The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-01-07
MISSOURrS Big SHOWING
BY w. L. Nelson, Assistant Secretary
Missouri State Board of Agricul-
ture. Figures Used in Compari.
son are From United States
Department Of Agriculture.
Let's Spread the Story, Let's Strut.

Missourians have too long looked
coward other lands as places of prom.
lse, when, in fact, the end of the rain
bow is on the old home farm, where
is hidden the fabled pot Of gold.
Not One-Crop State
Missouri is not one-crop State
and no Missouri farmer need put all
mis- eggs in one basket. Neither Nor
Ehern nor Southern State, but located
IN the very center of the agricultural
universe, Missouri, of all the States,
is alone able to give employment to
both cotton pickers and ice hands. The
United States Department of Agricul-
ture reports 1915 Missouri crop yields
as follows: Corn, 2O9, 100000 bushels;
wheat, 34,100,000 bushels; oats, 31,-
100000 bushels; barley, 125,000; rye,
S38,000 bushels, fax seed, $4,000 bush
els; potatoes, 8,820,000 bushels; sweet
potatoes, 100000 bushels; hay, 4,640,-
900 tons; tobacco, 8, 10000 bs.; cot
ION, $4,000 bales. These crops are val
ued at more than $200,00O,O00. Then
there are poultry, dairy, apiary and
timber products, whose values mount
into the millions In addition are
minor crops and by-products, from
Sunfower seed to cob pipes. Of the
latter--the missouri Meerschaum"--
we manufacture more than 25,000,000,
or enough to enable all fighting Eu-
rope to smoke the pipe of peace.
Why go West" Young Man?
In past years many good but mis-
guided Missourians, mistaking a mi
rage in the desert for the promised
land, have gone West or Southwest.
But why should they have gone?
Greeley's advice is no longer good.
Missouri has more bluegrass-the
grass that stands for permanent farm
ing and soil fertility than isgrown
in all the States to her West. A
Missouri has more milch cows than
Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma or anyi
Wetern State; more sheep than any
State that borders her; more hogs
than any State in the Union, save two,
and neither of them to the west.
In Agriculture, First at Frisco
At the Panama Pacific Exposition,
which recently closed at San Francis
&C, Missouri won the Medal of Honor
awarded for general agricultural eX-
hibit and the grand prize for installa-
ton, in addition to II gold medals, 21
silver medals, Is bronze medals and
two honorable mentions.
First in Fruit
From apples to persimmons and
rawpaws, Missouri was first at Fris-
co. Missouri's horticultural exhibit
was awarded the Medal of Honor, and
IN number of medals won Missouri
was second only to California for
fruit. At this same great interna-
tional exposition Missouri was award
ed more medals on apples than were
won by any other State or country.
With two great apple regions, the
Qzarks and the loose soil districts,
Missouri not only produces apples of
quality but apples in quantity.
Missouri's 1915 apple crop consist
ed of 6,287,000 barrels. Only New
York harvested a larger crop. The
Iowa yield was 100000 barrels;
Nebraska 1,267,000 barrels; Kansas
2,125,00O barrels; Arkansas 1885,
100 barrels, and that of the much
ieralded apple state of Washington,
22,433, 900 barrels.
Nor are apples all! With the an
llual peach production from one lit
tie district alone amounting to 1000
carloads, with strawberry crop of
half thousand carloads from an
other group of counties, and with
fruits of various kinds on practically
every farm, Missouri is, of all the
Mississippi Valley States, first in
fruit.
A Leader in Poultry Production
Missouri is the first poultry State
in the Union, figured either in pounds
or premiums. The value of Missou-
ri's surplus poultry products is now
estimated at more than $50,0O0,0O0
annually. ,
Missouri Leader in Live Stock
AS live stock State, Missouri's po-
sition is one of strength. She breeds
and feeds live stock and, in turn, her |
fields are fed. While other States {
great in grain growing sell their sub t
stance and rob their soil, Missouri {
saves.
Missouri is second to no State in t
and quality Of registered an |
.Ilals, and second to none in records !
made in public sales, at national shows