REPORT OF SECRETARY. I7 



State, and make the quality of our stock such that the fact that an ani- 

 mal is bred in Missouri will make it standard everywhere the world 

 over. 



The ninth annual meeting of this Association will be held in the 

 Agricultural College during farmers' week, January 9-12, 1906, and 

 the reputation of the men on the program is a sufficient guarantee that 

 a rare treat is in store for those who will attend the meeting. I would 

 like to suggest the advisability of the Board of Agriculture convening 

 in a body during farmers' week in the Agricultural College and lend 

 their assistance to the work that is being promoted by the different state 

 conventions. The officers of this Association, like those of the Corn 

 Growers' Association, give their time, their talent and of their means 

 to the support of the organization without any hope of remuneration 

 whatever. 



State Dairy Convention. — The State Dairy Association, while not 

 directly under the auspices of the State Board of Agriculture, has, for 

 the last five years, been given every possible assistance that we could 

 render. The fifteenth annual meeting of this Association was held in 

 Brookfield, February 15-17, 1905; and, I am pleased to say, was the 

 most successful meeting of the Association held up to this time. Large- 

 ly as a result of that convention, the last Legislature enacted a law pro- 

 viding for the appointment of a State Dairy Commissioner and Assistant. 

 The Governor made these appointments last June, and since that time 

 these officers have been occupied in the up-building of the dairy business 

 of this State. With the proper encouragement from our State Legis- 

 lature, Missouri is destined in the near future to become the greatest 

 dairy State of the Union. 



The sixteenth annual meeting of the State Dairy Association was 

 held November 15-17, 1905, in Jefferson City, and a most excellent 

 program was rendered ; and the proceedings of the convention will be 

 published in bulletin form and distributed from, this office to the far- 

 mers of the State. 



State Poultry Association. — I am pleased to say that the differences 

 between the factions, existing in the State Poultry Association, have 

 been settled and that organization is now on a good working basis. We 

 have this year lent the assistance of this office to the officers of the 

 State Poultry Association by giving financial aid from our Institute fund 

 for the holding of a State Poultry Institute at Kirksville, December 

 12-16. In my opinion no better use of the State's money can be made 

 than for the encouragement and support of the different agricultural 

 associations. 



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