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Governor Major operating road grader. 



BOARD OF AGRICULTURE THE PIONEERS. 



Governor Major and the people generally recognize the 

 Missouri State Board of Agriculture as being the pioneer good 

 roads boosters. The development of sentiment during recent 

 years found its original foundation in the Board of Agriculture, 

 and in the recent call for the State convention to organize a 

 Missouri Better Roads Federation the State Board of Agricul- 

 ture members were unanimously made delegates at large as a 

 mark of honor for their record as good roads boosters and 

 builders. 



It is a most interesting fact that the Missouri State Board 

 of Agriculture "discovered" the King road drag, the one most 

 forceful factor in good roads making in America. To the vision 

 and practical wisdom of Secretary Geo. B. Ellis (now editor of 

 the Missouri Farmer) should be given the honor of having not 

 only "discovered" the road drag, but also of having persuaded 

 Mr. D. Ward King (its inventor) to begin lecturing in farmers' 

 institutes. The Board's "Road Drag Bulletin" was the first of 

 its kind ever published — and it attained the widest circulation 

 of any good roads literature ever issued. 



