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shut them right in, I put one at each side and two together in front. I 

 could shut up my sows in there and they would do well ; they would 

 squeak in my ears, but I had no trouble in keeping them there, and 

 I would bring feed, water and slop to them or whatever I fed them : 

 and where I had a great many sows and more or less of them had 

 pigs right close together, I doubled them up after the pigs got about 

 a week old, and put two sows in one house. The reason I built them 

 A-shaped is, the first ones I built square and roofed them over and 

 the sows would over-lay their pigs, but the A-shape would keep the 

 pigs on each side so the sows could get around. I fed clover hay in 

 the winter time, nice good clover hay, and the sows relished it very 

 much when I had no grass. 



Speaking of Missouri corn, I have not fed any of that, but we fed 

 a good deal of Peoria corn, and you know what effect that has on a 

 man. 



WHAT THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI IS DOING FOR THE 



FARMER. 



(By Dr. R. H. Jesse, President University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo.) 



Ladies and Gentlemen: The subject which is assigned to me for 

 this evening is a very large .one, because the farmers of Missouri are 

 very numerous, the agricultural interests are diversified and the Uni- 

 versity is helping the farmers along a large number of lines. 



The College of Agriculture is the best investment, so far as I know, 

 that Missouri, as a State, has ever made. She has put into it, accord- 

 ing to the best of my calculation, in the thirty-two years of its exist- 

 ence, a little less than three hundred thousand dollars ; that is all that 

 the college has, up to date, received from this commonwealth, but the 

 college has received from the Federal government in thirty-two years 

 eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and it received also one hun- 

 dred thousand dollars from Boone county, making a total of nine hun- 

 dred and fifty thousand from the Federal government and from Boone 

 county. The State has contributed three hundred thousand dollars, 

 that makes the total received by the University up to date on account 

 of the college, a million and a quarter of dollars. 



The College of Agriculture is endeavoring to help the agricultural 

 interests of this commonwealth in a number of ways. Horticulture is 

 so large an interest in Missouri that we cannot possibly neglect it. Our 

 contribution to this industry has been large and varied, unfortunately 



