The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-11-22

ANNUA MEETING. At the annual meeting of the
Board Of Agriculture, held on the sixth inst, at Columbia, the
follow ng officers we're elected for the ensuing year f. W.
Smith, Columbia, President Abel Leonard, Mt. Leonard, Vice
President Levi Chubbuck, Columbia, Secretary, and ). >. Clark
son. Columbia. Treasurer.
THE ANNUAL REPORT. In accordance with the law,
thirty copies OF the 22nd Annual Report of the Board of Agricul-
ture have been sent to each county clerk in the state and twenty
copies to each member of the General Assembly, for distribution TO
the farmers i'll their respective counties. A limited number OF
copies have just been received from the state printers, and until the
supply is exhausted copies will be sent to those requesting them.
These reports are intended to be volumes of information for
the farmers of the State, and as much is compressed into the 800
pages as is possible to get INTO them. Contributions from those
who have had experience in any line Of farming or farm life which
will be helpful to others to know of will be gladly received and
published. Those who have records of rainfall, and other meteor
illogical data, will confer a favor by sending copies to this office.
We would also like to get plans of barns and other farm buildings
that may be considered worthy of imitation for use in the next
annual report of the Board.
INSTITUTES. In addition to the series of
Farmers Institutes held in Northwest Missouri, during October, a
series will be held in the northeast section during the week begin
ming December IS. Another series will be held in the southern
part of the State, beginning December 20. These meetings are
held by the Board of Agriculture for the purpose of getting the
farmers of the different counties together to discuss methods OF
crop culture, stock breeding, dairying, fruit growing, poultry rails
ing and other topics of interest to them as farmers. The attend
ance of men who have made special study in the different lines of
agriculture is secured to discuss means and methods by which sue
cess may be obtained. This line of work would be productive of
much good to the farmers of the State if the Board was in posses
sion Of sufficient funds with which to carry it forward properly.
SCHOLARSHIPS in the Missouri Botanical gardens. By
the will of the late Henry Shaw, the founder of the Missouri
Botanical Garden at st. Louis, provision was made for a number
of scholarships in the Garden to be awarded to deserving young
men. The value of these scholarships to young men of limited
means who desire to become thorough, practical horticulturists
is such that we wish to call attention to them.
They are for six years. During the first year the pupils are
required to work in the Garden nine or ten hours daily under the
direction of experts. In the second year they will work five hours
daily in the Garden, and in addition thereto will be given instruc-
ton in vegetable and flower gardening, small-fruit culture and
orchard culture. In the third year in addition to the five hours
of daily labor they will be instructed in forestry, botany, land
scape gardening, surveying and draining. In the fourth year,
besides the customary work, they will continue the study of
botany, garden vegetables and fruits. and will be given a course in
simple bookkeeping, legal forms of leases, deeds, etc. In the
fifth year, besides the customary work, there will be study of
vegetables, physiology, economic botany and fungi, and each
pupil will be expected to keep a set of accounts. In the sixth
year in addition to the manual work, the pupils will continue the
study of the botany of garden and greenhouse plants. of ferns, and
of trees in their winter condition, besides the theoretical part of
special gardening.
That the lack Of means need not deter any young man from
obtaining such training as is contemplated, each regularly
appointed pupil holding a scholarship will be entitled to the
following wages: For the first year, 5000 for the second year,
$3.50; and, for each year after the second year, $500; together
with plain but comfortable lodgings near the Garden. The
young men must be between fourteen and twenty years Of age,
and possess Il good elementary English education. Those desiring
to apply for a scholarship should write to William Trelease,
Botanical Garden, st. Louis, Missouri.
In concluding this, the last report of the season, we wish to
express the thanks of the Board to the correspondents and to the
Press of the State for the invaluable assistance rendered in gather
ing and disseminating information. We look forward to the time
when the farmers of the State will more fully appreciate the value
of the service rendered and will insist that fuller compensation be
made than is DOW possible. Respectfully submitted,
LEVI CHUBBUCK,