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Missouri Agricultural Report. 



AVERAGE YIELDS IN BUSHELS PER ACRE FOR NORTH MISSOURI FOR THE YEARS 



1906, 1907 AND 1908. 



*Yield.s calculated from 1907. 



AVERAGE YIELDS IN BUSHELS PER ACRE FOR SOUTH MISSOURI FOR THE YEARS 



1906, 1907 AND 1908. 



WHAT ARE WE TO DO WITH OUR SOILS? 



(By Hon. Milton Whitney, Chief Bureau of Soils, United States Department of Agriculture.) 



I have heard with interest w^hat the State of Missouri is doing 

 in the direction of soil investigations and surveys. The soil, w^ith 

 v^ater, is the one great inexhaustible asset of the nation. If the 

 forests are not kept up, if the coal and iron are exhausted, w^e have 

 the soil to depend on to furnish food, clothing, heat and habitation 

 for the nation. It is the greatest of all our resources, and, for- 

 tunately, it seems to be inexhaustible. 



At the recent Conference of Governors at the White House 

 to consider the state of our natural resources, the question of the 



