The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-10-24
State University News.

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the University of Missouri is unable to
supply the demand for trained orchard.
lists. Within the two weeks since
October first the department has re,
celved requests for three men to super.
intend commercial orchards and for
two men trained for experiment work.
This is but a fair sample of the oppor-
t%unities open to graduates of our State
University agricultural college. " nv
boys will enter other crowded profes.
sions with these opportunities before
them is unexplainable.
W. M. LaDgdon, of Rhodesia, South
Africa, visited the State University last
week for the pdrpose OF studying the
methods OF that institution with a view
to their Introduction into some institu.
ton IN South Africa.
Prof. c. F. Marbut, of the State
University is at work on a relief man
OF Missouri far larger than any map of
Missouri ever before made. The map
when completed will require a frame a
little larger than twelve by fifteen feet.
IL will be made of paper mache aud
will weigh several hundred pounds. A
plaster cast of the map is in contem.
platlon and If made 1t will weigh three
tons. The scale of measurements on
the map will be two miles to the inch.
but heights will be shown on a some
what larger scale, one inch to the one
thousand feet. "On this scale. - saws
Prof Marbut, tom Suck, in Iron
county, the highest hill in Missouri.
will be about two inches high on the
map" So far as possible every phys-
zeal feature of the state will be shown
so that visitors to the Worlds Fair.
where the map is to be exhibited, NAV
get fairly accurate knowledge of the
surface Of Missouri.
According to the last census the cor.
sumption Of fruit In the Uniten States
is 81 OS per capita annually. It will
be seen that this is less than one.third
OF one cents worth per capita per day.
While the enormous planting of fruit
in Missouri and odjoining states
appears to local growers to indicate
overproduction, a consideration of con.
dltions throughout the whole country
shows plainly that our fruit supply is
not keeping pace with the national
demand. A study of prices of fruit
quoted by commission houses through
reports duri0g the past forty
reveals the fact that while the
great majority of the staple agricultural
products have been cheapened in price,
The average price of marketable apples
has increased each decade and first
class apples put upon the market now
bring a higher price than in any pre-.
7lous decade. There is, however. mo
of an overproduction of apples
The feature of the Missouri exhibit
At the Worlds Fair will be a book on
Estate of Missouri" A prominent
of this book will he devoted to
The live stock Of Missouri. This chap
.er will be written by Prof. F. B
Numtord Of the State University. 1t
Will be the most concise and accurate
comprehensive statement of the
greatest industry in this state, II will
ihow that Missouri Is naturally, by
'easou of soil and climate, the best live
state in the union. 1t must
how that the people of the state have
'een wonderfully successful in develop
ng the industry. 1t will be the best
opportunity the live stock men of Mis-
Iouri have ever had to present a faith
'ul description of Mlssourl's greatest
industry,