Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1912-01-18

in the United States. AS live stock
state Missouri stands indispu,ably first.
We are producing more pure bred live
stock and our breeders have captured
more blue ribbons at the different
Worlds Fairs and at the big National |
Live Stock shows than any other state in |
the Union. In the production OF Poultry |
We also stand first--our Poultry product |
in 1910 having sold for more than 49, |
0W,OOO. III 1910 the surplus crop and
live stock products OF the Missouri faru-
er amounted to approximately $4,000.
OOO--and what makes this showing all
the more remarkable is the fact that out
of our 45,OOO.0O0 acres only about one
third of this area is in active cultivation
al the present time--the Ozark region
and hundreds of acres in the fertile
Southeast constituting all empire which
has hardly been touched. With the
splendid fight our great Agricultural Col.
| lege is making and the awakening which
is everywhere apparent among our tarln.
ers--when every one of our 45,0OU,J00
acres is compelled to pay its fullest tri-
butte to huuanity--the time is not far
distant when the Missouri farmer will be
producing surplus amounting to bill
lion dollars a year. Notwithstanding
these inherent merits, Missouri farm
lands are today the most undervalued in
the county. The equal OF land which
sells for 500 and 500 in Illinois, Iowa
and Northern Indiana can be bought i'll
Missouri for half the mouey-and i'll
many instances for even less. This is
o',e of the things the Federation OF Mis-
s,uri Commercial Clubs has set out to
correct and if we receive the proper sup
port we will revolutionize Missouri farm
values during the next five years and n-
duce the greatest immigration into the
state ever known in its history.
Our prospects along industrial lines are
even brighter. With hundreds Of thous
auds of acres of rich coal beds which
haven't been touched, with unlimited
quantities Of lead, zinc, iron ore, lumber
and other salient staples of manufacture,
with more than 5000 miles of railroads
within our borders, with more navigable
streams than any other state i'll the
= Union, with uudeveloped water power
facilities sufficient to drive at low cost
the engines Of half dozen s,ates--wth
these resources and faci,i,cs it will be
tn 1url ,,f "A
prosressiveness if Missouri don't become
the chief manufacturing state in the
l heart of the Nation in the next fif,eei
or twenty years.
Altogether, story can be told to tn,
American people about Missouri which
i will read as fascinatingly as an Arabian
r Nights Dream, and this we have set GU
J. to do. Except for our large cities on
d state is practically blank from manu-
n featuring standpoint. Unlike such state
a as Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and Ohio
x you find no smoke stacks in the scores q
o splendid inland towns Of Missouri. Grea
l. as we are agriculturally, there isn't
s. plow, cuilivator, corn planter, manur
x spreader or other big farm implemen
e factory in the state. and for years on
'e farmers have been paying tribute {
II millions annually to implement man,
s. fac,urers east Of the Mississippi Rive
of Although we are the leading Poultry sta,
'e in the Union there isn't an incubatt
'e factory of consequence in Missouri-an
T. it is nigh time that this state OF affair
rs was correct ID.
G. The Federation also hopes to bring C.
et our interests, big or little, into close
touch with each other, for in the end v
IN must all rise or fall together. Ever
~ town in the state, il makes 70 different
- how small ii is, should be represented
Ut the State Federation meeting at Jeiferst
rs City, ON Jan. % and -. !, will be Il
We greatest Conservation Congress" ev
ms held in Missouri, aud on the progIa
s' vii! be list Of speakers worth goir
ck many miles 10 hear. Gov. David
ly Francis will act as Toastmastcr AT the b
no banquet, Oh the night of January z3.
80 WILLIAM HIRrH,
,, Chairman Federation OF Missouri
Commercial Clubs,