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Looking to the future, I would like to recommend : 



First — that this Board appoint a standing committee whose 

 duty it shall be to work for legislation bringing about the estab- 

 lishment of secondary schools and courses of study for the teach- 

 ing of Agriculture, Home Economics and other industrial studies. 

 Missouri has a harvest of 15,000 farm boys and 15,000 country 

 girls ripening into manhood and womanhood every year, and 

 scarcely any provision is made for training them along the lines 

 of their future life work. 



Second — that an appropriation be asked for from the 45 Gen- 

 eral Assembly, providing for an immigration agency under the 

 direction of the Board, to the end that desirable immigrants may be 

 brought into the State, and assist in developing our great natural 

 resources. 



Third — that following the recommendation of the late Dairy 

 and Food Commissioner, that the legislature separate the work of 

 dairy development and instruction from the police and food in- 

 spection work, and that the instruction be put in charge of the 

 Board of Agriculture. 



Fourth — The precedent of giving State aid for road improve- 

 ment having been established by the 44th General Assembly the 

 Board should urge an appropriation of not less than $500,000, to 

 be used only for permanent road work and conditioned upon the 

 counties spending a like amount. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Geo. B. Ellis, Secretary. 



ABOUT THANKSGIVING TIME. 



