University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-10-21
HAS AIDED FARMERS
The College of Agriculture
Has Done Many Things
for the State.

for the state and for the farmers of
Missouri.
Teaching Agriculture in State.
Five men from the College Of Agri-
culture in eleven days time gave in
struction in agriculture to $4,000 per-
sons. This was accomplished by means
OF special trains furnished by the
Frisco, Burlington, and Missouri, Kan
sas & Texas Railroads. Instructors
from the College taught Agriculture to
1900 persons in night schools at st.
Louis and at Kansas City.
Twenty-one teachers from the Col.
lege of Agriculture made public ad-
dresses on agricultural subjects dur
ing the past year in each of the ia
counties of Missouri The total num-
Der of addresses made at these meet
ings was 46O. More than 100000 far
mers attended these meetings.
The College uses this means to ex-
plain the results Of the agricultural
experiments made b. the Experiment
Station and to determine modern
methods of agriculture
Judging Stock at Fairs.
The Agricultural College supplied IS
county lairs with expert judges of live
stock in 1909. These expert judges
were trained for this work by the Ami
NAL Husbandry Department. 1t re-
quired IS days and the services of IL
men to supply this demand for judges.
The total number of animals ex-
amined and placed for the award of
prizes was 6,027.
There were 100000 persons attend,
ing these fairs.
By this means the College is using
the most efficient and practical method
of educating stock men and farmers
how to select and develop the most
profitable types of animals. :,
Saving Missouri Hogs.
The College of Agriculture inoca.
lated 10000 hogs during the past year.
|Eighty-five percent of these hogs were
saved. At conservative estimate, the
work of the College has added $780,.
900 in each to the resources of Mis-
souri, in this item along in one year.
The College is now inoculating $500
hogs a month. 1t is not yet able
to supply the demand for hog cholera
serum. A new laboratory used exclu.
|sively for making this serum is now
being built to meet this rapidly in
creasing demand.
The estimated annual loss result.
ing from hog cholera in Missouri is
81 100000. 1t is confidently expected
that the work of the College will in
time stamp out this dread scrourge
and by so doing add this large sum
annually to the wealth of the state.
Protecting Farmers.
The agricultural experiment station
maintains thorough inspection ser.
vice of commercial fertilizers in order
to protect the farmers of Missouri in
the use of these materials. All ferti
lizers must be registered with the ex.
pertinent station, giving complete
and careful guarantee of the amount
of plant food present in the fertilizer
The experiment station through its
inspectors collects these brands OF
fertilizer from dealers, from the farm
ers' wagons or in the manufacturers
ware houses. These samples are an
alyzed and the results published.
A fertilizer bulletin is published an
nually giving the results of the find
ings. This service has improved The
quality of commercial fertilizers IL
Missouri and assures the farmer tina
he is getting exactly what he buys
The last fertilizer bulletin to be pub
lished was No. 85.