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MISSOURI AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



DAIRYING. 

 (From the Report of the Missouri Commission.) 



The history of dairying in Missouri is not unlike that of other coun- 

 tries. It's a story of early obscurity and future prominence. It's an old 

 story and yet like the old, old story of love that for six thousand years 

 has been whispered in the ears of millions of willing listeners, and mil- 

 lions more of impatient, anxious mortals are waiting for it to be told 

 over and over again to them, it is ever refreshing and acceptable to all 

 of the people of some countries and some of the people of all countries. 



Since the persistent wandering of a nation of people, thousands of 

 years ago, for forty years in the wilderness, to keep from getting into 



IIOLSTEIN I'.n.T- "SAKCASTIC LAD." 

 Champion aged bull and grand champion, all agos, St. Louis, in04. Now owned by 

 Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station. 



a dairy country where they would have to milk, history has repeated 

 itself many times and the favorable conditions that have existed in dif- 

 ferent sections for doing a profitable dairy business has been disregarded 

 for the promotion of some other branch of agriculture less profitable. 



