ANNUAL MEETING. 



Office of Secretary, 

 Columbia, Mo., December 20, 1904. 



As provided by law, the State Board of Agriculture convened in 

 annual session at 7 130 p. m. In the absence of the President, the Board 

 was called to order by the Vice-President, Mr. C. F. Aiflick. The fol- 

 lowing order of business was transacted : 



Roll call by the Secretary, the following responding: W. T. Car- 

 rington, F. B. Mumford, C. F. Afflick, S. H. Prather, John Deerwester, 

 F. C. Hayman, W. C. Howell, Moses B. Greensfelder, Norman J. Col- 

 man, J. J. Conrad, J. J. McNatt and A. T. Nelson. 



Reading of the minutes of the previous meeting was dispensed with, 

 and upon motion of Governor Colman, the minutes were approved as 

 printed in the 36th annual report. 



The Secretary read the following report, which was accepted and 

 ordered printed in the 37th annual report : 



REPORT OF SECRETARY. 



Gentlemen of the Board of Agriculture : 



This meeting closes the work of the fortieth year of the existence 

 of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture, and I respectfully submit 

 herewith my report of the work of this ofifice for the year, with some 

 comments on what has been accomplished and suggestions looking to the 

 improvement of the work in the future. 



Representing, as this Board does, under the authority of the State, 

 all the agricultural interets of one of the leading live stock and crop- 

 producing commonwealths of the greatest agricultural nation on the 

 globe, we have no little onerous duty to perform. A retrospective view 

 of the forty years' record will show that the Board of Agriculture has 

 since its beginning been a very potent factor in organizing, promoting and 



