Farmers' Week in Agricultural College. 



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To hold an annual grain exhibit which shall surpass anything of its 

 kind in the United States. 



To establish a farm boys' agricultural organization with a grain 

 growing contest of mammoth proportions. 



To secure an active membership of 1,000 Missouri farmers. 



Every Missouri farmer who is interested in better agricultural con- 

 ditions will profit greatly by membership in the Association, Every 

 old member should bring in at least one new member this year and help 

 to make this the greatest year in the history of the Association and the 

 Corn Show next year the greatest one ever held. 



F. H. Croioell. 



ANNUAL ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT. 



(F. H. Crowell, Butler.) 



It affords me much satisfaction as I glance 

 over this splendid audience to note what an 

 interest is being taken in the growing of corn. 



When we realize that but seven short years 

 ago the first meeting was held in one of the class 

 rooms in the old Agricultural building, attended 

 by a few earnest students and seven or eight en- 

 thusiastic growers of seed corn, the contrast is so 

 great that one hesitates to prophecy for the 

 future. 



The members of the Corn Growers' Associa- 

 tion of Missouri may certainly congratulate themselves on the fine 

 exhibit of corn displayed in another part of this building. This is by 

 far the best and largest show we have ever held. There are specimens 

 gathered from the four corners of our State, all of excellent quality 

 and selected with care by the exhibitors who are determined to secure 

 one or more of the valuable premiums offered. Permit me at this time, 

 and in this public manner, to thank the donors of the various premiums 

 for their liberality and to assure them that the Association fully ap- 

 preciates all they have done in helping to make our show a success. 



When we consider the wonderful increase in the average number 

 of bushels of the corn crop of 1910 over the average for the preceding 

 ten years we may, I think, be pardoned a little egotism if we claim a 

 large share of credit for the result. Taking the total acreage of the 

 State as a basis, we find that in round numbers, there has been an in- 

 crease of twenty-seven millions of bushels. Figured at the rate of forty 



