EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING 



Improved Live Stock Breeders' Association 



(Convened in Agricultural College, Columbia, January 12 and 13, 1905. 

 Held under the auspices of the State Board of Agriculture.) 

 Abstract of Addresses Delivere'"' 



PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL ADDRESS. 



(Benton Gabbert, De.iib)rn, Mo.) 



We have in our program some subjects that will be a delicious treat 

 ■coming from practical men engaged in the calling they propose to dis- 

 ■cuss. The life of a meeting of this kind is in the exchange of ideas; 'in 

 the discussions of the papers presented ; and in the discussion of the 

 methods and manner of doing things. It is the doers and not the 

 theorizers that have the public ear and the public confidence in these 

 strenuous times. The doers— the men that make a success, are the ones 

 we want to hear from, and the man in this company who remains silent 

 when he knows or wants to know something is injuring himself and 

 others. 



At (Air last annual meeting the papers read were hopeful. I thought 

 we had reached bedrock in low prices for pedigreed stock, but I find 

 that the four beef breeds have this year lowered the record fully one- 

 third from last year, and more than two-thirds from 1902. This is a 

 statement from the Breeders' Gazette of cattle sales. 



AVERAGE NUMBER OF OVTTLE SOLD AT EACH SALE. 



