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Missouri Agricultural Report. 



Farmers' Bureau of Informatioifi, through, which the farmer may receive 

 information on any subject relating to any phase of country life and 

 through which he may in turn give to others any important discovery 

 or demonstration he has made. As the result of this policy some of 

 the most valuable bulletins we have published have been those contain- 

 ing reports of methods of successful farmers. Among these we might 

 mention, first, the road drag bulletin by D. Ward King, a farmer of 

 Holt county, Missouri. This bulletin has been printed in the fifth 

 edition by the Board of Agriculture, and has since been published by 

 the United States Department of Agriculture, and has in its essential 

 features been printed by hundreds of newspapers and agricultural 

 journals, and millions of copies distributed throughout the United 

 States, Canada and other countries. Perhaps no other bulletin pub- 

 lished by this Board, or any other board or department in the whole coun- 

 tiy, has been given such wide publicity, and no other has been of greater 

 economic value. The two bulletins recently published on "Pastures for 

 Hogs" and "The Brood Sow and Her Litter," prepared by F. G. 

 King, live stock assistant of the Board, and the one on "Poultry Problems 



and Profits, ' ' prepared by W. L. Nel- 

 son, assistant secretary of the Board, 

 and also the one on ' ' Farm Practice in 

 Northeast Missouri , ' * 

 prepared by D. H. 

 Doane, a graduate of 

 the Agricultural Col- 

 lege in the service of 

 the United States De- 

 partment of Agricul- 

 ture, were the results 

 of getting a consensus 

 of opinions from the 



best farmers engaged 

 in these special indus- 



Illustration showing part of cover design used on book- 



lett, "A Tip on Missouri Corn." tries. SuCCeSsful farm 



practice must rest on a scientific basis, and from these the wise experi- 

 ment station man often gets valuable help and suggestions. The pub- 

 lication of the Monthly Bulletin was begun during my first year — 1901 — 

 and has proved a very popular publication. The number of annual 

 reports has been increased from 4,500 to 10,000 and, if the money were 

 available for this publication, two or three times this number could be 

 distributed to the great advantage of the State. 



