400 Missouri Agricultural Report. 



The value of Missouri's surplus farmyard products for a single 

 year is almost three times as great as the price paid for all that 

 vast territory represented by the Louisiana Purchase, and of which 

 Missouri is a part. 



The 1,388,742 head of cattle marketed by Missouri stockmen 

 in 1907 did not bring as much by a few thousand dollars as did 

 the surplus poultry products of the State for the same period. Yet, 

 Missouri is a great cattle State. 



The 3,878,863 head of hogs and the 817,430 head of sheep, 

 representing Missouri's surplus pork and mutton producers for 

 the year 1907, did not equal in value her farmyard products sold 

 the same year. Yet, Missouri is a great hog and sheep State. 



All the surplus mine, quarry, stone and clay products mined, 

 quarried or manufactured in Missouri during the year 1907 did 

 not foot up as many dollars as was represented by the surplus 

 poultry products for that year. Yet, Missouri is a great mining 

 State. 



During the year 1907 Missouri produced 23,929,332 surplus 

 bushels of wheat, but it brought less than half as much as did the 

 poultry, eggs and feathers sold during the same twelve months. 

 Yet, Missouri is a great wheat State. 



The estimated yield of corn in Missouri during the year 1907 

 was placed at 232,541,324 bushels, worth $103,561,401, but large 

 as are these figures, they are less than two and one-half times as 

 great as the surplus — not the total — poultry products for the same 

 period. Yet, Missouri is a great corn State. 



If the surplus eggs produced in Missouri during the year 

 1907 were laid in a row, end to end, they would extend more than 

 twice around the earth. 



Pre-eminent as is Missouri's place in commercial poultry pro- 

 duction, her fame is not alone confined to this field. Her breeders 

 of pure-bred birds have won high honors in the leading shows of 

 the land. To a Missouri breeder belongs the distinction of having 

 raised the highest priced pen of chickens ever sold. Here, too, 

 is the home of what is said to be the highest priced hen in the 

 world. Birds of the various breeds sometimes sell for hundreds 

 of dollars each, and a few have reached the four-figure mark. In 

 Missouri there seems to be that "something" — it may be the cli- 

 mate, which has much to do with constitution — that gives to the 

 fancy bird, intelligently cared for, a near approach to perfection. 



The large number of pure-bred birds in Missouri is helping 

 to give to the State a reputation for the high quality and unsur- 



