The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-01-24
1918 FARM BOARD RECORD

51st annual report of the Missouri
State Board of Agriculture, showing
that the total value of all farm crops
of 1918 was $462, 461 10000, and that
the war crops of 1917 and 1918 broke
all previous records by reaching $780,
9S7 1900.
The Board finished the biennial pc
Rod with a saving of available funds
of $20,540.62 in cash, including
amounts reverting to the State, be-
sides $20,500.00 tied up by agreement.
Expenditures in 1917 totaled SCI $685.
81, in 1918 $55,983.27, and for both
years SIT, 608.99, including the State
veterinary service and State Bureau
of Dairying, and there is no deficiency
in any fund.
The Board in licensing and controll-
ing the labelling and sale of live stock
and poultry feed has registered LAT
brands of different feeds by 1872 mills
and distributors. In eighteen months
Missouri has changed from the dump
ing ground of feeds to the 42nd State
requiring every sack or package to
show ingredients and feeding value,
and it is estimated that this act has
saved farmers, feeders, dairymen and
poultrymen more than million dol
lars.
The preliminary federal returns on
our cooperative hog cholera control
show 25,l54 hogs treated in infected
herds, 100000 treated in well herds
with 10,504 farms visited, this branch
of the service being in charge of DR..
D. F. Luckey, State Veterinarian, in
cooperation with DR.. Ralph Graham
of the Bureau of Animal Industry of
the u. S. Department of Agriculture
and the College of Agriculture. Many
cattle and sheep have been treated.
State experiments for immunizing
young cattle against tuberculosis have
been conducted, and control work in
bovine tuberculosis pushed as funds
permitted.
During 1917, 56,342 cattle were
tested for tuberculosis, and CAB con-
demned. The 1918 reports of the
nearly 200 deputies are not all finally
tabulated, but to the year end 467 were
reported condemned. The biennial to-
tails are estimated at 1882 tested
and lilo condemned, the large por-
ton from the public stock yards being
tested and killed without financial loss
to the State.
The State and Federal veterinarians
estimate the saving in sick and well
t; .aa' oo W. nIS Of nboIoSa ;ncluding the
ir r confidence in swine produc-
t;on 70 how boen worth s10 0o6 600 to
M;nsour; farmers DIVING 1917 and
iaIe Tho Foderal Govarnmant snends
a Jr e5o oo0 M Nor biennial in This
co~nnaratinn with the BOARD.
IT, VOL of State Da;rv Commits
s;onar T r. Rannett includes 65 calf
Ibis orroni1ed bringing into Mis-
snmr; drr;nr 1o,7 270O biph grade
5o;nr oaiuag ord yonnr COWS 1900 in
Ioto ISoo n tha b;enn;aI nar;od NOT
;nolnd;n no. caives from these cattle. re-
snIt;ng n increasing Missouri's dairy
It'll vaIration s9O0 o0o
S,,ndrv farm laws are recommended.
osnso;aily rev;s;on Of the 1919 state
All to Gonntv Fair law promising 90
no.. cont Of county fair nremiI,ms nv
tho Stato suggasting the changing TO
Ok nov cent S1 tho State and 25 per
cent bv local county courts.
The most important change in the
executive work is the new coZopera.
five agreement on crop reportinp
nniting the State Board of Agricui-
tnre With the Bureau of Crop Esti-
mates of the United States Depart
mert of Agriculture. resulting in Gre
atine county crop reports issued
monthly, and saving $1,000 per wear
in hostage through the postal frank
inp privilege thus secured. and en-
larqing the service during the first
wear inst closed. Missouri being the
Srd State to take this step.
THE Secretary recommends to the
BOARD and to the Missouri Legislature
that the "Museum of Natural Re-
sources" of our new State capitol be
at once fitted up with glass cases and
proper fixtures for exhibiting the pro-
ductst of the soil of the fifth State,
making this hall a permanent show
Mace.
The non-partisan policy of the
Board has been continued. and en-
pIovees of both political parties are
in our service without regard to poll
tics Two Young men. lately returned
from the army are re-engaged in
their old places,
During 1917 554O 600 papes of