Rep07't of Missouri Farmers' Week. 



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my observation during the last few years in visiting different feed 

 lots in many states as well as different experiment stations, that by 

 mixing cottonseed or cotton cake, or oil meal, alfalfa meal or 

 molasses feed with your corn, you can reduce the cost of your gains 

 very materially and get much larger gains in the same length of 

 time, and your cattle come to market in better condition ; their gen- 

 eral appearance is much better as their hair is slick and fine. Just 

 here I would like to impress upon your minds the great and bene- 

 ficial work that our experimental stations are doing at our agri- 

 cultural colleges all over the middle west. From personal acquaint- 

 ance with President Waters of Kansas, Professor Curtis of Iowa, 

 Dean Mumford of Missouri and Dean Davenport of Illinois, as well 

 as Professor Mumford of Illinois, Dean Skinner of Indiana and their 

 splendid assistants. Professor Cochel, Professor King, Professor 

 Rusk and Professor Allison, I can more fully appreciate the great 

 and beneficial work they are doing for the agricultural colleges and 

 the live stock industry. 



The silage test of Messrs. Skinner and King of Indiana agri- 

 cultural experiment station on their last beef making experiment 

 with silage shows interesting results, and the bulletin is worth 

 reading and studying by every beef maker in the corn belt. 



In conclusion, just a word about feeders. My experience has 

 been, to buy rugged cattle with good bone of any of the beef breeds 

 regardless of color — cattle as even in size, age, weight and flesh as 

 possible. 



Blessed is the farmer! I consider it one of God's greatest 

 blessings to be a tiller of the soil and to see the crops grow and 

 mature, to live in the sunshine and drink in the pure air, and to 

 commune with nature. 



