The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-04-13
PROGRAM FOR THE ANNUAL
ROUND UP -

A program full of interest to stock
men and farmers is scheduled for
the ninth Annual Round Up at the
Fort Hays Experiment Station,
April %.
Pres. W. NJ. Jardine of the Kansas
State Agricultural College will speak
at 10 a. m. at the morning session of
the Round Up, welcoming the visitors
in behalf of the Agricultural College
and the Fort Hays Experiment Sta
ton. Pres. Jardine has a keen in
terest in the agriculture of Western
Kansas. His long years of service in
the interest of agriculture. both
with the U. S. Department of Agri-
culture and with the Agricultural
College first as Agronomist, then
Director and later as President, have
given him an insight into the agri-
cultural problems of the day, such as
few men receive in a lifetime.
Mr.. M. R. Baker of Sharon Springs,
Wallace County, a progressive live
stock breeder and farmer of Western
Kansas, who has been breeding Here
ford cattle for years, will address the
Round Up visitors on the subject,
''The Survival of the Fittest." Mr..
Baker has been a member of the
Kansas legislature for several terms
He has been a co-Operator with the
Fort Hays Experiment Station for
several years and is putting into
practice many of the valuable ideas
obtained through his cooperative eff
forts.
The presiding officer of the day
will be Mr.. c. C. Cochran Of Hays,
a prominent Western Kansas Here
ford breeder, farmer and banker.
Mr.. Cochran is a pioneer in the short
grass country and knows Western
Kansas agriculture. He thoroughly
appreciates the need for diversified
ton of the agricultural interests IN
this part Of Kansas and any move
ment looking toward improving agri-
cultural conditions finds him in the
front rank.
Mr.. Anthony Kuhn President of
the Ellis County Farmers Union, IS
one Of the prominent and forward
looking farmers, taking part in
furthering the activities of co-opera-
tion in agriculture. Mr.. Kuhn will
make a short address at the morning
session of the Round Up.
Mr.. Ed Root, a prominent livestock
breeder of Brookville, Kansas, Pres
ident of the Kansas Livestock Associ-
alton, will make a short address on
the work of this splendid organiza-
ton.
Mr.. T. w. Tomlinson, of Denver,
Colorado, Editor of ''The Producer, ,"
will address the Round Up visitors on
soThe Present Livestock Situation. "
As Secretary of the American Ma
tional Livestock Association, he has
been making a gallant fight for the
livestock shippers in his endeavOrs to
get the high freight rates reduced.
At the present time Mr.. Tomlinson
is representing the livestock inter
ests of the nation in railroad rate
hearings before the Interstate Com
merce Commission at Washington, D.
C.
The Afternoon Program will be
devoted almost exclusively to dis
cussion of the results of the feeding
experiments and inspection of the
cattle and sheep in the lots. l.. O.
Aicher. the new Superintendent OF
the Fort Hays Experiment Station,
will give a short talk outlining his
program for increasing the useful
ness of the Station to the farmers OF
! Western Kansas.
DR.. c. w. McCampbeH, Head OF
the Department of Animal Hus-
bandry at the Agricultural College
will analyze the results of the feed
| ing experiments. He has a happy
faculty of presenting such intorma'
ton in, clear and convincing man
ner. DR.. McCampbell has been con-
ected with the Animal Husbandry
Department of the College for many
years and has had wide and varied
experience in his long term OF serV-
ice to the livestock industry OF the
state.
CIT COULDN'T BE DONE-BU1
HE DID IT''