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souri College of Agriculture. We believe we have a body of students 

 located all over the State of Missouri who are as truly studying under our 

 guidance the great fundamental facts of production as are the students 

 here enrolled. Thousands of people are now willing and anxious to take 

 advantage of the results which have been secured in our investigations 

 here at the Missouri College of Agriculture, and as the result of the en- 

 couragement it lias had on the part of the present Board of Curators, 

 and the present President of the University, a great deal has been ac- 

 complished in tliis line during the past year. 



I want to empliasize the fact that the College of Agriculture is doing 

 some work outside of Columbia for the farmers of IMissouri, and it has 

 accomplished this so far, let me say, without any special appropriation 

 for this work. During the past year the men from the College of Agri- 

 culture have delivered 460 public addresses outside of Columbia at vari- 

 ous points in the State. The correspondence of the men in the College 

 of Agriculture has reached the annual total of 40,000 letters, and most 

 of these require personal answers. The Station has published 22 bul- 

 letins during the year, and these 22 bulletins have contained four million 

 pages of printed matter. It was at this Station, perhaps, that the most 

 complete work in the inoculation of hogs for hog cholera has been done, 

 and as a result of the perfection of that treatment the Veterinary De- 

 partment has inoculated during the past year 50,000 hogs and saved 80 

 to 85 per cent from death. This is a saving of more than a half million 

 dollars a year to the farmers of Missouri. 



Our men have judged at 42 live stock and 67 corn shows in the 

 State. There were in attendance upon those exhibitions more than 450,- 

 000 people. We have organized 16 outlying experiment farms. The 

 farmer sometimes tells us when we attempt to advise him as to methods 

 of farming — "Oh well, that will probably work up there in Columbia 

 where you have the State behind you and a large farm and all modern 

 conveniences, but it won't M^ork out here." Fortunately, at the present 

 time we are often able to say to that farmer, "We have an outlying 

 experiment field about two miles from your farm in Avhich we have 

 worked out that i)articular problem, and if you will go over there you 

 will see what has been accomplished." We have organized 360 farmers 

 in a co-operative Experiment Association, carrying on experiments in 

 better methods of farming directly with the farmer. We have covered 

 the State with out fertilizer inspection, and you are safe in purchasing 

 commercial fertilizers in Missouri today, because the Experiment Station 

 inspects every brand of fertilizer sold in the State and sees to it that the 

 manufacturer's guarantee is correct. No firm can do business in this 



