SEAL OF MISSOURI STATE BOARD 

 OF AGRICULTURE. 



The Missouri State Board of Agriculture was organized under 

 the laws of the State, March 13, 1865. The Board is authorized to 

 adopt a common seal by section 4697, R. S. 1899 : 



"A Board of Agriculture is hereby instituted and created a 

 body corporate by the name and style of 'The Missouri State Board 

 of Agriculture,' and by that name shall have perpetual succession, 

 power to sue and be sued, complain and defend in all courts, to 

 make and use a common seal and alter the same at pleasure." 



No seal, however, had been adopted until on February 1, 1908, 

 the Secretary, under previous order of the Board, submitted a de- 

 sign, consisting of the Great Seal of the State for the center, circled 

 by a wreath of wheat-heads, which in turn is circled by the let- 

 tering "Seal of Missouri State Board of Agriculture * 1865 * ", 

 with a wreath of corn ears in the husk on the outer edge of the 

 seal." 



At a called meeting of the Board, held in Kansas City on Feb- 

 ruary 1, 1908, the above design was adopted as the official seal of 

 the Board. 



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