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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,” 
“Modern Dairying,” “The Modern Sheep,” “Feeding Wheat to 
Farm Animals,” “Shorthorn Cattle,” “Hereford Cattle,” ‘“Polled 
Catile,” “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 
Corn 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 
