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publicly or privately, in an experimental way. in the United States. I 

 leave you to judge if the government could have found a station that 

 they thought better able to do this work, whether the government would 

 not have chosen that station. 



In this connection I want to tell you not only some of our good things 

 bur also some of our deficiencies. I want to tell you frankly. I should 

 hate very much to leave here feeling that I had exaggerated a single thing 

 in your hearing. Not only am I prone to tell the truth, but if I were not 

 prone, I think it is by far the best policy. We are not equipped with 

 herds and show material in animal husbandry as we ought to be. The 

 University has been spending a great deal of money in fitting its labora- 

 tories assigned to this work, but laboratories, however expensive they 

 may be, do not make much impression on the average stock breeder. 

 However inexpensive his own farm may be, when he comes to Columbia 

 he wants to see fine herds, and he will not find very fine herds of cattle 

 at Columbia yet a while. That is not due to the fact that we do not think 

 fine herds are necessary, but it is due to the fact that with the money 

 we have at our command we cannot provide everything in a day. You 

 cannot equip your laboratories for scientific work in a veterinary surgery 

 and in dairying and animal husbandry and at the same time buy large 

 and expensive representative herds in cattle, sheep and hogs. It takes 

 an immense amount of money to do that. We have not money enough 

 yet to do it all. We have put our laboratories in order and we are asking 

 our legislature for an appropriation for herds of improved live stock, 

 cattle, sheep and hogs, and as my boys say, "It is now up to the Missouri 

 Legislature'' whether they will provide it or not. I believe that they will 

 do so, and that the man who comes to Columbia next fall will find the 

 herds of livestock there very fine. We have some good animals. I be- 

 lieve we have as good Jerseys as you can find in the State, but as for 

 some breeds of cattle and the principal breeds of hogs and sheep, in some 

 instances we have no herds at all and in some instances we have very 

 small herds, in fact entirely too small, and Professor Mumford in his 

 work in stock judging is seriously handicapped by the fact that we have 

 no fine herds of improved live stock. In some instances where the quality 

 is all right, the herds are entirely too small. We have asked the Legis- 

 lature to remedy that at the coming session by an appropriation, and if 

 the Legislature grants it, as we are asking them to do, we assure you of 

 improved herds just as soon as the money can be invested. 



The College of Agriculture is getting ready to do some very fine 

 work in dairy husbandry— that interest appeals to you here about Spring- 

 f eld. for if you don't know it, I do know that some of the best dairy sec- 

 tions of Missouri are in the Southwestern part of the State. The last 



