HON. NORMAN J. COLMAN, ST. LOUIS. MO. 



yir. Colman has done mote for the elevation of the rarmtrs of this country fhan 

 any other man living. He was the first Secretary of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture, having been appointed to that position by President Cleveland when the 

 department was made a cabinet position. He has been for many years a distinguished 

 member of the Missouri Board of Agriculture, and has always taken an active interest 

 in the proceedings of the Board. He was one of the foremost advocates for the estab- 

 lishment of a State Fair, and was the first President of the Fair Board, and is still 

 a member of that body. Gov. Colman. through the columns of the Unr;il World, an 

 agricultural journal which lie established and has edited for more than fifty years, wields 

 a powerful influt^nce among the farmei's, not only in Missouri, but throughout the entire 

 country. 



