The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-01
Demonstration Trip Starts
With Meeting at OIathe.
Five Hundred Persons Sing
America as Train Hats.
TALK cow sow AND HEN
Garry Diversified Farming Mes
sage to Farmers Doors.
Santa Fe Furnishes Train-K.
S. A. C. the Speakers.

Olathe, Kan, May 1.-The Santa Fe-
Agricultural college Cow, Sow and
Hem demonstration train was for
mally dedicated to the service of the
livestock industry of Kansas here this
morning, following the singing of
America" by 500 johnson county
farmers and Olathe business men and
women, including students from over
the county who expect to engage in
farming. A heavy rain early in the
morning doubtless kept many farmers
at home but the weather cleared be-
fore the meeting opened.
When the train arrived at o'clock,
J. F. farrell, director of publicity for
the Santa Fe, suggested that the war
time habit of starting public meetings
with a patriotic song was a good one
to keep, and he asked c. r. Churchill,
publisher of the Olathe Register, to
did, the audience joining with enthusi-
asm.
FARRELL then presented F. P. Cruice.
manager of the Santa FEES agricultural
and industrial development depart
ment. in charge of the train, who said
that his company regarded the work
of the state agricultural college in
carrying on experiments in agriculture
and stock raising as being worth to
the Kansas farmers many millions of
dollars annually. The cOmapny, he
said, felt that it could not do a greater
service to the farmers of the state than
to help carry to their doors, as it were,
the message of better methods for
dairying, livestock raising and poultry
raising. That is why the Santa Fe fl
nanced the train. he said, the agricul-
tural college having offered to furnish
the speakers and exhibits for demon
stration purposes as its contribution
to the cause.
Fitch First Speaker.
Cruice then introduced T J. Talbert
of the college extension department
who took charge of the demonstration.
The first speaker on the regular pro-
gram was ]. B. Fitch, professor of
dairy husbandry, who gave five up
standing reasons why dairying should
be more generally adopted in Kansas.
They are:
Dairy farming will build up and
maintain soil fertility.
2-Dairying furnishes immediate
and constant returns thruout the year
3-Dairy cows will turn waste feed
and waste labor from our farms into
cash.
4-Winter dairying makes a very
profitable addition to wheat farming.
5-A few cows, with some chickens
and hogs, will make a living for any
farmer who will do his part.
kansas is particularly adapted to
dairy farming" Fitch declared. Feed
can be, raised as cheaply in this state
as anywhere else IN the OnlOHs lHS
climate is satisfactory, and the best
markets in the country are available"
Good Cows First Essential.
According to Fitch, the first essen |
tial for profitable dairying is good
cows. He urged that the scrubs be
books be kept on the milk COWS. and |
that "boarders' be marketed for beef. |
For good mixers he recommended |
the following breeds: Jersey, Guern- !
sey, Ayrshire, Holstein and Brown |
Swiss.
Fitch closed with review of testi- |
mony of hundreds of farmers whose |
cream checks took care of the house |
hold expenses, often with a neat sum |
left over.
DR.. c. w. McCampbeI, professor of /
animal husbandry, said that farmers /
in the territory contiguous to Kansas |
City had unusual opportunity of max
ing profit in the production of stock |
hogs, because Kansas City is the lar
gest stock hog market in the world,
and stock hogs can be produced /
cheaper than any other class of live
stock.
Farmers were urged to give more |
care to their brood sows. Only SO per
cent of the pigs narrowed on the farms
of the country live to a marketable
age, McCampbel said
Saving the pig starts when the sow
I
must be built UP to stand the strain Of
the nursing season. Corn or the grain
sorgums or the small grains, particu-
arly barley, must of course be used /
as the basis of the ratio feed in most
instances; but to secure the best and i
most economical results, some feed
rich in protein must be added. Tank
age is the cheapest rich protein feed.
However, one may substitute two
pounds of soybean meal, two pounds
IF linseed meal, four pounds of shorts
,r two gallons of buttermilk or skim
milk for one pound of tankage. Each
pred SOW should have approximately
lalf a pound of tankaRe. one pound
II soybean meal. one pound of lin
iced meal, or one gallon of skim or
,uttermilk daily during the winter
ieason.
During the summer she should
lave some kind of pasture. During
he winter she should have some kind
# fine hay that has retained as much
Il its green color as possible. Ten
lays before narrowing the sow's ration
hould be reduced by one-half."
Poultry Raising an Industry.
The case of the helpful hen was
tated by N. L. Harris, professor of
poultry husbandry. The farmer who
,eeps bunch of chickens to help out
With the household expenses is wise,
or the scheme will work out to his {
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