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state, accompanied by such recommendations, including especially 

 such a system of public instruction on these subjects, as may be 

 deemed useful. 



Sec, 604. Printing and distribution of annual report. — The 

 public printer shall annually, under the direction of the secretary 

 of the state board of agriculture, print as many copies of the annual 

 report as may, in the judgment of the board, be required for dis- 

 tribution to the public libraries in the state, to the members of the 

 general assembly, to local agricultural societies and farmers' insti- 

 tutes and elsewhere, and as may be authorized by the appropria- 

 tion of the general assembly made therefor. 



NEW MEMBERS BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



In the forty-fourth annual report of this Board, brief sketches 

 of the corporate and ex officio members and of the officers and em- 

 ployes of the Board were given. Since the publication of that 

 report Missouri has elected a new Governor, who becomes an ex 

 officio member of the State Board of Agriculture. Two changes 

 have also been made in the corporate members of the Board. The 

 following sketches, together with those published last year, give the 

 Missouri farmers an opportunity to know something of the men 

 who serve them. 



Elliott W. Major (Democrat), Governor of Missouri. — Born in 

 Lincoln county, Missouri, October 20, 1864. Educated in the pubhc 

 schools and at Watson Seminary. Was united in marriage with 

 Miss Elizabeth Meyers in 1887. Has three children. Mr. Major 

 studied law in the office of Hon. Champ Clark, and upon entering 

 the practice of his profession soon became one of the best-known 

 lawyers in his section of the State. He served as Senator from the 

 Eleventh district, being elected in 1896. He was chosen a member 

 of the commission revising the statutes in 1899. He was nominated 

 for Attorney-General of Missouri on the Democratic ticket at the 

 State primary, August 4, 1908, without opposition, and was elected 

 at the following general election. As Attorney-General, he success- 

 fully prosecuted some of the most important cases in which the 

 State has ever been interested. In 1912 he was named as a 

 Democratic candidate for governor of Missouri and in November 

 was elected by an overwhelming majority, his vote being especially 



