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while at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, he was sole 

 judge of three breeds and a member of the judging committee 

 of the other breeds. This experience was gathered together in 

 1915 and published in a very comprehensive volume entitled 

 "Swine in America." 



On January 12, 1894 he was again elected secretary of the 

 Kansas State Board of Agriculture, to succeed Martin Mohler, 

 and was reelected by acclamation each biennium thereafter until 

 his resignation June 30, 1914. Under his direction the quarterly 

 and biennial publications assumed a unique and forceful char- 

 acter, since they dealt largely with the agricultural resources and 

 possibilities of Kansas. Among his best known quarterly publi- 

 cations were: "The Beef Steer and His Sister," "The Helpful 

 Hen," "The Horse Useful," "Pork Production," "Cow Culture," 

 "Modem Dairying," "The Modem Sheep," "Feeding Wheat to 

 Farm Animals," "Shorthorn Cattle," "Hereford Cattle," "Polled 

 Cattle," "Corn and the Sorghums," "Silos and Silage," and 

 "Forage and Fodders." He actively promoted the introduction 

 and extension of alfalfa and the cane and sorghum crops. While 

 serving as secretary he became an editorial correspondent of the 

 Kansas Farmer, the Mississippi Valley Farmer, and The Farmer's 

 Mail and Breeze. In 1903 he published a book on alfalfa, and 

 in 1910 another volume on the same subject entitled "The Book 

 of Alfalfa." 



He was unanimously elected president of the first American 

 Com Congress held in Chicago in 1898 and was made chief of 

 the department of livestock at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition 

 of 1904 at St. Louis. This was the largest livestock show ever 

 organized up to that time, but he unfortunately lacked the phy- 

 sical strength to carry it through. He was obliged to resign 

 before the show was in actual progress. In June 1909 he was 

 given the honorary degree of Master of Arts by Baker University 

 and on November 11th of the same year was accorded the degree 



