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ing good well bred seed corn. The Association is ever ready to assist 

 such efforts. While the Association has made an effort to make each 

 corn grower in the State feel he must better his seed for the next year 

 and done much that can never be eft'aced from the annals of good 

 agriculture, still we have problems that must be solved in the future in a 

 scientific way. Some are storing and testing seed, exterminating of pests, 

 soils and manures in the different phases. All these will come through 

 the proper channel — the Experiment Station, Our station' has taken up 

 corn and I am assured more will be done in the future. 



Let us all grow well-bred seed corn, each becoming enthusiastic. 

 Study corn from spring till spring. It will expand the mind, it is a 

 clean upbuilding subject — one that we can learn from each year. When 

 we consider we have no really up-to-date corn book in print, that the 

 information has developed so rapidly that past editions have become 

 obsolete, it behooves us all to be on the alert, going over the subject that 

 we may be in the present, farming with the greatest grain crop, the 

 greatest commercial crop Missouri has. 



The Missouri State Corn Growers' Association is no experiment, 

 and it stands first among associations for good, and we hope will con- 

 tinue the speed from the impetus received the past three years. 



"Missouri Corn" — "Increase the Yield" — "Improve the Quality." 



SOME ESSENTIAL FACTORS IX CORN PRODUCTION. 



(Dr II. J. Waters, Dean Agricultural College.) 



The corn breeders here will discuss one very important and, 

 up to this time, very much neglected factor in corn growing, and that 



First prize yellow corn. State Corn Show, 190t). 



