The Missouri Corn Growers' Association. 



Motto: "Increase the yield — improve the quality.'" 



OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION. 



F. H. Crowell, Butler, President. 



C. B. Hutchison, Columbia, Secretary-Treasurer. 



T. R. Douglass, Columbia, Assistant Secretary. 



VICE PRESIDENTS. 



0. J. White, Fairfax. M. McCauley, Doniphan. 



W. H. Brown, Clarksville. Sanford Smith, Reeds. 



Christ. Ohlendorf, Boonville. 



(C. B. Hutchison, Assistant Professor of Agronomy, University of Missouri.) 

 Secretary Missouri Corn Growers' Association. 



The Missouri Corn Growers' Association was 

 organized in 1903 by the students of the College of 

 Agriculture of the University of Missouri to pro- 

 .mote and further the improvement of corn grow- 

 ing in Missouri. At the time of organization little 

 systematic effort was being made to improve the corn 

 crop of Missouri except by a few individuals, and it 

 was with the idea of bringing these men together 

 in a more effective working body that this organiza- 

 tion was founded. Starting with a few students as 

 members, the Association has grown and prospered 

 until now its membership includes the foremost corn growers and breed- 

 ers of this State. 



The Association has always had an annual meeting in connection 

 with the Corn Show, both of which are held each year during Farmers' 

 Week at the College of Agriculture. The Association has had an im- 

 portant part in the development of Farmers' Week and was one of the 

 tirst organizations of this kind to establish the custom of having its 

 annual meeting at this time. At these annual meetings papers are read 

 and subjects, relating to the growing and breeding of corn, discussed 

 by the most noted specialists in this work that the nation affords. These 

 meetings have proven to be a combined school and conference for Mis- 

 souri corn growers, and much good to the cause of Agriculture in gen- 

 eral has resulted from them. 



C B. Hutchison. 



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