The Kansas Stockman from Topeka, Kansas • 16

THE KANSAS STOCKMAN APRIL 1, 1922 THE EDI OR PAGE PAGE SIXTEEN CURTIS L. DAUGHTERS, Editor Subscription Price. Five cents the copy from newsdealers. To United States Possessions, Cuba and Mexico, $1.00 the year by subscription, remittance to be by U. S.

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Foreign: For countries in the Postal Union, single subscription $1.50 the year. J. H. MERCER, Manager THE KANSAS STOCKMAN Founded November 1, 1916 Published on the 1st and 15th of each month by The Kansas Live Stock Association 822 Kansas Topeka, Kansas Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Topeka, Kansas, under Act of March 3, 1879. breeds, Holsteins, Guernseys and Jerseys, both purebred and grade, with Holsteins predominating, and grades and purebreds of the beef breeds are available also.

There are a number of communities in the state where one or more carloads could be assembled for shipment very readily, and we can put you in touch with reputable breeders who will assist your people in locating them." is a new feature of the awards in wnich special prizes are offered by the Institute of American Meat Packers. The load averaged 1,175 pounds and sold for 15 cents. This notable achievement was due to the fact that nothing but good type purebred Hereford bulls were used in the grading up of the herd and demonstrates most clearly the value of registered sires. Mr. Casement also won second money on a load of S.

M. S. yearlings at the recent Fort Worth show. This load sold at $12 per hundred. Only purebred sires were used in the S.

M. S. herd. In. Which Charley Curtis Succeeds IN SPITE of the kicking and fussing and scrapping by the Eastern and Southern Senators hides have been put back in the tariff bill and we have Senator Charley Curtis to thank for the job.

In the face of the opposition he had, the senior Kansas Senator tackled a man's sized job when he sought to remove hides from the free list, but his position in the committee gave him a slight advantage and when he started fighting he never quit until he landed hides on the schedule. Mrs. S. A. Bowman Dead RS.

S. A. BOWMAN, wife of S. A. Bowman, ivi Council Grove, passed away March 20th.

Mrs. Bowman with her husband came to The Annual Hays Roundup UNUSUAL interest attaches to the winter work of the Fort Hays experiment station of Kansas State Agricultural College, located at Hays, Kan. The annual Round-Up day at Hays will be held on Saturday, April 29. A description of the Fort Hays work to be described in full on April 29, is given by Dr. C.

W. McCampbell, head of the animal husbandry department of Kansas State Agricultural College, as follows: Age of Breeding and Type of Bulls for Range Use We are now using two lots of heifers, one of which has been bred to drop calves at two years of age, the other to drop their first calves at three years of age. We are using two types of bulls, one is the finer so-called show type. The plan anticipates the alternation of each bull with each group for eight years, at the end of this time we will have four crops of calves from each bull. This will give us an opportunity to see what effect dropping calves at two years of age has upon the heifer herself and subsequent calf drops; also the relative value of these two types of bulls for range use.

Individual records are being kept on each animal in the experiment. Dry Feed Versus Silage for Growing and Wintering Steers Two lots of steers that were dropped in the spring of 1920 are being used. Lot 1 was fed on dry roughage during the winter of 1920, lot 2 on silage; both were grazed together during the summer of 1921. Each lot was fed the same during the winter of 1921, as they were during the winter of 1920, and will be grazed together during the summer of 1922. Individual records are being kept on these steers.

The relative Value of Cane With the Heads On and Off Fed From Shock and From the Silo Four lots of 10 cows each are being used in this test. Each lot is receiving a pound of cotton seed cake per head per day; one lot cane silage heads on; one lot cane silage heads off; one lot cane from the shock; one lot with cane from the shock heads off. Wintering Stock Cows Five lots of 10 cows are being fed as follows: Lot 1 straw; lot 2 straw and cotton seed cake; lot 3 straw and silage; lot 4 silage alone; lot 5 silage and cake. The Fort Hays station is also carrying four lots of sheep in order to determine if possible the better methods of handling sheep under western Kansas conditions. Old Meat Not Popular THAT neither the Britons nor Australians are not overly fond of well aged meat and that they are rather resentful when the British government seeks to foist it upon them is indicated by a little paragraph which appeared in a recent issue of Truth, a well known London periodical.

The item, which indicates that the live stock industry of Australia has its troubles, follows: "Fine old Meats 1918 Vintage: The High Commissioner of the Commonwealth of Australia made rather a startling statement to the Australian Chamber of Commerce last week. Referring to Australian primary industries, Sir Joseph Cook remarked that all were in a healthy condition with the exception of meat. Australia had sold a large quantity of meat to the British Government three or four years ago, and owing to the dearth of shipping it had to be kept in Australia. This old meat is now coming forward and 'messing up the meat It is not at all bad meat, but simply old meat fine old crusted meat, I suppose and Sir Joseph thought the Government should try and get rid of it in the starving districts of Europe, where it would really be appreciated. Anyhow, I hope the Government will not, in the interests of producers, deal with it as they did with their wool purchases.

I should not myself fancy mutton that has hung four or five years." Kansas from Illinois forty-one years ago. She is the mother of ten children, nine of whom are living and all of whom are readers of The Kansas Stockman. Among the children are W. I. Bowman, Ness City; Fred Bowman, Parkerville, and S.

A. Bowman, Council Grove, all well known Hereford breeders. The many friends of this widely known family deeply sympathize with them in their loss of the one who has shared their joys and sorrows for nearly half a century. Volume of Meat Exports Gains ALTHOUGH exports of meat and meat products during 1921, as compared with 1920, showed an increase of 3 per cent in quantity, the value decreased 36 per cent, according to official figures now available, announces the Institute of American Meat Packers. Exports of all kinds of meat and meat products during 1921 aggregated 1,945,660,210 pounds, worth as compared with 1,883,389,053 pounds, worth $462,500,064, during 1920.

The figures indicate the tremendous declines which have occurred in wholesale meat prices during the past year. One of the outstanding features of the year's export trade was the great increase in the amount of lard shipped to other countries. During 1921 exports of lard 882,883,645 pounds were about 270,000,000 pounds, or 40 per cent heavier than during 1920, but the value decreased about or 22 per cent. A comparison of 1921 and 1913 figures shows that lard exports in 1921 exceeded 1913 shipments by about 317,000,000 pounds. Exports of hams and shoulders in 1921, as compared with 1920, increased about 24 per cent, or 47,000,000 pounds 'in quantity, but decreased more than 6 per cent, or $3,000,00 in value.

Bacon exports showed decreases both in quantity and value. The quantity exported in 1921 was 415,299,622 pounds, which was 34 per cent, or 221,376,050 pounds less than in 1920, and the value in 1921 was about 56 per cent, or less than in the preceding year. Exports of fresh beef during 1921, amounting to 10,412,790 pounds, were the lightest since 1913, when only about 7,000,000 pounds were exported. Michigan Has Surplus of Dairy Cattle THAT Michigan has a surplus of good dairy cattle and is in a position to supply dairy cattle of the most popular breeds to the prospective dairymen of the west is the statement made by Horace W. Norton, Director of Animal Industry for the state of Michigan.

Mr. Norton, in his communication, says: "If the farmers and dairymen of your state are in the market for dairy cattle, as they are in many sections of the West and Southwest, we believe that they can buy them as satisfactorily and reasonably in Michigan as anywhere. "You will agree that health is the first consideration in the selection of foundation animals, and figures for the past fiscal year show that less than two and one-half per cent of Michigan cattle tested for tuberculosis under stand and federal supervision reacted to the test. This is an excellent showing, and if you will compare these figures with those of other states, you will be convinced that none of the dairy sections can furnish healthier stock for foundation purposes than Michigan. "There have been very few out-of-state buyers here for dairy cows during the past few months, and as a result there is a large accumulation of surplus which is being offered at very low prices.

This surplus includes the three leading dairy The Value of a Purebred Bull THE advantage of using purebred bulls is well illustrated in the herd of Dan Casement, Manhattan, Kansas. Mr. Casement has used registered Hereford bulls for many years. In 1920 his grade cow herd consisted of 100 head of this same year's calf crop, 44 were bulls which were steered and two carloads of them selected and fed as yearlings for exhibit at the 1921 International Live Stock Show. One load was fed for the Short Fed specials, in which class quality and condition count 50 per cent.

Mr. Casement's load gained 3.27 pounds daily at the cost of $10.79 per hundredweight, which were the cheapest gains of the show, and when the premiums were awarded they won the Championship over all breeds. The other carload stood fifth in the corn belt section for yearlings and second in the "Best-Bred" carload of Hereford? in the show, This.