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of tile drainage for certain areas of the State. Such drainage fields 

 have already been established at Lamar, Barton county, and at 

 Monroe City, Monroe county, and arrangements are practically 

 completed for similar experiments at Poplar Bluff, Butler county, 

 Centralia, Boone county, and at Trenton, Grundy county. 



The importance of this work would amply justify the Legis- 

 lature in supporting it much more liberally than in the past, in 

 order that it may be greatly extended. 



Recommendations. — It is the opinion of your committee that 

 Missouri's Agricultural College should not be conspicuous at the 

 great international live stock shows by the absence of her stu- 

 dents trained in stock and grain judging, nor by the absence of rep- 

 resentatives of its herd and flocks fed and prepared by the stu- 

 dents. It seems to us that the College can in no other way so ef- 

 fectively impress the high character of its work and the import- 

 ance of this sort of instruction upon the public as by joining the 

 colleges of neighboring states in an active participation in these 

 great international shows. This is particularly true of such shows 

 as the American Royal Live Stock Show, held at Kansas City, and 

 the International Live Stock Show, held at Chicago. It is strongly 

 urged that the Board of Curators provide the College with suffi- 

 cient funds and with all of the facilities for entering upon this en- 

 terprise in a manner which will reflect creditably upon the stock 

 breeders and feeders of the State. 



"We desire to renew our recommendation of last year, with 

 reference to the dairy barn, which, as was then pointed out, is 

 entirely inadequate and unsuited to the purpose. Scarcely any 

 progressive, private dairyman in this State has so illy ventilated 

 and poorly arranged a barn for his dairy herd. It is earnestly 

 recommended that the Forty-fourth General Assembly make an ap- 

 propriation for the erection of a model dairy barn in lieu of this 

 one. 



Among the urgent needs of the College for which the forth- 

 coming Legislature should make provision are the following: 



Additional teachers and assslstants 



Soil survey 



Experiments 



Animal husbandry, including purchase of pure bred stock 



Equipment in dairy husbandry, botany, domestic science, agronomy, horticulture 

 veterinary science, and entomology 



Ref rigei'ating plant for dairy 



Poultry plant, including equipment and instructors. 



$8,000 

 15,000 

 20,0lX) 



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16, OIK) 



3,000 



10,000 



