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being on display. At that time it was freely predicteci that the 

 show could not grow much more, but this year 666 entries were 

 on display and the quality was up to the average, the quality of 

 the small grains being far above that of any previous year. 



The annual show is conducted by the members of the Mis- 

 souri Corn Growers' Association purely as an educational exhi- 

 bition where the various types of corn and small grain best 

 adapted to Missouri conditions may be compared and criticised. 

 New classes have been added to the show each year so that at 

 the present time prizes are offered for seed of practically all the 

 most common Missouri crops. Each year the membership in 

 the association increases, and it is earnestly hoped that the year 

 1914 will see at least 1,000 of the best farmers in Missouri united 

 in the organization whose object is the betterment of Missouri 

 crops. Surely there are at least ten men in each county who 

 would be profited by membership in the Missouri Corn Growers' 

 Association. 



The Missouri boys' corn growing contest, the junior division 

 of the Corn Growers' Association, had a chance this past year to 

 prove its real worth, and many boys who planted corn in the 

 spring of 1913 would have given up the fight when the dry 

 weather came on had it not been for the encouraging information 

 sent to them. Careful work surely did repay these boys during 

 the past year. The winning acre in the boys' acre-yield contest 

 yielded nearly 110 bushels of corn, this being only three-fourths 

 of a bushel less than has been reported by a member of the Mis- 

 souri boys' corn growing contest in any previous year. There 

 are 10,000 farm boys in the State of Missouri who should enroll 

 in the boys' corn growing contest in 1914. Too much credit for 

 the success of the work with the boys cannot be given to the rural 

 school teachers and county school superintendents who have 

 interested the boys in the boys' corn growing contest. 



The educational work of the Missouri Corn Growers' Asso- 

 ciation has accomplished some splendid results. The efforts dur- 

 ing the past ten years have been directed mainly to the spreading 

 of good seed corn to every section of the State, but much atten- 

 tion is now being given to breeding corn for yield and to the 

 adaptation of corn and small grain varieties to Missouri con- 

 ditions. 



Awards in acre-yield contest were as follows: 



Men's Acre-Yield Contest, North Missouri Bottom Land — 

 1, Thos. Slawson, Rea; 2, R. A. Hatfield, Trenton; 3, W. A. 

 Jordan, Shelbina. 



