The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-26
Twenty Cows on Each Quarter
Section a Fortune.
1t Would Mean $6,OOO,OOO q
Year to This County.
BREEDERS HOLD BIG BANQUET
Sale at Fair Grounds Today Is
a Big Feature.
Finest HOlstein Stock Ever
Represented in State.

Twenty dairy cows on eacn quarter
section of farm land in Shawnee
county would increase the value of
the county's dairy products to more
than 100000 a year. it was assert
ed Monday night before the Kansas
Holstein- Friesian Breeders association
banquet at the Chamber of Commerce
by H. H Pugh of the Beatrice Cream
cry Co., Topeka. Speaking before
about SO catt1emen, their wives and
friends, Pugh compared this possible
wealth and conditions here to those
in a certain Missouri county which is
"booming" and drawing population
from all parts of the west because of
newly established ore output of
about 100000 a year.
The banquet, given for members of
the association and their wives, was
one of the most successful of the con-
claveS of the association. Pugh made
his remarks relative to the vast dairy
possibilities in Shawnee county while
greeting the stockmen to this city.
A Matter of Patriotism.
Troland Cleare, Brattlesboro, Vt,
gave the breeders a few pointers in
patriotism as connected with their in
dustry. Cleare asserted that it should
be regarded as patriotic work to
raise dairy cows, the Holsteins being
one of the most popular milk breeds.
This is a war of food and fats as
we'll as bullets" Cleare asserted.
| J. s. Malone, professor of animal
husbandry, A. & NJ. college, Stillwa-
ter, Okla, took up Cleare's line of ar
gument and quoted figures to show
that there is more food value in milk
than in a corresponding amount of
wheat, eggs or other staff of life
products. He cited that the Holstein
COW holds the worlds record for milk
and butterfat production. Malone
| spoke on THE Holstein's Place in the
War" NJ. A. Anderson, cashier of the
Hope State bank, Hope, Kan, referred
to the twentieth century saloon"
comparing the place of today where
! food and fats and healthful beverages
are sold to the nineteenth century sa-
| loon which dispensed goods of a dam
| aging character. Perl r. Barton, edi-
| tor of the Times at Herington, spoke
on "A Lesson in Heredity." Both Bar
| ton and w. H. Mott, retiring secretary
| of the association, come from Dick
inson county. famous the country over
! for its dairy products. The charts of
the Dickinson County Cow Testing
association are used in scores of
schools and colleges and by lecturers
to illustrate the Importance of keep
| ing paying cows, and to show how
this can be done by culling out the
'boarders."
Prof. o. E. Reed. head of the dairy
department of the Kansas Agricultur-
| al college, spoke on the importance. of
| proper feeding of dairy cattle. j. C.
| Mohler, secretary of the state board
| of agriculture, urged the cattlemen
| along in their work while Chas. Dillon
| appeared for Governor Capper The
meeting was closed by talks by Ben
! Schneider, president of the associa-
| ton, Nortonville, and George P. Nc
| Intire, president of the Topeka Cham
| Der of Commerce.
The banquet was preceded by a
| business meeting late Monday after
noon wherein Schneider was re-elect-
| ed president, A. B. Wilcox, Abilene,
was elected president; and A S.
| Neale, Manhattan was elected secre-
| tary-treasurer. New directors elected
were T. NJ. Ewing, Independence, and
| George Lenhart. Abilene. J. T. Mast
| Scranton, was elected director to sue
coed himself.
| The feature of the program today
| is the sale at the fair grounds begin
ming at 1 o'clock. To paraphrase Prof
| o. E. Reed, the sale represents the
| finest Holstein stock ever assembled
| in Kansas. About 20 breeders are rep
resented with rs or more dairy cat
tie, ranging in value from $3.50 tc
$4,000.
The convention will end tonight
| with the initiation of the members
into the mysteries of the Ake-Po-
Ster-BoOs.