SECOND ANNUAL MEETING, 



Missouri Corn Growers' Association. 



Convened in Agricultural College, January 12, 1905. (Held under the 

 auspices of the State Board of Agriculture.) 



Abstract of Addresses Delivered. 



PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL ADDRESS. 



(E. E. Laughlin, Rich Hill, Mo.) 



The Missouri Corn Growers' Association is entering upon its second 

 year. I am glad to say the past year has been a prosperous one for the 

 Association, however disastrous it has been for the corn crop. We 

 were in a new field, not having a prestige to follow, nor having many 

 breeders of pure-bred seed corn in the State. But if we keep up our 

 pace in corn agitation, we will soon be abreast or ahead of our neighbor 

 states. 



Last year we encouraged members to write essays for the agricul- 

 tural press. Others outside were moved to write, thus stimulating edi- 

 tors to give editorial space for corn. This had its part in causing a gen- 

 eral awakening in the subject. At our farmers' institutes the prevalent 

 interest to know more about corn was in evidence by the large audi- 

 ences when the corn talks were announced. 



The Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture has done much to 

 make our association popular. It is always gratifying to have a Con- 

 vention reported. The report of our first annual meeting was printed 

 in bulletin form and given general distribution, and in advertising the 

 farmers' institutes, the Missouri Corn Growers' Association Bulletin was 

 generously used. We hope the coming year this literature can be ex- 

 tended to still more good. Along with good reading it has seemed wise 

 to show good seed ears at farmers' institutes and I am sure will be pro- 



