Farmers' Week in Agiiciiltiiral Colleofe. 



January 9-12, 1906. 



Third Annual Meeting Missouri Corn Growers' Association 



and Ninth Annual Meeting Missouri Improved 



Live Stock Breeders' Association. 



(Held under the auspices of the State Board of Agriculture.) 

 An Abstract of the Addresses Delivered. 



Opening Session. 



ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 



(Dr. J. O. Jones, Acting President, State University ) 



Mr. Chairman, Gentlemen of the Farmers' Convention : 



In the absence of our President, Dr. Jesse, who, on account of his 

 health, has retired for a brief season from the duties of the University, 

 it becomes my pleasure and my privilege to welcome you to the Uni- 

 versity of Missouri. 



In the first place I want to welcome you to your University ; it is 

 in every sense the University of the people of this State — supported 

 by them both in regard to money and patronage and from the farmers' 

 sons and daughters by far the larger part of the student corps has for 

 many years been made up and is yet made up and I hope this condition 

 will continue for many many years. I welcome you to your University 

 that within a month I think (perhaps in a shorter period of time) will 

 enroll more than 2,000 students. I welcome }T>u to the University that 

 has all the consolation of age, because it is not a youth and yet has 



