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Missouri Agricultural iltporl. 



Missouri Cattle Feeders' Association. 



OFFICERS. 



President — S. P. Houston, iMalta Bend. 

 Vice-President — S. W. McClure, Lamonte. 

 Second Vice-President— M. T. McGill, Perry. 

 Secretary-Treasurer — H. 0. Allison, Columbia. 



H. O. Allison. 



HISTORY OF CATTLE FEEDERS' ASSOCIATION. 



(H. O. Allison, Assistant Professor of Animal Husbandry, Agricultural College, Uni- 

 versity of Missouri.) 



The Missouri Cattle Feeders' Association was 

 organized in January, 1911, at a meeting of cattle 

 feeders called by the College of Agriculture of the 

 University of Missouri. The charter member- 

 ship of the organization numbered fifty and repre- 

 sented twenty-seven counties in the State. It is 

 expected that a large number of feeders represent- 

 ing the cattle feeding interests in all parts of the 

 State will eventually become members. 



A constitution and by-laws were adopted 

 which provide for a president, two vice-presidents 

 and a secretary-treasurer, to be elected each year at the annual meet- 

 ing. These officers constitute an executive committee, which has con- 

 trol of all business of the Association, except when the Association is 

 in session. 



A membership fee of one dollar ($1.00) per year, payable at each 

 annual meeting to the secretary-treasurer, was agreed upon for the 

 purpose of covering the incidental expenses of the organization. 



The purpose of the Association is to organize beef producers into 

 a working body of men to represent this special phase of agricultural 

 production. It is planned to hold at least one regular meeting each 

 year, the program for which wall be provided by the executive com- 

 mittee. Subjects of interest to cattle feeders will be discussed by the 

 best authorities it is possible to obtain. Experiment Station work will 

 be followed, particularly the cattle feeding tests conducted by the 

 Experiment Station at the University of Missouri. Associated sub- 

 jects, such as railroad transportation, markets and tariffs, will also 



