Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-04-14
ROAD IMPROVEMENT.

nO0D
Iis with much satisfaction that we learn from the local press of the
State how wide spread is the interest that is being taken in the subject of
road improvement in Missouri. The efforts of the Board of Agriculture are
in this direction surely bringing good results, The good work of agitation Of
the importance of this matter by lectures at farmers institutes, conven-
Itons, field trials of road machinery, in monthly bulletins. and annual
reports, in the press. and by all possible means, will be continued until Mis-
souri, shall have a system of public roads as nearly perfect as science and
money can make. As a valuable aid to the cause We commend to all inter
ested in the subject the periodical called Good Roads" It's hand
somely printed and illustrated monthly magazine of so pages, published by
the League of American Wheelmen, and edited by l. b. Potter, Potter
Building, New York.
MISSOURI AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS FOR THE WORLDS
FAIR.
The following letter from the Hon. j. <. Gwynn, Executive Commits
sioner of the Missouri Worlds Fair Board is self Explanatory. The Missouri
State Board of Agriculture desires to cooperate rs fully as possible with
the Worlds Fair Board in securing an adequate exhibit of States agr-
cultural resources.
The correspondents of the Board of Agriculture, located as they are in
all the counties, and being among the most intelligent of the farmers of the
State can greatly aid in this work. 1t is requested, therefore, that those
who are willing to undertake the growing of different farm products for
which their land and location are well adapted for exhibition at the coming
Worlds Fair, or know of some m who will do SO, will inform this office.
As Mr.. Gwynn says, the work must be largely a :. labor of love, " but
the Board of Agriculture and the Missouri Worlds Fair Board will see to
it that all those who assisted in this way will get full credit for their efforts
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, January 10, 1899.
Levi Chmbbuck, Esq, Secretary State Board Of agriculture, Columbia,
No.:
DEAR SIR. 4 beg to acknowledge that my recent interview with the
State Board of Agriculture, held at Columbia, Mo-, vas most satisfactory
land gratifying. The heartness with which they, both al a Board and as
individuals, agreed to cooperate with the Worlds Fair Board in making
1.-THE State display was in the highest degree reassuring and guarantees the
best possible results. You understand of course that the object of the
appropriation was to erect a State building and to defray the expense of
collecting, transporting, arranging and exhibiting the various products of
the State at the Fair and not for the purchase of specimens for exhibition
The raising and preparation of these specimens must be a labor of love"
in a large measure, and L doubt not that the farmers SIM general throughout the
State will cheerfuIy undertake to grow for this purpose the very best speci
mems Of every kind of agricultural product that their soil is capable of produc
ling. BUTT will not do to depend upon gIttenng generalties, land l beg to sug-
gst to you that lit might expedite matters in securing reliable and efficient
service in procuring typical specimens of all kinds Of agricultural products
if you would issue a circular to the representative farmers of the State
inviting them to undertake the growth of some speciality for the Fair. 1
doubt not that numbers of your correspondents will cheerfuly volunteer to
raise, each his specially for the purpose named, that is to say, man will
undertake hemp another cotton, another fax, wheat. oats, barley, rye, sU.
lghum, broom corn, ETC., etc.
The almost infinite varieties of each of the cereal grains, forage plants,
ioraSsas ofo WouId al vnu rpad1v daeovpr aHor1 a cpooiotuf ro b of n
large number of individuals. Directions about harvesting, curing, preserv-
ing and shipping could be sent out o as to have concert Of action among the
producers, and the products collected at a given point when needed.
If these views meet with your Endorsement, and you are willing to per-
form this valuable service in the interest of the Missouri exhibit at the
that correspondence may be taken up with such as may volunteer their ser.
vices, you will, sir, greatly promote the agricultural exhibit of Missouri and
JK. GWYNN,
Executive Commissioner Missouri Worlds Fair Board.
Mermod Jaccard building, ST. Louis, Mo.
In accordance with the foregoing, a circular was sent to our correspon-
! dents asking that those who could would undertake to produce specimens
for the Missouri exhibit. A large number responded promptly and favor
ably and Mr.. Gwynn Is 10Y in correspondence with them. Under recent
l date, MI. Gwynn writes Is as follows: "No one has 81 far volunteered to
Q raise either cotton, hemp, flax or castor beans. Will you kindly make mention
of this fact in your next bulletin and solicit contributions of these? ?" Will
those who are favorably situated to grow these crops, offer to produce good
specimens for exhibition !? If there are Others who would like to aid in this
way, MI. Gwynn will be glad to hear from them.
TEXAS FEVER QUARANTINE REGULATIONS ADOPTED BY
THE STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE.
] At a meeting of the State Board of Agriculture, held March 2, 1892,
acting with His Excelency, \. R. Francis, and the State Veterinarian, a
Quarantine line al adopted which comedies with that established by the
, Federal Bureau of Animal Industry. This line begins Oh the Rio
Grande river, at the southwest corner of Valverde county, Texas, and
ii runs in a northery direction, bearing eaEerly, to the northwest corner
of Indian Territory, then east to the west line of Missouri, and south
to the southern line, which it follows to the Mississippi river, along the
southern line of Tennessee, and on east and north to the Atlantic ocean.
After describing the line in detail, the regulations re Is follows:
q Frst-From March Is to the first of December, each ar CARRYING
$ cattle in course of transportation from said area into OIL through the State
of Missouri shall bear a placard setting forth plainly and, in bold letters
e that said car contains Southern cattle, ana when said cattle shall b.
unloaded north or west of the above-described line to be fed II watered
t the places occupied by the animals shall be considered infectious grounds
subject to quarantine, and shall be Immediately set apart by the owners o
70 lessees of the property for the accommodation of infectious Southern cattle
Il ~ o@br oatIo hall boo d,;ftoJ thnto A. uo,kz r lL--I. .
cattle shall be placed in Southern cattle pens, IS prescribed in section
4 of these regulations.
Secomd-Whenever any cattle that have come from said area shall b
II lreshipped from any of the points at which they have been unloaded t.
e other points of destination, the Cal carrying said animals shall also bear