The Farmer and Breeder from Kansas City, Kansas • 1

The reeder Farmer DEVOTED TO BETTER FARMING, FEEDING AND LIVE STOCK GROWING. I. M. FISHER, Manager. Vol 3, No.

17. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1915. JAW H. NEFF DEAD. Expires Suddingly of Heart Fairurc in Wyoming.

therefore, be held at 10 o'clock a. August 28, in the board room of the Bureau of Animal Industry, No. 1358 street S. Washington, in order to afford an opportunity to manufacturers, stock raisers, veterinarians and state officials to express their views upon these new proposed regulations. Those who cannot attend thu hearing may send written communica.

tions to the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry and these will he considered. Such communications, i i.i 'IL x. v'i 7 is particular sections of the regulations, copies of which may be obtained from the Bureau of Animal Industry. The Act of 1913 makes it a misdemeanor to ship in interstate commerce and virus, serum, toxin, or analogous product intended for use on domestic animals, which has not been manufactured in an establishment, holding a valid Federal license, ana importers of foreign products are required to secure a permit. The Sec retary of Agriculture is charged with the enforcement of this law and has the power to promulgate such regula.

tions as, in his opinion, are necefaMy to prevent the shipment of worthless or contaminated produces. One of the most important branches of this traffic is in hog cholera serum, but considerable quantities of mallein for testing glanders in horses, tuberculin for testing cattle for tuberculosis, vaccine for black leg, and other preparations, are now being manufactured in the United States and offered for impossible for th purchaser or user. imposible for the purchaser or user of these products to determine for himself whether or not they are pure and up to standard, and the off ical inspection serves as a protection against fraud or carelessness. For this reason the new propsed regulations have been amplified and in several respects. "Vr; JAY HOLCOMB NEFF.

Founder and President bf the Daily Drovers Telegram. KILLING OR CURING. Jay Holcomb Neff, who Has done more than any other one man to develop the Kansas City Live Stock market, our greatest industry, died suddenly last Saturday on a ranch near Cody, Wyoming where he and Mrs. Neff were camping for the Summer. The news of his sudden death came as a shock to not only the.

Stock Yards community but to the city and the entire Southwest, for Mr. Neff has for many years been one of our most influential and foremost citizens. He not only was a most successful publisher, having been the founder of the Drovers Daily Telegram, the world's greatest and best daily live stock and market paper, but 'he was also a very successful business man, being one of Kansas Citys ncnest, men. He also was well known in. political circles, having been Twice elected mayor of Kansas City, and was promimently mentioned as a probable Republican Candidate for Governor of Misouri.

In the death of J. H. Neff, Kansas City loses one of her best boosters, the state one of her best citizens and the Live Stock Industry one df its 'best promoters. The greatest epitaph that can be written upon the tombstone of any man is that he left the vworld better than he found it. This can truly be said of Jay Holcomb Nef.

Large in stature, large in heart, large in brainy he was in the fullest I sense a man among men. man among men. Funeral services were held last night at the Scottish Rite Temple. Burial will be from the family residence and interment made intthe fam-ly vault in Forest Hill Cemetry. 'The following is taken from the Drovers Telegram of last Monday: Jay Tolcomb Neff was born in Hartford City, on July 6, 1854.

His father, Andrew Jackson Neff, was colonel of the Eighty-fourth Indiana regiment in the Civil war. Jay Neff's boyhood was passed amid semi-agricultural surroundings, in suburban homes contiguous to Hartford City and later Winchester, Ind. Being one of a family of seven children and ambitious for a more comprehensive education than was possible otherwise, he earned much of the money which was needed to take him to Asbury University at Greencastle, a school that was later endowed by and took the name of De Pauw. Jay Neff's' desire for a college education took him into all sorts of summer activities, among which he carried a hod," taught school and peddled books through the country. He graduated from De Pauw University in 1877, standing highest in his studies and being president of his class.

He took up the study of law and practiced two years in Peru, Ind. That was the period in which the West which had been known as the Great American Desert, began to attract immigration, so that, hearing of the possibilities in a growing center known as Kansas City he came to this city in 1881. But hundreds if not thousands of other young lawyers in the East had had the same glowing reports of the magical city and a lawyer's shingle was protruding from every second window in 'the business district when he arrivedhere. Enter, ing as a sub-partner with L. C.

Sla-vens, one of the settled and eminent lawyers of that day, Mr. Neff tried by economy and untiring effort to succeed despite the small army of legal lights who either were in on the ground floor or had arrived coincident with his arrival and were struggling as manfully as he. He soon gave up this battle and employed himself to a publishing his main pleasurable activities of late. Mr. Neff was twice married, first to the sweetheart of his boyhood days in Winchester, Ind.

Miss Ellen Ward, daughter of Thomas J. Ward. By this marriage was born Ward Andrew Neff, the only child; shortly after which occurred the death of Mrs. Neff. The second marriage was to Miss Sarah Green, sister of T.

J. and J. J. Green, of Kansas City. Mrs.

Neff and the son survive the deceased. Of six brothers Jay H. Neff, the oldest, was the first to be called to the other side. The surviving brothers include George N. Neff, vice-president and general manager of the Drovers Telegram company; Walter P.

Neff, secretary and managing editor: Dr. Frank C. Neff, a physician of Kansas City; Prof. Theodore L. Neff, of the Chicago University and William T.

Neff, a retired Methodist Minister, Butler, Mo. In recent years Mr. Neff had done little routine work in the Drovers Telegram, though at all times if there was any doubt he was consulted as to policy. The efficiency and the high aims of the Telegram in the past will be maintained in the future. The Telegram will continue to stand for Kansas City and for Kansas City's greatest indus.

try. house that was putting out the Kansas City Daily Price Current. This paper was a losing venture. Its birth was rather premature, antedating the great growth of live stock husbandry in the Central West. Mr.

Neff, believing in the future of the city and having faith in the ultimate and colossal expansion of live stock farming, bought a one-half interest in the paper on which he was working as a reporter. It so happened that the big packing interests of the country began to make eyes at Kansas City at about that time and the Kansas City market thereupon entered its remark, able period of expansion and growth. It was not long until Mr. Neff changed the name of the paper to the Daily Drovers Telegram and secured the remaining interest, which subsequently ied to the formation of a corporation, of which Jay H. Neff was president.

Mr. Neff had several photographs of himself, but the one that gave him the most pleasure in later years, after success had crowned his life's work, was one taken in boyhood days. During one summer vacation when he was earning money to take him to college he was going up a ladder with a hod of brick on his shoulder. Some friend took a' picture of him in action. That picture is one of the priceless ones in Mr.

Neff's collection. Mr. Neff's business interests were varied. Besides being part owner ov the Daily Drovers Telegram he hek stock in the South Omaha Drovers Journal and the National Stock Yards Reporter at St. Louis.

He was interested in several banks and trust com panies, also. Jay Neff was a republican in principle. He vasi elected mayor of Kansas City in 1904 and subsequently was the republican candidate for congress from this district, but was defeated. Mr. Neff was a thirty-third degrees Mason.

His love of travel had taken him all over the world, but in recent years he had found more enjoyment in getting out among the trees and rivers, climbing mountains, peering across fertile valleys and rocky abysses upon a gold, en sunset, Fishing and hunting were Hundreds of thousands of cattle and swine have been destroyed, not by, but because of the foot and mouth disease. When you ask if there is no cure for the malady, you are told that if the animal recovers it will never be of value, a mere wreck of its former self and will never breed again. When the last outbreak occurred at the time of the National Dairy Show in Chicago certain men, among them Mr. F. L.

Ames of Massachusetts who had fine herds at the exhibit if we understand it, to have their valuable animals destroyed, and insisted, in spite of the advice of prominent veterinarians, upon attempting to save them. Mr. Ames writes the Breeder's Gazette, under a recent date, tnas tu-experience with his cattle since thek recovery appears to refute the statements made to him about the effects of the disease, as well in the matter of breeding as in that of appearance. "I visited the herd In February," he says, "with the well-known veterinarian, Dr. R.

W. McCully of New York. He pronounced their condition Al. I myself considered them in better show condition than when they were in I'ne ring in October. My manager informs me he never saw the cattle in better shape at the show or at home," Two cattlemen have recently told us that they have excellent success in curing their herds.

It would seem nearly timc for national and state authorities to know something quite positive about this disease. In the light of Mr. Ames' experience shall our own State, the next time we have an outbreak, kill every animal affected? NEW RULES FOR HOG COLEKA AND OTHER SERUMS. Proposed Federal Regulations Governing Manufacture of Viruses, Serums, Toxins, Amplified and Washington, D. Aug.

10. New regulations governing the manufacture and sale of hog cholera serum and anologous products intended for use on domestic animals have drawn up in tentative by the Department of Agriculture. In order to protect the farmer from the sale of worthless or contaminated viruses, serums, toxins, these proposed regulations are stricter in some-important respects than those now in force. A public hearing yill. Raise well the heifer calves from cows which for ono or more generations have made large and profitable productions of milk and butter fat..