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Missouri Farm Management Association. 



OFFICERS. 



President — R. S. Harriman, Pilot Grove. 

 Vice-President — T. C. Cochran, Lockwood. 

 Secretary-Treasurer — Don G. Magruder, Columbia. 



ADVISORY BOARD. 



D. H. Doane, Columbia; F. B. Mumford, Columbia; Dr. W. P. 

 Dysart, Columbia. 



D. H. Doane. 



MISSOURI FARM MANAGEMENT. 



(D. H. Doane, in charge of Farm JVIanagement in Missouri.) 



During the early summer of 1906 the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, through the Office of 

 Farm Management, started farm management in- 

 vestigation work in the State of Missouri, and from 

 that ^late until the beginning of 1910 it was con- 

 tinuously carried on. The purpose of the work was 

 to study the results that the farmers had gathered 

 from practical experiences, to determine, if possible, 

 what the most successful methods and operations 

 were that the farmers themselves had worked out; 

 in short, to get right down to the practical facts as 

 they existed on the farms in ]\Iissouri under all the varied conditions as 

 they are found here. After spending about four years at this, the demon- 

 stration work was started. This consisted of putting into practice the 

 results of the investigations. Farmers who requested our assistance 

 were visited and complete plans w^ere suggested to them for the carrying 

 on of every detail of the farm operations. 



One year has passed since this latter phase of our work was started, 

 and today we have some rather gratifying reports to make. From one 

 farm, where a number of hundred head of hogs are fed annually, the 

 report comes that by following one of our suggestions a car load of corn 

 was saved on the summer feeding. From another farm in Franklin 

 county a farmer says, "AVhen you found me I was ready to give up. I 

 could not sec my way out. But, the last year has made a hole in the 

 stone wall, and I now know that I am on my feet and success is sure to 

 come. ' ' 



