The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-12-17

Last year 10 per cent Of the students
in the College OF Arts and Science In
she University took work in the Bible
College,
A Horticultural text book for use
in the public schools In Missouri Is
soon to be issued by the State Board
OF Horticulture OF Missouri. The
book will contain information about
she planting OF fruit and other trees,
together with the care and cultiva
tion OF flowers. 1t will also contain
Statistics In regard to the fruit pro.
ducts OF Missouri. W. L Howard,
professor of Horticulture at the Uni.
versity of Missouri, is secretary of
the State Board OF Agriculture.
The American Breeders Associa-
ton will hold its annual meeting at
the University of Missouri the second
week in January, during Farmers
Week, a week set apart by the Agri.
cultural Department OF the univer-
sisy for the holding OF conventions
by the farmers OF Missouri. The
American Breeders Association Is
made up Of the leading live stock
breeders OF the United States and
Canada. Among the other societies
shat will hold conventions in Column.
bia during the week are the State
Board OF Horticulture, State Corn
Growers Association, State Dairy
Association, State Association Of
Highway Engineers, State Sheep
Breeders Association, State Swine
Breeders Association, and the State
Beekeepers' Association. Corn and
fruit exhibits will also be held during
the week and the prizes In the boys
corn growing contest for 1908 will
be awarded
Forty-five per cent OF the fertilizers
sold to the farmers OF Missouri by
the big packing companies and by
other companies engaged In the
manufacture OF commercialier fertilizers,
do not contain the elements guaran.
teed by the manufacturers on the
outside OF the bag. This Is the re-
suit OF an investigation that the Ex-
pertinent Station OF Missouri has
been making with samples Of fertillz.
ers collected from various parts OF
the state. The experiments we're
made by DR.. P. F. Trowbridge, chem.
LIST OF the experiment station, and q
professor in the Agricultural Depart.
ment Of the University Of Missouri.
DR.. Trowbridge says that the iertili
Ter companies greatly increase their
profits by cutting down the supply
Of the costly ingredients OF the ierti.
lizers. Most of the companies found
to be violating the law are in Chi.
cego, st. Louis and Kansas City,
and they supply most Of the iertiliz-
ers used by the farmers OF the Mis-.
sissippi Valley.
President A. Ross Hill oil the Uni
versity OF Missouri criticised the
; knockers" on the football team IL
speech at University assembly last
week. President Hill said the stu
dents should "get behind" the ath
letic management and make the res,
OF the athletic season q success, al
the football season had been. Gu,
Of eight games this year, Missouri
/, won six.
VS.. Cowherd, OF Kansas City, &
, graduate OF the University OF Mis-
souri, was elected president Of til,
University Of Missouri Alumni Asso
citation Of Kansas City. The associs
. ton now numbers about sixty mem
bers In Kansas City.
Frank L. Jackson, q student OF tn
I University Of Missouri, ran eigh
miles In iorty-six minutes In q eros
country run ct Kansas City OF
/, Thanksgiving day, winning owe
three other runners. Jackson y
u senior IN the Arts and Science d
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