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collection, until we now have a complete set of 10 volumes, and 

 the eleventh will soon be added, making the set complete to 1914. 



MAILING LIST GREATLY INCREASED. 



A hasty inspection of our mailing list showed many names 

 of those who had changed residence or had died, and I deter- 

 mined to make the list a live one. Our efforts in this work soon 

 f cut the list of 3,500 to less than 3,000 names. By enlisting the 

 aid of the farmer himself and making our bulletins more practi- 

 cal than technical, they became more and more popular and the 

 demand for them caused a rapid growth in our list, until today 

 we have a list very near the 10,000 mark and practically all 

 receiving our publications. 



15,495,000 PAGES OF PRINTED MATTER. 



Our monthly bulletins were being printed in lots of from 

 2,000 to 8,000 copies, and some of these were not much in de- 

 mand. We now find it generally necessary to print 12,000 copies, 

 and then some issues are exhausted long before the demand has 

 been satisfied. We dare not print more copies, for the funds 

 allowed us by the Legislature will not permit. During the year 

 1913 the following publications were issued from this office: 



Vol. 11, No. 1, January — The County Farm Adviser and County Bureau of Agricul- 

 ture, 46 pages, 10,000 copies. 



Vol. 11, No. 2, February — Methods of Fattening, Dressing and Marketing Poultry, 



32 pages, 12,000 copies. 



Vol. 11, No. 3, March — Missouri Home Makers' Association, 1913, 130 pages, 3,000 



copies. 



Vol. 11, No. 4, April — Pastures for Hogs, 39 pages, 12,000 copies. 



Vol. 11, No. 5, May — Agricultural Laws in Missouri, 35 pages, 12,000 copies. 



Vol. 11, No. 6, June — Country Hams and Bacon, 53 pages, 12,000 copies. 



Vol. 11, No. 7, July — Blue Grass in Missouri, 40 pages, 12,000 copies. 



Vol. 11, No. 8, August — Peach Growing in Mi.ssouri (Koshkonong-Brandsville dis- 

 trict), 28 pages, 12,000 copies. 



Vol. 11, No. 9, September — Silo Facts from Missouri Farmers, 108 pages, 15,000 



copies. 



Vol 11, No. 10, October — Missouri Saddle Horse, 95 pages, 12,000 copies. 



Vol. 11, No. 11, November — Development of Home Economics Work in Missouri, 



23 pages, 12,000 copies. 



Vol. 11, No. 12, December — Missouri Crop Review for 1913, 23 pages, 12,000 copies. 



Annual report, 658 pages, 12,500 copies. 



Booklet. "Missouri Peaches," 32 pages, 12,000 copies. 



This makes a total of 15,495,000 pages of printed literature 

 in 1913, not including the monthly crop report. 



AUTHORITATIVE CROP REPORTS. 



Our crop reports, made up from estimates supplied by more 

 than 600 correspondents representing the 114 counties of the 

 State, are issued during the months of April, May, June, July, 



