REPORT OF SECRETARY. 



Gentlemen of the Board: 



It is gratifying to me to be in a position to report that the 

 work of the Board of Agriculture for the past year has been fruit- 

 ful of greater results than, perhaps, any year in the Board's his- 

 tory. You, gentlemen, may not have realized the magnitude of the 

 work done, but time will prove that the things accomplished in 

 this year, 1907, will become a mile post in the history of the agri- 

 cultural progress of Missouri. 



At the last annual meeting, after examining into the affairs 

 of the Agricultural College, as the law requires you to do each 

 year, your Board recommended to the Legislature that an appro- 

 priation of $200,000 be made for an adequate Agricultural building, 

 and an appropriation of $87,000 for betterments in the Agricultural 

 College. Through the untiring efforts of your legislative commit- 

 tee, headed by President Hudson, an appropriation of $100,000 for 

 the building, and $75,000 for the College of Agriculture was se- 

 cured. I am informed that the Board of Curators have approved 

 the architect's plans for the new building and have advertised for 

 bids, and it is hoped the building will be ready for your next an- 

 nual meeting. The $75,000 for betterments will enable Dean 

 Waters to extend several lines of work that will be of direct bene- 

 fit to the farmers of the State, the most important of which, per- 

 haps, is the soil survey and crop experiment work inaugurated 

 three years ago. Another recommendation made by the Board at 

 the last annual meeting, and which has borne good fruit, was that 

 the Board of Curators provide funds and the necessary facilities 

 for entering students in the judging contests and a live stock ex- 

 hibit at the American Royal and International Live Stock Exposi- 

 tions. Out of the increased appropriations secured for the Agri- 

 cultural College, the above recommendation was carried out with 

 the most successful results. By reference to the appended report, 

 it is shown that the College farm exhibited stock at the Inter- 

 State Fair, Kansas City; the Missouri State Fair, Sedalia; the 



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