148 MISSOURI AGRICULTURAL Ri:rt)RT. 



6th. That we favor a law in this State that will provide State aid 

 in the construction and maintenance of improved roads in Missouri. 



7th. The Missouri Good Roads Association in annual meeting at 

 Springfield, January, 1903, hereby gives its unqualified endorsement to 

 The National and International Good Roads Convention called by the 

 officials of the National Good Roads Association, The Office of Public 

 Road Inquiries, Department of Agriculture, State of Missouri and City 

 St. Louis, The Louisiana Purchase Exposition and the business and rail- 

 road organizations of the State, to be held in St. Louis, April 27th to May 

 2nd, 1903. And believing that the public road interest of the State should 

 be adequately represented in said convention, therefore, be it further 



Resolved, that this Association appoint five (5) delegates and five 

 alternates from each county in the State, as representatives in said con- 

 vention, and that the Secretary be instructed to forward list of names 

 of said delegates so appointed to the National Secretary at St. Louis. 



8th. Recognizing the value of National and State aid in highway 

 improvement, and believing that the National Government has an interest 

 in improving military and post roads ; therefore, be it 



Resolved, that this Association fully endorses the principles of the 

 "Brownlow Bill," now pending in Congress and -equests that the mem- 

 bers from this State give favorable consideration and support to the 

 same, and that copies of this resolution be sent to each members of the 

 Missouri Delegation in Congress. 



THE IMPORTANCE OF RELIABLE PEDIGREES AND THE 

 INFLUENCE OF RESPONSIBLE BREEDERS. 



(By E. E. Axline, Oak Grove, Mo.) 



This I consider one of the most important subjects now facing the 

 breeders of pure bred stock. An unreliable pedigree is worse than 

 none at all. And a pedigree from an unresponsible breeder is the same 

 as none. W'hile I do not think there are many breeders of pure bred 

 stock who are unreliable, I am satisfied there are some who do not 

 feel the responsibility resting on them in the making of true pedigrees. 

 About all there is in making a pedigree is a man's honor and integrity, 

 and all depends on his honesty. A true pedigree not only shovv^s the 

 blood lines of an animal, but it also shows the lineage of individuality 

 each ancestor possesses. An untrue or unreliable pedigree does not 

 really show anything at all, as all its showings are false and cannot 

 be depended on as true and reallj' is of no value whatever. 



