Report of Missouri Farmers' Week. 



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natural resources through those artificial methods which we know 

 do get results. 



It does, however, matter very much to the Missouri farmer if 

 his State, through its officers, builds rock roads, encourages agri- 

 cultural development and stock raising and lends the great power 

 of the State to the promulgation of the idea that is now possessing 

 the Nation. This idea is expressed in the words, ''Back to the 

 Farm," 



Saddle horses at Boone County Fair, Columbia. 



I would say, "Forward to the Farm" as more fitting and ex- 

 pressive of the desired change. This association should emphasize 

 its purposes to the end that all the work for which we plead and 

 have been pleading should be done in each county through the 

 agricultural and mechanical societies that are designed by law to 

 do these very things. 



The bankers of the State are just now awakening to the ideas 

 that we have preached and promoted since the inception of our 

 organization. The Missouri State Bankers' Association, through 

 the various groups of that body, have recently arranged for mass 

 meetings in the several counties of this State for the purpose of 

 devising plans to put farm experts in every county, who will be 



