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you to your various homes, and disseminated by you throughout the 

 State; and that all of our farmers will be greatly benefited by these 

 meetings, and that all of the farmers will soon recognize the value of these 

 annual meetings. While you are here, we want you to visit every depart- 

 ment of our State University. All ]\Iissourians should be proud of our 

 State University — proud that we have a State University, and proud of 

 what it is and has been for the boys and girls of old Missouri. We want 

 you to learn the song, "Old Missouri," and sing it in your homes, on the 

 farm, in the villages and at the cross roads. We w^ant you to talk the 

 University so much that every boy and every girl in IMissouri will long 

 to attend this institution. In every home in our State there should be 

 at least one graduate of one of the departments of the IMissouri State 

 University. When the farmers of our State appreciate the value of 

 our great University it will then receive that support, moral and finan- 

 cial, which it should receive, and which will enable it to become what it 

 should be — the greatest educational institution in our great West. 



We, therefore, welcome you to our town and to our homes, to our 

 University and your University, to our Agricultural College and your 

 Agricultural College; and we trust that your meeting here will be so 

 pleasant and so profitalile that you will make Columbia your permanent 

 meeting place. Ladies and gentlemen, the town is yours — we are glad 

 to see you here. 



WHAT CAN BE DONE ON TWENTY ACRES. 



(Arnold Martin, Dubois, Nebraska, at Missouri Farmers' Week.) 



I came into this country a few years ago, having spent my early 

 boyhood on a six-acre farm in Switzerland among the foot-hills which 

 are along the River Rhine. My life was spent on the small farm. I 

 had the advantage of taking an agricultural education in the public 

 school and the county high school, besides a practical home training 

 which, in my mind, did me more good than anything else. The oldest 

 among ten children in our family, I was taught self-support when I 

 was twelve years old. After our six-acre farm was worked I was allowed 

 to find work among the neighbors, and what I earned was my spending 

 money to get my clothing and to lay away for the future. In six years 

 I was able to aeeiunulato .i^68. My first bank account started with three 

 dollars. My best A\ages were 50 cents a day and my board. I was 

 always taught that the ownership of a piece of land was a mark of honor. 



