hibited in the 800 pens in the depart
ment in charge of w. J. Cody, man
ager of the Kansas Farmer, Topeka,
and for years recognized as Kansas
partment overflowed the permanent
barns Monday and temporary bunch
of pens totaling los was placed under
canvas. 1t is here that specimens of
every breed of swine raised in Ohio,
Indiana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Mis-
souri, and Kansas may be found. The
exhibits are picked from the millions
of head in the six states. They are
the blue bloods of their kind in the
southwest and Cody. who has wit
messed hundreds of such shows all
thru the nation, declares that the To-
peka show surpasses anything that has
ever been held in the southwest
Hog Weighs 1,1OO Pounds.
Five different breeds, Durocs,
Chester Whites, Poland Chinas, Berk-
ed in the pens. These breeds are the
principal ones raised for stock or
show purposes in the southwest And
as for variety in size-well, the pork
ers'' range from small pigs only few
weeks old to a big Poland CHINA
weighing LOO pounds
Leaving the swine pens, of more in
terest to farmers this year than ever
before because of the high price that
hogs are commanding on the market
i and the demand for them created by
the war, visitors to the fair go east
thru the machinery and down to the
lower end of the midway and there
may be found the big cattle barns con-
tanning the prize specimens of beef
and dairy breeds in the southwest.
Beef Breeds in Majority.
Here the popular opinion that dairy
breeds in Kansas are outnumbering
the beef breeds is discredited but not
entirely SO, for the number of Hol-
stein, Jersey, Ayrshire and Guernsey
are placed by George S. fIine, state
| dairy commissioner in charge, at 1877,
with the Holsteins leading the once
more popular Jerseys.
Shorthorns, Herefords. Angus.
PoIled Durhams and Galloways are
represented in the beef breeds, in
| charge of A M. Patterson of the ami
| NAL husbandry department of the
| Kansas State Agricultural college. Al
| together there are PA exhibits in Pat
| braska and Kansas.
| The horse department, in charge of
| c. w. McCampben, also from the Ag-
i ricultural college, illustrates well the
| revolution of the horse breeding in
| dustry in Kansas since the war began.
| True. there are tiny Shetlands and
| monster draft animals but for the
| most part the exhibits represent the
| medium heavy chunky breeds that
| are coming more and more to be
| known as artillery horses.
Show Artillery Horses.
| There are some representatives of
the light harness and saddle breeds,
| and fine specimens they are, but the
allied nations of democracy are beg
ging for field artillery horses and
| horsemen in the southwest are re-
| spending to that call. Not many
cavalry horses are needed on the bat
t1efield and it is the compact chunky
| animal, not too heavy or too light,
that southwestern breeders are spe-
cializing in nowadays.
| And this type of horseflssh is in
| the ma ority at the fair this year.
There are scores of the animals sleek,
| heavy, but not awkward, in the paviI-
lion.
And, by the way, the livestock ex-
| hibits, insofar as horses, cattle and
| hogs are concerned, do not only repre-
| sent Kansas this year. They come from
| nearly a dozen states and the show
| might well be compared with the
| Southwestern Royal in regards to both
| quantity and quality.