Farmers^ Week in Agricultural College 



January 7-12, 1907. 



Fourth Annual Meeting Missouri Corn Growers' Associa- 

 tion, Tenth Annual Meeting Missouri Improved 

 Live Stock Breeders' Association, Seventeenth 

 Annual Meeting Missouri State Dairy As- 

 sociation and First Annual Meeting 

 Missouri State Sheep Breeders' 

 Association. 



(Held under the auspices of the State Board of Agriculture.) 



Abstract of the Addresses Delivered. 

 Opening Session. 



Farmers' week in the Agricultural College has grown to be 

 the annual event for the farmers of the State. The first meeting 

 was held in the Agricultural College in January, 1904, with only 

 one organization assisting the State Board of Agriculture — namely, 

 the Improved Live Stock Breeders' Association, and at that time 

 the Missouri Corn Growers' Association was organized. The sec- 

 ond Farmers' Week Convention was participated in by the Im- 

 proved Live Stock Breeders' Association and the Com Growers' 

 Association, with a much better interest and a larger attendance. 

 The third meeting held in the Agricultural College, January, 1906, 

 was participated in by the above-named conventions, with an at- 

 tendance about twice as large as the year before. The fourth an- 

 nual meeting was participated in by the Improved Live Stock 

 Breeders' Association, the State Corn Growers' Association, the 

 State Sheep Breeders' Association and the Missouri State Dairy 

 Association, with the largest attendance and greatest enthusiasm 

 of any meeting yet held. The farmers of the State are just begin- 

 ning to realize that the Agricultural College is their school, and 

 that it is profitable to visit the college at least once a year. It is 



