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DUROC JERSEY HOGS. 



In all classes Alissouri made a good showing and received a full 

 share of the prizes, and fully sustained the reputation of the State, as 

 being the first live stock State in the Union. 



For a complete list of live stock prizes see classified list on another 

 page. 



MISSOURI POULTRY. 



The conditions which are favorable to Missouri as a live stock State 

 are equally favorable for the economic production of high class poultry. 

 According to the United States census, Missouri had in 1900 a greater 

 number of farms reporting poultry as one of the sources of income than 

 any state except Texas. Of the whole number of farms in the State 

 284,886, ninety-four per cent, or 265,203 produce poultry. Since the 

 census year prices of poultry have advanced and a greatly increased 

 product has been the result. It is estimated by the State Board of Agri- 

 culture that for the year 1904 Missouri produced chickens, turkeys, 

 geese and ducks to the value of $12,573,330; eggs were produced to the 

 amount of 93,723,620 dozens, valued at $11,715,450; feathers valued at 

 $305,000 ; a grand total of the poultry product for one year of $24,593,780. 



Missouri Poultry at the World's Fair. — Missouri breeders made at 

 the World's Fair, to compete with the finest poultry of the world, 1,142 

 entries of chickens, turkeys, geese and ducks, 242 entries of pigeons and 

 pheasants and 86 in Belgian hares and rabbits, exceeding the whole num- 

 ber from all other states and territories. Missouri won 377 premiums out 

 of a possible 617, a record never before equalled. Of the first prizes 

 awarded in the different classes of poultry Missouri raisers won the fol- 

 lowing : Seventeen first prizes on chickens ; six on turkeys and two on 

 ducks. 



MINES AND METALLURGY. 



Wealth of Minerals. — Nature was lavish in her gifts for the great 

 State of Missouri. She not only provided the State with vast areas of 

 valuable forests and with immense plains of rich agricultural lands, but 

 she stored in the hidden recesses of the earth a multitude of minerals 

 which the present partial development would make us believe "that in 



