644 Missouri Agricultural Report. 



SETTING EXAMPLE FOR OTHER STATES. 



The New York (N. Y.) Independent paid Missouri a mighty 

 fine tribute in the following editorial: 



It is not the demand of the motor car men that led Governor Major of Missouri to 

 set apart two days in which the men of the State were aslied to volunteer to work on the 

 roads of the State — it was the farm wagons and the humbler carriages which take the farm- 

 ers to market and church that needed the day 



They say that when the youth, Abraham Lincolp, saw a slave sold at auction in New 

 Orleans he vowed that if he ever had the chance he would hit that wrong, and he did hit it 

 hard. Governor Major reports that he suflered so much as a boy from the "slews" and 

 bad roads of his native county that he made a vow to do what he could to make them fit 

 to travel on and that was long before he traveled by gasoUne. 



Governor Major will be remembered as he who blessed the people with good roads 

 days, and already the Governor of Arkansas has followed the example, and the Governor of 

 Kansas was so enthusiastic over it that he put on overalls with his brother of Missouri, at 

 his invitation, and worked by his side. The two were one, even as Kansas City is one In 

 fact, although divided by the state line. 



THE RESULT OF A GOOD EXAMPLE. 



The Kansas City Star was one of the foremost of the good 

 roads days boosters, and the following excerpt touches a force- 

 ful point full of truth as to sentiment: 



Governor Major's road days ought to have this lasting effect' When once the State 

 has actually experienced the advantages from better roads it will be unwilling to go back 

 to mud and holes and bumps. 



TWO GOVERNORS AS ROAD OVERSEERS. 



One of the prominent manufacturers of traction road ma- 

 chinery loaned the State executive a giant engine and road 

 grading machine for use on the two days — and Governor Major, 

 Governor Hodges, Congressman Shackleford and Commissioner 

 BulTum did personal duty in overalls driving the engine and 

 handling the grader. 



MOVING PICTURES TO OTHER STATES. 



The moving picture cameras worked overtime, and the 

 good roads films were not only exhibited in Missouri but were in 

 demand in every state in the Union. These films did much to 

 stir sentiment for state-wide movements. Among the states 

 that are reported as issuing proclamations like unto Missouri 

 may be mentioned Minnesota, Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, 

 Alabama and Illinois. Missouri will have two good roads days 

 again this year. 



DROUTH BROKE WITH THESE DAYS. 



The unprecedented drouth broke with the coming of the 

 good roads holidays. The first rain began on the 18th and con- 

 tinued into the next day. The 20th was cloudless and hot. 



