22 Missouri Agricultural Report. 



No. 1 — Farm Practice in Northeast Missouri. 



No. 2— The Silo. 



No. 3 — Highway Engineers' Association. 



No. 4 — Boys' Corn-Growing Contest. 



No. 5 — Earth Roads. 



No. 6 — Raising Calves on Skim Milk. 



No. 7 — Highway Bulletin on Contracts. 



No. 7a — Experiments on Missouri Soils. 



No. 8 — Bridges and Culverts. 



No. 9 — Roads — Bad and Good. 



No. 10 — Parasitic Diseases of Sheep. 



No. 11 — Diseases of Bees. 



No. 12 — The Poultry Industry in Missouri. 



BOYS' ENCAMPMENTS. 



The first farm boys' encampment, or, more correctly speak- 

 ing, a summer school for farm boys, was held in Gentry county, 

 in August, 1907, under the management of S. M. Jordan, the insti- 

 tute specialist of the Board of Agriculture. The work was so suc- 

 cessful that it was thought wise to organize a number of encamp- 

 ments this year, and I am able to report that the work has been 

 most gratifying to this office. Encampments were held this year 

 at Maryville, Rockport, Kirksville, Butler and Sweet Springs. At 

 Maryville and Rockport, the attendance and interest were both in- 

 terfered with, because the meetings were held in connection with 

 their annual chautauquas. The largest meetings were at Butler, 

 with 255 boys present, and at Sweet Springs with 286 boys. The 

 work consisted of lectures on crop-growing, plant breeding, soil 

 improvement, animal husbandry, horticulture and dairying, and 

 exercises in corn judging, soil work and live stock judging. I con- 

 sider this work important for two reasons : First, for the direct 

 instruction of the boys; second, by interesting the boys in the 

 work of the Agricultural College. The methods of agriculture 

 could be greatly improved if not revolutionized in a few years if 

 a meeting of this kind could be held annually in each county. 



farmers' institutes. 



The farmers' institute work is settling down to a better sys- 

 tem, and the farmers are demanding instruction rather than en- 

 tertainment. The greatest difficulty that I find, however, is to 

 secure competent institute lecturers. The college faculty have not 



