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Missouri Agricultural Report. 



so far as the horses themselves are concerned, and the founda- 

 tion men to produce and train these horses. 



I want to call your attention to a bulletin just issued by the 

 State Board of Agriculture, "The Missouri Saddle Horse," by 

 Prof. E. A. Trowbridge, Rufus Jackson and W. L. Nelson. This 

 publication impresses me as one of the best that the Missouri 

 Board of Agriculture has ever issued. This is true for two rea- 

 sons: In the first place, it is giving information to the world 

 and to us of our own resources. Here in Missouri we are all too 

 much inclined to look to some far-off country for many of the 

 things we have and to think that others are doing better work 

 than we. Let us all do what we can to exploit our own great re- 

 sources. Secondly, this bulletin appeals to me because it is 

 well written and by men who know what they are talking about. 

 For the benefit of your secretary I want to say that I read this 

 bulletin from cover to cover, and this is a thing which I do not have 

 time to do very often. I agree with Mr. Nelson that 

 this is a type of bulletin that we ought to be encouraging, so at 

 the last meeting a few of us who were interested in this said to 

 the Board of Agriculture that they ought to get Mr. Jackson 

 and all the saddle horse men in this State to furnish information 

 to add to this bulletin so that in a few years we could issue a 

 more complete publication. 



Scene at Missouri State Fair Grounds, Sedalia, 1913. Horses in $2,500 stake. 



