The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-10
Government Agricultural Dis
play of Great Value.
1t Shows Many Farm Devices
of New Models.
PLANS FOR MODERN HOMES
Windbreaks, Drainage Systems
Are Among Exhibits.
Complete Workings of Weather
Bureau Are Shown.

No farmer who visits the Kansas
Free Fair can afford to miss the gov
eminent exhibits that are on display
under z. L. Coil. No matter what an
agriculturist is interested in he will
find government information offered.
The displays show what a great in
terest Uncle Sam takes in the farmer
and the great pains and expense he
goes to in order to be OF aid to the
farmer.
The system of grading wheat is
thoroly demonstrated by F. H. Eng
lish who will gladly grade any sam
pie the fair visitors bring him. Actual
demonstrations of dust explosions in
mills and elevators and threshing ma
chimes are shown and methods of
preventing them given Ways to get
rid of flies, maggots and grasshoppers
are shown, and all kinds of busting
and spraying methods demonstrated.
Show Wind Breaks.
For the farmers Of the west all
kinds of wind breaks are shown. For
the road enthusiasts the best way of
relocating roads is shown. For the
chicken raiser there are all the latest
colony houses. brooders and trap nests.
Then. there are scores of models and
pictures demonstrating the use of
automatic feeders for hogs and cattle
and sheep as well as models of hog
and sheep dipping watts.
One of the most interesting displays
Is that showing the method in which
lumber is taken from the forest to the
home and the waste and loss sustained
in making the finished product There
is a forest, a sawmill. a planning mill.
a lumber yard and a house completed
from the lumber Also there are
plants showing how the byproducts
are used. even to an alcohol disullery.
This display demonstrated how 40 per
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est and the place where it is used by
the consumer.
How Weather Bureau Works.
Another interesting feature is that
showing how the United States wealth
er bureau handles its weather read
ings, its precipitation records and its
predictions. There are maps and pic
lures showing the work and the in
struments with which every weather
bureau office is equipped.
Along with the displays which are
merely made to show what assistance
the government can give the farmer,
there are booklets explaining the work
and the information that can be fur
nisfed in detail. These books are not
get them by asking one of the atten-
dants, or II they fail 70 get them while
m Topeka, they can write to Washing
ton for them.
Plans for Houses.
II farmer wants to build a house
the government will tell him just how
to plan it will furnish plans and do
everything but tell him what it will
cost. II he wants to build a feed box
or a chicken coop, the government will
furnish him plans and the displays are
intended to show him what they are
and how they may be obtained. II he
wants to drain his land. build a road.
protect his crops from weather and
insects the government will help him
and its methods are shown in the fair
displays.
one of the most interesting fea-
lures Of the exhibit is a series OF pic
lures taken of the ruins in France by
Mr. Coll who was in Europe as a rep
resentative of the department of ag-
riculture during the war. These pic
lures are in a specially made machine
and there is always a crowd around it
waiting to peep thru the lenses and
turn the crank.