The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-07-06
Missouri A Great State.

souri," In this bulletin the auth
or, w. L. Nelson, Assistant Secre,
tary, says:
Missouri has more farm homes
owned and unincumbered than has
iowa, Illinois, or Kansas.
Missouri is a state Of home own
ers. She has fewer rented farms
than Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska,
Kansas, or Oklahoma.
In number of hogs Missouri,
with 4,5O5,00O head, ranks second
among all the states. The MisSou-
ri hog is not a hazel splitter, -
but an institution with hams
and history.
During the last census decade
the value of Missouri lands doub-
led, and corresponhngly increased
more than those of any state to
her west, or any state bordering
on the north or south.
Missouri is a great corn state.
According to the last census, the
leading states in the production
of corn were Illinois, Iowa, Indi-
ana, and Missouri. These four
states together reported more
than two-fifths of the total pro-
duction of the United States.
Missouri is truly center state
Here is the heart of the great
corn belt. Here is the center OF
farm values, and also the center
OF improved acreage. The state
ment is also made that in Mis-
souri, is the cattle center, the hog
center, the horse and mule center,
and the center of farm production
for the United States.
Missouri live stock is remark
ably free from disease. Texas
fever, sheep scabies, and CHAMBERS
and practically unknown. Dur
ing the foot-and-mouth outbreak
there was not one case in Missou-
ri. The result of the work If pro-
viding a pure milk supply for
Missouri cities, and of keeping
healthy the herds of the state, is
Il striking story Of 9ress- and
efficiency.
Missouri has a splendid system
of public schools. Ours is not an
illiterate state. Taking her pop
ulation as a whole, Missouri is not
as illiterate as New Hampshire,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island Con-
necticut, or New York. Further
more, in some Of these states IL
literacy is decreasing but little. or
is actually increasing, while in
Missouri. our limited illiteracy is
rapidly decreasing.
For the average farmer to in
vest nothing in live stock in order
that he might have more to ex-
pend for buildings would repre-
sent poor business Judgment. 1t
does not follow, that because the
average Missouri farmer chooses
to invest $1,03l in live stock and
only 1919 in buildings that he is
less efficient than the Massachu-
sets farmer, who puts $2,40l in
buildings and only 1862 in live
stock.
Missouri is a great fruit state
In 1915 we were excelled in apple |
production by but one state, and
in peach production but by four
states. In combined apple and
peach production Missouri was
second among the states. In
blackberries and dewberries Mis-
souri, ranks first among the states.
At the Panama-Pacific Exposi-
ton Missouri was awarded more
medals apples than were award
ed any other state or country.
Missouri is a leader in live
stock. In number Of registered
cattle of the four beef breeds.
Missouri is outranked by no state.
In Angus, Missouri is second: in
Herefords, third; in Galloways.
bird; in Shorthorns, fourth. Ours
S state Of great breeders and of
ong established herds. Missouri
las recently established records in
he sale, both Of Hereford and
,horthorn cattle. Herefords aver
lging $l,246 and Shorthorns, ST.
)S3. ,
The statement has been made ;
hat Missouri ranks forty-first ,
mong the states in average acre ;
of all farm crops. Suf- ,
ice it is to say that at the head $
f the column cited to prove the t
deficiency of the Missouri farm [
r stand Massachusetts, Rhode Is .
and, and Connecticut. Who is so I
polish as to say that these little t