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lias to-day become not only a business and art, but it has become a pro- 

 gressive science. He who fails to recognize the fact that agriculture cm- 

 braces a progressive science, fails to grasp the situation, and fails to grasp 

 the spirit that has come to us in this twentieth century. 



RESPONSE IN BEFIALF OF GOOD ROADS ASSOCIATION. 

 (By Geo. F. Reed, Springfield, Mo.) 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen : I have used every effort 

 possible to shift this responsibility upon the shoulders of someone else, 

 but our Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture would not have it 

 otherwise but I should respond on behalf of the Good Roads Association. 



Our first meeting was held in Chillicothe a few years ago and there 

 was an exhibit of road making machinery. The next year it was held 

 in Springfield. That started the beginning of the road improvement 

 movement in Missouri. It has been worked up till the State organization 

 has gotten a road law enacted which is considered by everyone to be one 

 of the best laws in any State in the Union. Road improvement under the 

 operation of this present law has been a great deal more extensive than 

 it was under the old law. 



In regard to our roads and the effort that is being made to change 

 our road law, I wish to emphasize the fact that it is the desire of Greene 

 county that our common road laws remain on the statute books as they 

 are. 



On behalf of the Good Roads Association and the people of Spring- 

 field, I extend to you a hearty welcome. 



MISSOURI'S PART AT ST. LOUIS WORLD'S FAIR. 

 (By Hon. M. T. Davis, Aurora, Mo.) 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : Welcome indeed is this op- 

 portunity of meeting with the growers and breeders of our State, and 

 discussing with you ways and means to do our imperial State justice be- 

 fore the world at the great exposition to be held within our borders dur- 

 ing the year 1904. 



And I want to say to you gentlemen that Missourians have just cause 

 to feel an unending pride in this great celebration, not only because it 

 will assuredly be the greatest exposition spectacle the world has ever 

 seen, but because it will serve to revive a sentiment of loyalty and thanks- 

 giving in one direction where it is now almost extinct; and while we must 



