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the Missouri station would also be to a very great extent a waste 

 of money. To avoid either of these results the Missouri Station 

 approached the Bureau of Soils with a plan of co-operation in soil 

 work in Missouri in January. The plan was accepted, and has been 

 officially agreed upon by the directors of the Missouri Agricultural 

 Experiment Station and Soil Survey and by the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture and the Chief of the Bureau of Soils. By this plan of co- 

 operation the Missouri station is given general charge of all the 

 soil survey work in Missouri, the Director of the Missouri Survey 

 being made Special Agent also, of the Bureau of Soils. The 

 Bureau of Soils agrees to furnish and pay the salaries of half the 

 field men, the Missouri Station the other half. The field expenses 

 of the survey parties are to be shared equally by the two organi- 

 zations. The Bureau agrees also to pay for the engraving of all 

 maps, except those to which the Missouri Station may desire some 

 extra data added, and to pay for the typesetting of all reports. 

 The Bureau agrees also to pay all expenses of supervision. 



By this plan of work the Missouri Station will be able to do 

 the work according to its own plans, which will be based on the 

 intimate knowledge of the needs of the various parts of the SLate 

 possessed by the Experiment Station officers, and the State will be 

 required to pay less than half the total cost of the work. 



A TWELVE-ACRE FARM. 



(Hon. Matt. W. Hall, Warden Missouri State Penitentiary.) 



I will tell you what I have accomplished with twelve acres of 

 land in Jefferson City, owned by the Missouri penitentiary. In 

 1905, when I took charge of the penitentiary, I found there a 

 small tract of land owned by the State. There were about twelve 

 acres of land that could be cultivated, if you could prevent its 

 washing off. This entire tract of land was rented, with a good 

 house and barn, for $350 a year. In the fall of 1905, as soon as 

 the man who had it rented, got his crop out of the way, I began to 

 fertilize it by hauling all the manure that I could get about Jef- 

 ferson City, and distribute it over this piece of land. The twelve 

 acres of ground I decided to put into a garden. The first year I 

 planted it in various garden truck, and raised $1,200 worth of 

 vegetables, aiming to estimate their value at the current wholesale 

 prices from time to time. As soon as I got some of the early veg- 



