The Breeze in Black and White from Topeka, Kansas • 1

TOPEKA, KANSAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1920 NO. 1 VOL. 1 The Vice President Back in the days when acknowledging the ownership of Holsteins was a good deal like admitting you had the itch, Stone, the veteran of Peabody, stuck to and made money from the big black and white cow. Among those who recognized the rightness of this policy was P. W.

Enns and his judgment and observation soon led him into the ownership of Holsteins. He became one of the foundation stones of Holstein business in Kansas, and built himself up in allied lines of agriculture while building up in that, his activities leading, among other things, to his being made treasurer of the Kansas State Farm Bureau. Mr. Enns is completing a year as vice president of the Holstein-Friesian Association of Kansas. ules are so minute as compared with the milk of most other breeds, that the cream rises slowly by gravity systems.

When the cream gets up it is so light colored that it does not show conspicuously. All this was a handicap. So, these early day breeders gradt-ually dropped out, or dropped down to a few family cows. Mr. Mast is about the only one of those named who is still in the game, and working at it very hard.

But when butter substitutes, were compelled to sell on their own merits, Kansas again turned to dairying. When the doctor came to know that the smallness of the fat globules of Holstein milk so increase the digestibility, as to make it the proper, milk for infants and invalids, and the best milk for anyone for consumption raw when the Babcock test demonstrated that the butter-fat is in the Holstein milk, and that the fat percentage is small, not because there is little butter, but because there is much milk; and when the cream separator made it as easy to get the fat out of Holstein milk as out of any other then Holsteins came back strong. We are now in the stage where more people are learning every day that whether it is milk, or butter, or cheese to be made, the machine to be used is a Holstein cow. And that for turning the forage production of various soils, and sections into a merchantable product the Holstein has proven its adaptability. Pioneering the Breed The Assistant Publisher The assistant publisher of the Capper Farm Press (which here acknowledges its many obligations to the backers and beneficiaries of the big black and white cow) is well known to many members of the Kansas Association.

It is Marco Morrow who sits on the lid when Arthur Capper is away, and in conference with whom the big boss always can be found when he is here. Marco Morrow. Paper shortage, editorial and business policies, payrolls and personnel are his daily fare. In this connection it is interesting, to note that it was in planning the advertising campaign of a big dairy machinery manufacturer that Mr. Morrow got his first complete close-up view of Kansas and doubtless formed the attachment which brought him back to make this state his home.

The Holstein-Friesian Association of Kansas The meeting at which the present association of Kansas Holstein breeders was started occurred at Herington, March 1, 1916 partly at the suggestion of John W. Johnson. Call for the meeting was sent out by a letter by W. H. Mott.

At the meeting a banquet was given to all breeders in attendance, by the Herington Commercial club. At that meeting the organization was completed and named the Holstein-Friesian Association of Kansas. Dr. Schuyler Nichols of Herington was the first president Ben Schneider of Nortonville, vice president, and W. H.

Mott of Herington, secretary. The semi-annual meeting in 1916 was held at Manhattan. The annual meeting of 1917 was held at Newton where a banquet was given to the breeders by Dr. J. T.

Axtell and P. W. Enns, charter members of the association. The matter of holding a state sale in connection with the association meeting had been discussed at various times but many breeders hesitated to offer their cattle at public sale, believing that there were but fewT buyers for them. To convince the members that a successful sale could be held, Dr.

J. T. Axtell and W. H. Mott agreed to furnish all the cattle for the first sale: The sale was held and was an unqualified success.

From that date the sale idea has grown until it has become necessary to hold a two-days sale instead of one. The semi-annual meeting of 1917 was held at Nortonville, Kansas, the home of Ben Schneider, who had been elected president at the Newton annual meeting. There a -banquet was given by the-Commercial Club of. Nor- PROGRAM Fifth Annual Meeting Holstein-Friesian Assll of Kansas. H.

H. PUGH, TOASTMASTER BY H. B. COWLES In view of my opportunities for observation I will be glad to give an outline of Holstein history in Kansas. To suggest how much of this history comes in my time, my first purebred bull was numbered) down in the The current bull number is around 300,000.

Holsteins became numerous enough in this country to begin to attract attention in the 70s. By 1880 some of the importers were making milk records commonly thought impossible and scattered animals began to drift out West. Toward the end of that decade Topeka was becoming quite a Holstein center, represented! by such breeders as H. W. Cheney, M.

A. Low, F. W. Travis, A. G.

Potter, and' J. B. Zinn. Over the state were such breeders as J. M.

Beach, Maple Hill M. S. Babcock, Nor-tonville C. F. Stone, Peabody J.

P. Mast, Scranton, and Henson Rath-bone, Council Grove. And these men did yeomen service in pushing the breed. Stone for years covered the great fairs of the country with such cows as Empress Josephine 3d, who to this day ranks easily among the foremost of the breed and the way he uniformly and persistently took grand championships, matched anything that anybody else has done since. Cheney bred and- raised Shadybrook Gerben, winner over everything for production at the St.

Louis Worlds Fair. But all this dates back to the days when the oleo men fixed the price of butter, and kept it below the cost of production. Dairying did not pay. Then, too, this was before the days of the Babcock test. Holstein milk is so thoroughly emulsified, that is, the fat glob Presidents Address.

Appleman Welcome Mayor H. J. Corwine Response W. R. Stubbs Indian Dance.

from the Topeka Educational and Industrial Institute Address Hon. W. B. Barney State Dairy Commissioner of Iowa Music Modoc Quartette Address B. B.

Davis, Omaha, Neb. Director National Holstein-Friesian Assn. Tom Powell, Scotch Comedian Address J. B. Fitch Dairy Dept.

Kansas Agricultural College Address B. M. Hildebrande Pres. Holstein-Friesian Assn, of Nebraska Legerdemain. Godfrey Moore Address.

J. H. Frandsen Dairy Dept. Nebraska University Music Modoc Quartette Address H. M.

Graeffe Subject: Federal Accredited Herds Music Modoc Quartette Business Session of Serious Nature. (Members are requested to remain.).