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 BULLETIN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI VOL. VIII NO. 12 
 
 ENTERED APRIL 12, 1903, AT COL 
 
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 kCT OF CONGRESS, 
 
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 AGRICULTURE AS A CAREER 
 
 HE only other persons whose welfare is as vital to the welfare of the whole country 
 as the welfare of the wage workers are the. tillers of the soil, the farmer. It is a 
 mere truism to say that no growth of cities, no growth of wealth, no industrial 
 development can atone for any falling off in the character and standing of the farming pop- 
 ulation. This means that there must be open to farmers the chance for technical 
 and scientific training, not theoretical merelv, but of the most severely practical type. The 
 farmer represents a peculiarly high type of American citizenship and he must have the same 
 chance to rise and develop as other American citizens have. All of this is peculiarly neces- 
 sary here in the United States where the frontier conditions even in the newest States have 
 now nearly vanished, where there must be a substitution of the more intensive system of 
 cultivation tor the old wasteful farm management." — President Theodore Roosevelt in message to 
 the Fifty-ninth Congress. 
 
 
 The show herd of fat steers fed by the .Missouri College of Agriculture in 1907, and exhibited at the Inter-State Fair. Kansas Citv, the Missouri State 
 Fair. Sedaha. the American Royal. Kansas City, and the International r.iye Stock Exposition. Chicago. Championship prizes won 9; First prizes 
 won, 17; Second prizes won, 10; Third prizes won, 7; Fourth prizes won, 2. Every steer won at every show, excepting one steer a1 one show 
 
THE FARMER OF THE FUTURE. 
 
 IT IS quite as much due to the boy who is to remain 
 on the farm that he be soundly educated as it is 
 to the boy who is to leave the 
 farm and become a physician, a 
 minister, an editor, or a mer 
 chant. It is due him not only 
 to insure his future success, but 
 likewise it is due to his call- 
 ing. It is only by this means 
 that the dignity of agriculture 
 is to be maintained, 
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 9 IT is not primarily a mat- 
 ter of increased financial 
 returns but has involved in it 
 the future welfare of America's 
 agriculture. Further ad- 
 vancement must be based 
 upon the increased intel- 
 ligence of the man who is 
 to till the soil together 
 with his better under- 
 standing of the funda- 
 mental laws of nature 
 with which he has to deal. 
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 91 F the American 
 farmer is to prove an exception to the history of 
 the world am! remain the independent, thinking, reading, 
 progressive individual that he has thus far been 
 instead of becoming a peasant, as he has before in all his- 
 tory, it is necessary that he be given the broadest 
 
 THE COLUMNS. 
 
 possible training and be educated most thoroughly 
 in the fundamental principles underlying his profession. 
 
 THE waste of the resources of the soil due to im- 
 proper methods of farming which has occurred in 
 the last century cannot con- 
 tinue another century with- 
 out bringing ruin to Ameri- 
 ca's basic industry and fam- 
 ine to the millions of people 
 who are dependent upon it. 
 We have at best but a life's 
 interest in the soil we 
 till and are under the 
 deepest moral obliga- 
 tions to hand it down 
 to the next generation 
 unimpaired in produc- 
 tiveness and value. As 
 large returns may be 
 obtained under intelli- 
 gent management and 
 by the aid of scientific 
 knowledge without de- 
 pleting the soil as are 
 now secured under a 
 system of land spoliation. This is a matter of concern 
 not only to the landowner but to the whole of society, 
 since the future welfare of our cities and factories and 
 churches and schools is directly dependent upon the re- 
 turns from the farm. 
 
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 MISSOURI 
 
 ENDENT UPON HER FARMS. 
 
 HE future of Missouri is intimately bound up in and de- 
 pendent upon agriculture. Jn order that this agriculture 
 may be of the best type and most successful it must be 
 based upon a right understanding of the laws governing 
 the growth and production of plants and animals and the 
 Conservation of the resources of tbe soil. 
 
 BREEDING NEW VA I 
 CORN. 
 
 Breeding a strain of corn at tlio 
 college whirl] lias already shown an 
 average Increase of nine bushels tier 
 
 PRIZE-WINNIN3 CORN 
 
 EXPERIMENTS SHOW HOW TO MORE THAN 
 DOUBLE THE CORN YIELD" SOUTH- 
 WEST MISSOURI. 
 In Barton county by proper fertilization the 
 yield of corn was increased from eighteen to for- 
 ty-five bushels per acre on thin land bv experi- 
 
 nts conducted by the Missouri Agricultural Col- 
 
 lege. This is fifty per cent more than the average 
 yield per acre of 1 lie county and showed a net 
 profit over and above the cost for fertilizer and 
 treatment of $4.67 per acre for the first year, 
 which when applied to the O.j.OOO acres planted to 
 
 n in Barton county would amount in a single 
 
 year to $441,7."iO.OO. or more than twice as much 
 as the State has given to the College of Agri- 
 culture since it was founded. 
 
EXPERIMENTS DOUBLE WHEAT YIELD IN 
 NORTHEAST MISSOURI. 
 
 Experiments were made by the college in Monroe 
 county, where by the proper use of cowpeas and lime 
 the vield of wheat was increased from twelye to 
 twenty-four bushels per acre, and showed a net profit 
 of $3.00 per acre. On the S.00O acres in tins county 
 erown in wheat this would amount to $24,000.00 
 ner year, and on the two million acres of the 
 State' it would amount to $0,000,000.00. and yet 
 the benefits of this application have been by no 
 means exhausted by this crop, but will be manifest 
 In many crops to come. 
 
 ORIGINATING NEW WHEAT FOR 
 MISSOURI. 
 
 Ml the varieties of wheat now grown 
 in Missouri originated in the north and 
 cast B.v these experiments it is proposed 
 to create varieties of wheat better adapt- 
 ed to Missouri's soil and climate than any 
 now in existence. 
 
 A CROP ROTATION WOULD ADD $56,000.00 
 YEARLY TO ONE COUNTY. 
 
 Experiments by the Agricultural College. 
 By proper rotation and application of the fer- 
 tilizer the yield of wheat was Increased In a north 
 Missouri cunty from twelve to twenty-siz bushels. 
 showing a net profit of $4.58 the first year. This 
 
 " applied tO all Of the wheal gl nil ill 
 
 this county would increase the net return about 
 
 9 00 each year. This applied to the whole 
 
 wheat area of the State would amount of $n>.- 
 714,407.00 annually, or more than enough to sup- 
 
 ,i thi State government, ail the stale Institu- 
 tions, and give the public schools several million 
 dollar". 
 
A COLLEGE COW MAKES A NEW WORLD'S BUTTER RECORD. 
 
 PEDRO'S Estella, the world record Jersey cow, in her three- 
 year-old form weighing a little over 800' pounds produced 
 in one year 712 pounds of butter, or practically her own 
 weight in butter. 
 
 This cow would have supplied the tables of seven 
 average families of five people each with butter during the entire 
 year and would have supplied a large amount of butter milk and 
 skim milk for cooking and drinking purposes. 
 
 S1F this cow's milk had been sold at the average net price com- 
 manded for milk in Columbia, seven cents a quart, her gross 
 return would have been $414.75. 
 
 " THE cost of feed she consumed during the year, and on which 
 ^ she produced $414.75 worth of milk and cream and butter was 
 $75.00, leaving a profit after the feed bill was paid of $339.75. 
 
 " THIS cow would have kept an average student in the University 
 ^ paying all of his expenses for books, clothing, tuition, etc., paid 
 for the feed she consumed, and allowed books and clothing for the 
 small brother at home to feed and milk her and deliver the milk to 
 customers nights and mornings, at the same time allowing him to 
 attend the graded school. 
 
 " TEN such animals, a number easily supported by the labor of one 
 ~ man, would yield a larger return after paying for all feed con- 
 sumed than the salary of the highest paid professor in the University. 
 
 Missouri Chief Josaphine. 
 holding the Missouri record 
 for milk production. Rec- 
 ord: 94 pounds of milk, or 
 11% gallons in one day; 710 
 pounds of milk, or 77 gallons 
 in one week; 2,535 pounds of 
 milk, or 315 gallons in one 
 month; 15.427 pounds of milk, 
 or 1.928 gallons in one year. 
 
 Pedro's Estella, the three- 
 year-old Jersey cow, holding 
 the world butter record for 
 a cow of her age. Bred and 
 owned by the Missouri Agri- 
 cultural College. Pounds of 
 butter in one day, 2% ; pounds 
 of butter in one week, 16%; 
 pounds of butter in one 
 month, 71; pounds of butter in 
 the year, 712. 
 
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 HEAVY DRAFT HORSES BELONGING TO THE COLLEGE. 
 
 THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE STUDENT CAN DO THINGS. 
 
 T! I E best evidence that the instruction in the 
 various technical subjects is practical is the 
 success the students have in putting this in- 
 formation into actual use when they leave 
 the College or when they come in competition 
 with men of more experience who have not had the ben- 
 efit of a college training in agriculture. 
 
 IX 1901 the Missouri State Fair offered a scries of 
 prizes for the greatest proficiency in judging all 
 classes of livestock, open to all citizens of the State 
 twenty-five car- of age and under. The undergraduate 
 -Indent- of the Agricultural College won twenty-six of 
 these twenty-eighl prizes. 
 
 FOR the past two years the State Dairy Association 
 has offered a series of special prizes on butter made 
 by t lie students of the Agricultural College on the theory 
 that it is unfair to the practical and experienced butter 
 maker to permit the product of a specially trained stu- 
 dent to compete with his. At each show the lowest scor- 
 ing butter made by an Agricultural College student was 
 
 several points higher than the highest scoring butter 
 made by the practical ami experienced butter makers. 
 
 A GREAT many of the leading county fairs of the 
 State have dispensed with the committee of three 
 experienced men for judges of the stock and are select- 
 ing a single judge from among the men trained at the 
 Agricultural College, Men so trained are able in addi- 
 tion to correctly ranking the animals, to give a logical 
 reason therefor and to point out the good qualities as well 
 as the deficiencies of each. The judging then becomes 
 an invaluable object lesson and the fair a local agricul- 
 tural school. 
 
 LIKEWISE are the college trained men sought 
 everywhere as judges at corn shows, fruit shows, 
 dairy exhibits, — in fact where ever a well developed and 
 a closely discriminating judgment is required is the col- 
 lege trained man sought. 
 
 THAT these men do things and are not afraid to 
 
 work after they leave college is further evidenced 
 
 by the call for college graduates to he managers of farms 
 
 and conduct the various kinds of agricultural operations, 
 
HORTICULTURAL BUILDING. 
 
 AGRICULTURAL BUILDING. LIVE STOCK JUDGING PAVILION. 
 
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 ISTKKKI) JERSEY COWS WHOSE TOTAL BUTTER PRODUCTION THIS YEAR WILL BE OVER 4, •;<><> POUNDS, OK MORE 
 THAN*7oO POUNDS EACH. BRED AND OWNED BY THE COLLEGE. 
 
 / STUDENTS WIN 
 
 MEMBER of the student judging team from 
 the Missouri Agricultural College won first 
 prize as the hest judge of all classes of live- 
 stock at the International Live Stock Show 
 at Chicago, Decemher, 1907, making the 
 
 highest record ever made by any student in a judging 
 
 contest. 
 
 SCHOLARSHIPS. 
 
 OW THE College 
 
 attending 
 
 student team won three Armour 
 
 Scholarships, having a cash value of $250 each. 
 
 This money is being used to pay a portion of the expenses 
 
 of eight poor and worthy young men while 
 
 the Agricultural College. 
 
 THE average standing of the College team in all 
 ^* classes of live stock was second, in competition 
 with eight of the leading agricultural colleges of the United 
 States. 
 
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 AGRICULTURAL STUDENTS JUDGING SHEEP. 
 
PREVENTING HOG CHOLERA BY INOCULATION. 
 
 TrE results of the experiments now in progress 
 at the College in co-operation with the Bu- 
 reau of Animal Industry of the United States 
 Department of Agriculture, show that with- 
 out question hog cholera may he prevented 
 liv means of inoculation. Already several hundred head 
 
 sustains a loss from this disease of approximately $2,000,- 
 000.00 annually. 
 
 IT is not too much to expect that this loss may be 
 
 largely and in the end wholly prevented. 
 THE College is making arrangements to distribute 
 this serum among the swine breeders of the State 
 free of charge as soon as the necessary funds for its pro- 
 duction can be provided. 
 Making Peaches Hardy by Pruning. 
 
 PEACH trees pruned by the method practiced at 
 the College have been made to produce two addi- 
 tional crops in eight years over and above orchards sim- 
 ilarly situated and treated in the same way with the ex- 
 ception of the method of pruning. Missouri has 125,- 
 000 acres planted in peaches. A good crop is expected 
 
 to net at least $50.00 per 
 
 acre. The increased wealth 
 
 hmm^hmb', of the State in eight years 
 
 by adopting the College 
 method o f pruning 
 would amount to $12,- 
 500,000.0,0. 
 
 DRAWING SERUM 
 FOR INOCULATION 
 AGAINST 
 HOG CHOLERA. 
 
 A LESSON IN PRUNING. 
 
 on different farms in the State as well as on the Col- 
 lege grounds have been inoculated, while others in the 
 same lots were dying with cholera, without the loss of a 
 single inoculated animal, while the great majority of 
 those not inoculated died. 
 
 MISSOURI swine herds have not been wholly free 
 from this disease in the last twenty years. The 
 State authorities estimate that the Missouri hog raiser 
 
 AN EXERCISE IN DAIRYING. 
 
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 THE BOY ON THE FARM. 
 
 O THE boy on the farm, and particularly to him who is to come into possession of farm land, no 
 si Hinder advice could be given than to keep this land and prepare to intelligently manage it. Agricultural 
 land will never be cheaper than it is now and it will lie more and more difficult to acquire. The im- 
 provement of the public roads, the introduction of the modern conveniences such as the rural telephone, 
 free rural mail deliver)", erection of sanitary homes, rob country life of its disadvantages, and leave with 
 
 it all its advantages. Inarming is the most pleasant and independent 
 occupation known to man. The brightest boy will find in the conduct 
 of The farm ample opportunity for the exercise of his best judgment 
 and highest intelligence. 
 
 THE role of the farmer in business, in society, in state-craft, and in 
 religion will grow in the future rather than diminish. If the boy's 
 tastes therefore run in the direction of farming encourage him to stay 
 on the farm and fit himself for the largest success in this line. 
 
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 ALFALFA ON STIFF CLAY SOIL 
 
 THE COLLEGE BREEDING HERDS 
 
 EXPERIMENTS TO INCREASE PUTNAM COUN 
 TY CORN CROP. 
 
 [experiments made by the Agricultural Col- 
 in Putnam county show thai the use of 
 
 cowpeae and n Increased the yield of corn fr 
 
 sixty three and n half t" seventy-four bushels 
 per acre, and gave an Increased nel profit of $1,14 
 per acre the lirsi year. This applied to the B7.87B 
 acre of corn normally grown in putnam County 
 would be equal to $05, 106.00. 
 
OPPORTUNITIES IN AGRICULTURE. 
 
 A MISSOURI farm boy who graduated from the 
 Missouri Agricultural College is now Chief 
 of one of the most important Bureaus in 
 the National Department of Agriculture, 
 with a salary of $6,000.00 a year. 
 A CENTRAL Missouri country bov worked his way 
 through the Agricultural College and is now Dep- 
 uty Minister of Agriculture of the Philippine Islands at 
 a salary of $4,000'.00 a year. 
 
 A NORTHWEST Missouri 
 farmer boy, after graduat- 
 ing at the Missouri Agricultural 
 College has been made Director 
 of the Porto Rico Experiment 
 Station at $3,fi00.00 a vear. 
 
 A CHARITON county boy 
 graduated three years ago 
 from the Missouri Agricultural 
 College and is now manager of 
 the Clarence Mackav firms, Long 
 Island, at a salary ' of $3,000.00. 
 where the expenditure for main- 
 tenance and improvements is 
 more than $100,000.00 a year. 
 dTR A FARMER'S son gradu- 
 al- ated from the Missouri 
 Agricultural College a year ago, 
 entered the government service immediately at a sal- 
 ary of $1,0(10.00, and is now Assistant Professor in an 
 agricultural college at $1, (500. 00 a year. 
 
 WITH equal success are other graduates conduct- 
 ing- their own farms and making their own impres- 
 
 Silver loving cup won by 
 
 the Missouri Agricultural Col- 
 lege for the Grand Champion 
 Galloway steer, Jamie, at the 
 American Royal Live Stock 
 Show, Kansas City, in 1907. 
 
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 .Hon upon the agriculture of the State and Nation. These 
 men are taking rank as they grow in experience as lead- 
 ing breeders and farmers of their community and coun- 
 try. 
 
 THE United States Department of Agriculture 
 
 alone pays more out each year for salaries than 
 eight of the largest universities in America combined. 
 Scarcely a week passes that the College is not asked to 
 recommend a man for a position either as teacher, inves- 
 tigator, editor, farm manager, or a partner in business 
 or to conduct a farm. 
 
 THE other Departments of 
 
 the University have long 
 been recognized as suitable places 
 in which to fit men for success 
 in their chosen professions. It is 
 only within very recent years that 
 we have come to realize that an 
 agricultural education opens new 
 and attractive avenues of oppor- 
 tunity and usefulness. 
 
 WHY should a young man 
 
 born and reared on the 
 farm willfully waste the knowl- 
 edge, experience and training he 
 has there acquired by entering a 
 profession in which it would be 
 of no service to him when the op- 
 portunity is offered of making 
 
 this experience his most valuable asset by entering a 
 profession that is less crowded and affords greater oppor- 
 tunities for su( ces=. 
 
 Sweepstakes prize for the 
 highest scoring butter exhib- 
 ited at the Missouri State 
 Dairy Association Butter 
 Slmw. It lias been contested 
 for six times, anil won four 
 times by men who received 
 their instruction in butter 
 making at the Missouri Ag- 
 ricultural College. 
 
CARRYING THE GOSPEL OF AGRICULTURE TO THE FARMER. 
 
 IN SEVEN days ten thousand farmers listened to 
 lectures from the College teachers and officers of 
 the State Board of Agriculture on improved seed 
 corn, crop rotation, improved breeds of live stock, 
 building up and saving the fertility of the land, 
 etc. Every principal railroad system of the State has 
 come to realize that improved agriculture means in- 
 creased freight and passenger business and has placed 
 a special Seed and Soil Train at the disposal of the au- 
 thorities of the College for carrying this message to 
 the farmers in its territory. 
 
 AT the regular farmers' institutes held under the 
 auspices of the State Board of Agriculture, the 
 teacher- of the Agricultural College lecture to from 
 
 15, to 80,000 farmers each year. 
 
 NOT less than 25,000 or 30,000 letters are written 
 each year by the teachers of the College answering 
 questions in relation to every detail of farming and stock 
 growing. Through the bulletins of the Experiment Sta- 
 tion, circulars of information, articles in the agricultural 
 papers and the country press a great majority of the 
 farmers of the State arc reached directly at some time 
 or another by some sort of information or with some 
 kind of inspiration. 
 
 FARM BOYS ENCAMPMENT. 
 
 PERHAPS a dozen farm boys' encampments will 
 be held in Missouri this summer in as many dif- 
 ferent counties to be enjoyed by not less than two 
 thousand bovs. 
 
 AT the encampment last year held on the farm 
 of Mr. S. M. Jordan, who is now in charge of this 
 work for the College, there was an enrollment of one 
 hundred and thirty-two. These boys are taught the 
 how and the why of improved agriculture. Innocent 
 games and sports, under proper management, are added 
 to whet the boys appetite for knowledge. Tt is an out- 
 ing- and an Agricultural School combined. 
 
 AN AGRICULTURAI 
 COLLEGE ON WHEELS 
 
AWAKENING AN INTEREST IN THE FUTURE FARMER. 
 
 Outlying Short Courses. 
 
 THE brightest boys will stay on the farm in- 
 stead of going to the cities if they understand 
 aright the opportunities agriculture offers. 
 The College last year in co-operation 
 with the State Board of Agriculture held 
 short courses in agriculture in connection with three 
 of the principal normal schools of the State with the 
 view primarily of arousing the interest of the student 
 
 INTERESTING THE BOYS IN IMPROVED AGRI CULTURE. 
 
 of the normal school, the future public school teacher, 
 in the subject of agriculture. These courses were one 
 week in length, and the farmers of the vicinity were 
 invited to enroll upon the same terms as the normal 
 school students. The enrollment in the course at Mary- 
 ville was one hundred and ten ; at Kirksville one hun- 
 dred and thirty and at Cape Girardeau two hundred and 
 seventy-five. 
 
 BOYS' CORN GROWING CONTEST. 
 
 FULLY 1,500 Missouri farm boys are already en- 
 gaged in growing prize corn to be exhibited at 
 local corn shows, the State Fair, and finally at the 
 State Corn Show at the Agricultural College next Jan- 
 
 uary. More than one-half the counties in the State are 
 represented. In one county alone L50 boys arc each 
 
 growing- an acre of corn in Ihis contest. 
 
 Boys' Corn and Stock Judging School. 
 
 gj AT the time of the State Corn Show the College 
 
 ^J-, will offer two Short Courses for boys. One will be 
 
 open to boys over ten and under sixteen years of aye. 
 and will continue one week. The other includes all boys 
 over sixteen and under twenty years of age, and will 
 continue ten days. The first course is offered for the 
 benefit of those boys who will come to the College with 
 their parents, and will include lessons in corn judging, 
 stock judging, dairying- and horticulture. The boys in 
 the second course are old enough to come to Columbia 
 alone and will have a more rigid course in the judging 
 and selection of animals, the judging and testing of seed 
 corn, the principles of dairying, of veterinary practice 
 and fruit growing. 
 
 Free Scholarships to Boys. 
 
 ^-r IN many cases the bankers or merchants of a corn- 
 el., munity have established a free scholarship which 
 will defray the entire 
 expenses of one or 
 more boys from their 
 community t o these 
 Short Courses. Us- 
 ually the boy whose 
 corn wins the highest 
 score in the local corn 
 show is to receive the 
 scholarship. 
 
 ■^r THE brightest 
 
 ^J-. boys must b e 
 
 kept on the farm. This 
 
 cannot b e done b y 
 
 keeping them in ignorance of the underlying principles 
 
 of the business of agriculture. The greatest possible 
 
 stimulus is given them when the desire to know is 
 
 awakened and this is the chief object of these courses. 
 
 CHAMPION GALLOWAY STEER, JAMIE, 
 FED AND EXHIBITED BY THE COLLEGE. 
 
THE MISSOURI AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 
 
 Its History. 
 
 THE College of Agriculture grew out of an act 
 of Congress approved July 2, 1862, setting 
 aside a certain amount of public land in each 
 state and territory for the establishment and 
 maintenance of an institution of learning "the 
 leading objects of which shall be, without 
 excluding other and classical studies and 
 including military tactics, to teach such 
 branches of learning as are related tc 
 agriculture and the mechanic arts in 
 such a manner as the legislatures of the 
 states may respectively provide in 
 order to promote the liberal and prac- 
 tical education of the industrial classes 
 in the several pursuits and professions 
 of life." The Missouri Agricultural 
 College was established under this act 
 in L870, and that portion of the insti- 
 tution relating to agriculture and me- 
 chanic arts was located at Columbia 
 in connection with the State Univer- 
 sity already established. The mining 
 department of the College was located 
 at Rolla. as the Missouri School of 
 Mines. Aside from a minor appropri- 
 ation made by the Missouri legislature 
 at the time the College was established 
 no State support was given it until 
 1887, and then only a meagre sum for 
 the erection of a barn and the purchase 
 of some improved live stock. No 
 further assistance was given by the 
 Sla'e until 1899. It is therefore within 
 the last ' irs that 'he College of Agriculture has 
 
 received practically all of its assistance from the State 
 and in this time has elected almost every building it 
 now owns. 
 
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 A DERBY WINNER BELONGING TO 
 THE COLLEGE, 
 
 Its Objects. 
 
 9 AS stated in the law its leading object is "to teach 
 such branches of learning as are related to agricul- 
 ture and mechanic arts." Tt has also an equally import- 
 ant object, namely; the making of experiments concern- 
 ing the best methods of soil management and cultivation, 
 crop rotation, pruning and management 
 of fruits, varieties of farm, orchard and 
 garden crops, the combating of insect 
 pests, butter and cheese-making, the 
 adaptability of the soils of the different 
 parts of the State to new and untried 
 crops, origination of new varieties of 
 crops, and the improvement of old and 
 standard varieties, making a soil sur- 
 vey of the State and a chemical analy- 
 sis of the different soil types; controll- 
 ing contagious diseases of plants and 
 animals. In short, the working out for 
 the farmer of a more rational system 
 of agriculture bv making experiments 
 which he cannot make. 
 
 Its Equipment. 
 
 9 THE Old Agricultural building, a 
 three-story brick structure, lo- 
 cated on the campus, in which are 
 located the administrative offices of the 
 College, the Experiment Station and 
 State Hoard of Agriculture, the De- 
 partment o f Animal Husbandry, 
 the United States Weather Service. The 
 building, located on the horticultural 
 grounds, and containing the departments of Horticulture, 
 Botany and Entomology. The Dairy building, located 
 
 \.jn momy and 
 Horticultural 
 
on the farm, in which are housed the department of 
 Dairying and Agricultural Chemistry. The Live Stock 
 building, also on the farm, contains the laboratories and 
 lecture rooms of the Veterinary department, and the 
 live stock judging pavilion. The Farm 
 Machinery Laboratory contains repre- 
 sentative specimens of all the leading 
 modern farm machinery. The beef 
 barn, the dairy barn, the hog barn, 
 sheep barn, two silos, two large cattle 
 sheds for experimental feeding are 
 located on the College Farm. Two 
 greenhouses for the use of the Horti- 
 cultural department, in which the 
 methods of plant propagation, graft- 
 ing, etc., are practiced, one for the 
 department of Botany for the study of 
 diseases of plants, and one for the de- 
 partment of Agronomy for studying 
 the fertilizer requirements of the soils 
 in the different parts of the State. 
 
 THE New Agricultural Building, 
 the second largest and most im- 
 portant building belonging to the Uni- 
 versity is now in process of erection 
 and under contract to be completed by 
 March 1, 1909. 
 
 THE grounds consist of a farm 
 of 610 acres, and the horticul- 
 tural grounds of thirty acres. The farm 
 contains about 200 acres of tillable land representing 
 everv grade of soil from very thin ridge land to the 
 richest creek bottom. The remainder of the farm is a 
 most excellent bluegrass pasture. On this farm are cul- 
 tivated about sixty acres of corn for experiments in 
 
 A COLLEGE SHOR1HORN COW 
 
 breeding new varieties, testing old ones, and contrasting 
 different methods of cultivation, crop rotation, dif- 
 ferent sorts of fertilizer, and methods of preparation of 
 land. etc. Some twenty acres are devoted to wheat for 
 similar experiments, a few acres to oats, 
 and a limited area to alfalfa, cowpeas 
 and other important forage crops. 
 
 THE farm live stock consists of 
 ^* a purebred herd of Shorthorn cat- 
 tle, a Hereford herd, and a limited num- 
 ber of purebred Angus. Six complete 
 show herds of fat steers, representing 
 the Angus, Galloway, Hereford, Short- 
 horn breeds and their grades, and from 
 K>() to 150 experimental steers, used 
 for experiments in wintering, grazing 
 and fattening cattle. 
 
 9 A POUT 1C0 head of registered 
 hogs are kept, renresenting the 
 Berkshire, Duroc and Poland strains, 
 and in addition a large number of grade 
 hogs for feeding experiments and a 
 goodly number used in our investiga- 
 tion of the methods of controlling hog 
 cholera. 
 
 a A FLOCK of some sixty sheep 
 is kept for instruction in judg- 
 ing. These represent the Shropshire, 
 Merino, Southdown, Cheviot and 
 Hampshire breeds. 
 THE horse stock consists of five registered Percherons, 
 ^^ five high grades and four mules. 
 
 THE dairy herds consists of about fifty registered 
 ^* Jerseys, all of which have been bred on the farm, 
 fifteen Holsteins, which, with the exception of two, have 
 
also been bred by the College, six Ayrshires, and seven 
 irthorns of the dairy type. 
 XO College of Agriculture in America or in the 
 world for that matter has a better live stock equip- 
 ment than has the Missouri College. 
 
 THE Horticultural grounds are divided between 
 apple, peach, pear and plum orchards; and grape 
 arbors ; small fruit planting, and nursery and landscape 
 and ornamental plantings, all for purposes of instruction 
 and research in this specialty of agriculture which is of 
 
 luch importance to the State. 
 Its Standing. 
 
 ^ > THE work of the College of Agriculture receives 
 
 ^" high recognition from the other Colleges and De- 
 
 partmei - University. Tt may be truthfully said 
 
 that the character of its work both in instruction and 
 research is in every particular the equal of that of any 
 other college of agriculture in America. 
 
 Its Students. 
 
 SCARCELY another Department of the University 
 has grown so rapidly in the enrollment of students 
 and in popular estimation within recent years as has the 
 College of Agriculture. The enrollment for last year was 
 ,'541, including fifty-five young women studying home 
 economics. A few years ago the enrollment was less 
 than two dozen. Nowhere in the University can be 
 found a more enthusiastic, loyal, enterprising, indus- 
 trious and law abiding group of students than those en- 
 rolled in the College of Agriculture. 
 
 THE COLLEGE STOCK AT THE FAIR. 
 
MAKING SILAGE AT THE COLLEGE. 
 
 Earning a Portion of One's Expenses. 
 
 PERHAPS one-fourth of the students 
 studying- agriculture in the University 
 earn practically their entire expenses by working 
 on the farm, in the dairy, in the greenhouse and in 
 the laboratories of the College and University. 
 Perhaps another fourth earn as much as half of 
 their expenses. It is safe to assume that where 
 so large a number of men are successful in making 
 their expenses others may be equally successful. 
 There is no reason why an intelligent boy with 
 pluck and determination may not have a Univer- 
 sity education if he will. Money will not secure 
 it for him, and the lack of money need not keep 
 it from him. 
 
 Tuition Is Free. 
 
 University. 
 
 Expenses. 
 
 QT-TT-nFNTS taking a laboratory course arc required to make 
 
 Soryli of $5.00 to cover the cost of matenal 
 
 >d and breakage. The remainder is refunded 
 
 Se student at the end of the course. 
 
 "OARD and room in the dormitories will 
 an average 
 per week. 
 
 •ost on 
 about >n go 
 
 This in ndes fight, heat, 
 service, c _ In private 
 families i im and board 
 will vary; n pr j ce be- 
 tween $3.50 nd $500 per 
 week. On t, w hole 
 is safe to e:; mate 
 that $150:01 to 
 $200:00 will be tn e 
 necessary expen es 
 of a student for a 
 college year at th. 
 University. 
 
 it 
 
 L COLLEGE PUKE BRED PERCHERON MARE 
 PRIZE WINNER. ILLINOIS STATE FAIR. 
 
REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION. 
 
 TO ENTER the four years' collegiate course 
 n agriculture requires essentially four year 
 Study in an approve! high school YouS 
 men however, who arc twenty-one years oi 
 
 farm will -bTad^edaT' hav ? had .-perien^n ° 
 fillinrr , • adni,tted as special students without ful 
 
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 li urv education wM ? t 's\?fl T e ? penence a ' ir| P^ 
 
 'I'.'" these mature students IS n ° 1 "' "ixriencc 
 
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 ^n^ng: Plan, propagat^ etc, and 
 i n7n^V hey ,T made «P theirTntrance re- 
 
 sss? to «.s;tss. pie * d the reguiar -^ with great 
 
 Some of the 
 When H 
 
 Stock Juae 
 
 Grain Jud 
 
 Crop Rot 
 
 Butter Ji 
 
 ( >rchary-. 
 
 Soil F> 
 
 l ; aru 
 
 Sto 
 
 Bi 
 
 \r 
 
 chinery. 
 
 ceding-, 
 of Live Stock. 
 /Production, 
 se Making. 
 ect Pests. 
 Adding and Grafting. 
 Vegetable Gardening. 
 Forestry. 
 Climatology. 
 Agricultural Economics. 
 Animal Surgery. 
 Plant Physiology. 
 Animal Physiology. 
 Agricultural Chemistry. 
 I )airy Bacteriology. 
 Landscape ( iardening. 
 Floriculture, 
 (brasses. 
 Forage Crops. 
 Making Silage. 
 Silo Construction. 
 The Management of a Stoc 
 Contagious Diseases of An 
 
 cal Subjects the Farm Boy Studies 
 s to the Agricultural College. 
 
 Farm Engineering. 
 Plant Breeding. 
 Field Crop Management. 
 Beef Production. 
 Sheep Production. 
 Pork Production. 
 Horse Production. 
 
 Silver loving cup offered by 
 the American Holstein-Fries- 
 ian Association for the stu- 
 dent team showing the great- 
 est proficiency in Judging 
 dairy cattle ;it the National 
 Dairy Show, Chicago, and won 
 by the Missouri Agricultural 
 College team. 
 
 Manures and Fertilizers. 
 
 Soil Physics, 
 k Farm 
 imals. 
 
THE NEW AGRICULTU TlkT „ 
 
 . BUILDING. 
 
 ON THE beautiful site here i 
 erected the handsomest Tated is now being 
 versity croup, the new hoing in the Uni- 
 tural College. It is entireP* .the Agncul- 
 most important industry in ' "ting that this 
 be housed in the best building the UniveState shoul 
 of crystalline limestone, quarried on the T " aS- 
 laid in Portland cement, of fire proof con\ e S e 
 thoroughly first class in every respect. 
 0W THE building is 26G 
 
 It is 
 
 farm ; 
 
 ;tion and 
 
 GENERAL INFORMATION. 
 
 the first week in January, 
 
 giate c 
 ber 14, 1908. 
 
 THREE Short Winter Courses of eight weeks du 
 tion which will open 
 
 1909, 
 
 as follows: 
 1. 
 
 2. 
 3. 
 
 •-Si feet long with two 
 stories and a high base- 
 ment and includes an au- 
 ditorium with a seating 
 capacity of 500 for farm- 
 ers' conventions and for 
 the accommodation o f 
 large classes of students. 
 The auditorium has a 
 swinging stage, which 
 may b e folded back 
 against the wall so as to 
 allow cattle, horses and other live 
 stock to be brought in for demon- 
 stration. 
 
 THIS building will contain the 
 administrative offices of the Col- 
 lege and Experiment Station, the De- 
 partments of Agronomy and Animal 
 Husbandry and the laboratories of the 
 Soil Survey, the Agricultural library 
 and reading room and temporarily perhaps the depart- 
 ment of Home Economics. It is likewise to be the home 
 of the State Board of Agriculture, with the offices of 
 the Secretary of State Highway Commission, State 
 Veterinarian, Pure Food and Dairy Commission, 
 etc. 
 
 C, FOR further information in regard to any of these courses or advice conceding any of these matters. 
 
 address Dean H. J Waters, Columbia, Missouri. 
 
 to 
 
 Soils and Crops. 
 Animal Husbandry. 
 Dairy Husbandry. 
 
 THESE courses are open 
 young men from the farm 
 without entrance examinations and 
 are designed to give the 
 largest possible amount 
 of practical information in 
 the shortest time. 
 
 Corn and Stock Judging 
 School for Boys. 
 
 ONE course of one 
 week's duration is 
 open to the farm boy be- 
 tween the age of ten and 
 sixteen years, and will oc- 
 cur the second week in 
 January, 1909. Each child 
 must be accompanied by 
 a friend or parent. 
 ^ A COURSE of ten 
 HI days' duration be- 
 ginning tht sec ond week in January, 1909, which is open 
 to the farm oy between the ages of sixteen and twenty 
 years. 
 
 FOR catal- or other bulletins of the University ad- 
 dress Mei-ill Otis, Publisher, Columbia, Missouri. 
 
 THE SITE OF THE NEW AG- CULTURAL BUILDING. 
 

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