University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-02-16

\ magnificent American institution
is the State Agricultural College OF
Missouri, in the town OF Columbia
1t would be well if every farmer,
every farmers boy. very lnteillseht
citizen in the United States, could
visit that splendid practical labora-
tory. study it and understand it.
Some OF the country's big men, }.
]. Hill and others, are telling us that
we shall soon exhaust our resources;
that if the land isn't better developed,
and the earth made more fruitful, the
human race will starve.
There at Columbia they are not
talking, but they are solving the very
problem of the so-called big men.
Feeding of cattle increase Of the
soils production, intelligent, profitable
breeding of the food animals on which
the human race so largely depends
such is the work and study OF the
intelligent men, the large body o!
: tdtItSl ttdN!ltIS - anu sihtNi'' ~ wa
III bia.
\ really Intelligent and adeuua'"
description Of this great college would
probably be read By few. But almost
any man viii tax" time to read aoout
The COW. the calf and the wonderful
pig.
The Five "WorId 8eateTs.'
There are III this world, all told,
at present, seventeen COWS that are
capable of giving seven hundred
pounds OF butter or more per year.
Five out OF seventeen in the who'll
world are in the relatively small herd
at that Agricultural College. And the
entire herd. including those five won-
d"riul world beaters," have been
raised from the four original COWS
bou,.h; for the institution.
There has been no sIuande:iugs of
n.on ". no rarirg Of enormous prices
for particular animals. intelligence.
concentrated Thought scientific under
standing applied to the breeding of
animals have produced this wonderful
herd aHd these wonderful specimens
from ioH' ordinary good CONS.
Do yoU suppose that these wonder
lui mjlt.. cream and butter giving
COWS 40 I;A"t'r>d. icn' '@otad ny!
an IN" ,on'f:ti|. al! winter long, eX-
'".t Iii i2' most "H''E storms. ia.
lH""d me haE IN Il" "9'A i'@.G', Il.
iH' All. Not *.sl on Tuberculosis
'4''E", .'A "3:-' h' sure. t'G t.i'
wei" oi h!it'"' i iA' greatest IL IL"
W"E!dS record.
SUISsS'i"h jA"." lof til' .GneE2ni
.Aa' E""9 the COWS iHGooFS. Ga 50 Eiany
.3Fl"S, E"'p thtM away fE1ih II" fresh
an the oxygen necessary to health
''ah Gc'H "Cfk'
Ard the Champion Calf.
There is y sad suggestion. too. a
sad reminder OF the millions OF moth
ers. nc; COWS. but human beings. that
arr lO0ped W winter and summer in
tenementS away from the fresh air
the green grass and the sunshine
No wonder their children suffer and
lie carly.
What fine thing it would he il
/ civilization would treat the two-ieSged
| mothers as generously and intelligent
ly as the state OF Missouri treats the
prize COWS at Columbia.
And they have ont there the cham
plon cali o! the world. This is the
can that took the prize and beat all
other conceivable calves at the recent
great Live Stock Show at the stock
, yards here. This baby weighs
eleven hundred pounds. He IS about
. year old. He looks like a big.
square. hairy log OF wood on four
very short legs. There is no lost
motion, mental or physical, in that
wonderful calf. His business is to
: manufacture beef and fat in alternate