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at the service of every farmer seeking the same. These bankers 

 seem to have overlooked the fact that we are engaged in such work 

 and that we have not only invited but craved the co-operation which 

 they can give. These institutions are endeavoring to promote 

 the very thing that we urge. I therefore plead for a union of the 

 forces and invite the bankers and all other business men and insti- 

 tutions that are nursing similar beliefs to do their work through 

 the agricultural societies. 



If there is a donation to be made for the encouragement of 

 intensified farming or for the employment of experts for the educa- 

 tion of the farmer along scientific lines, why should it not be made 

 through the agricultural society which has been conceived and 

 organized for that very purpose? If the bankers of the State 

 have decided to raise a fund for such a purpose, why should it not 

 be intrusted to the county agricultural and mechanical society? I 

 call your attention now to the fact that our Legislature is in ses- 

 sion; that among other such bills, there will be one introduced 

 amending our present law, making it broad enough to compass ail 

 that may or can be done along the lines in which we are working, 

 so that there will be no need of going outside of the agricultural 

 and mechanical society for any such work. I hope that every mem- 

 ber of this organization will lend his special aid toward the passage 

 of the bill. 



We need not worry or concern ourselves about the success of 

 our annual fairs. When the interest in production is developed, a 

 great fair follows as a natural sequence. If we can locate on every 

 farm in our respective counties a foundation herd of pure-bred 

 stock, we have made the fair indispensable. If we can show the 

 farmer how to make his land grow two portions of increase where 

 now he grows but one, an agricultural hall or school will adorn 

 the grounds of every agricultural and mechanical society in the 

 State, and our State Agricultural College will be fed on the cream 

 of our commonwealth, the country boy. 



Do not worry about the fair but pull for the union of the 

 forces that will make the fair inevitable and indispensable. 



I therefore recommend that we continue our organization 

 work along these lines. Let us work with all the enthusiasm that 

 our zeal can generate to make Missouri a state of highly developed 

 farms; a state of the best roads in the world; a state of farmer- 

 statesmen, not politicians, but real statesmen ; a state pledged by 

 purpose and by precept to the elimination of the useless and the 



