Mexico weekly ledger., 1921-02-10
Is First of States In
Many of Products and Stock
Missouri is first in poultry.
Missouri is first in diversified farm

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Missouri is first in number of crops
and fruits.
Missouri has the largest feeder cat
tie market In the world.
Missouri has the first and largest
hay market in the world.
Missouri is first in the production of
eggs and of market poultry.
Missouri is first in profits in the pro-
duction Of pure-bred live stock.
Missouri is first as a we'll watered
state, both for crops and for live
stock.
missouri grows more, better and
taller blue grass than Kentucky or
any other state.
Missouri has both the first and Sec
md largest horse and mule markets in
4 the world.
Missouri is first in quality and
Flavor of all fruit, not overlooking ap-
Pples, persimmons or pawpaws.
Gentry county, Missouri, grows
more blue grass and blue grass seen
than any other county in the world.
Missouri, in number Of poultry and
annual sales of poultry products, is
the first state in the poultry world.
Missouri grows more blue grass
than all the combined States north of
it's northern border or south of its
southern border.
Missouri live stock live outdoors
more days in the year and with less
loss from exposure than the animals
of any of the other great live stock
states.
Missouri wins more mute and jack
I prizes at public stock shows and fairs
than any other state or nationalist
in the show rings and markets of the
world.
Missouri is the home of more fine
Shorthorn and Hereford ~pure-bred
cattle than any other state in this
nation.
Missouri is the home of more great
live stock breeders and more long
established herds than any other state
can show in a hundred years of de-
velopment.
Missouri live stock has won, first
and last, more combined honors in the
show ring than those of any other
state, considering numbers, and sig
nal victories, in a. united group.
Missouri wins more blue ribbons
and prizes on live stock, and holds
more successfulpublic stock shows and
sales of pure-bred high grade live
stock, than any other Of the states,
and also tops the great fat stock
markets oftener.
Missouri. is the first cattle state in
the nation, when you consider it from
the combined standpoint Of both grade
n pure-bred cattle, their cost Of pro-
duction, their quality, and the acre
cost of grazing and wintering, the
state being first in live stock profits.
Missouri farmers do not carry all
the eggs in one basket at any time
therefore seldom first in the size of
ANY crop, yet oftenef the standard Of
average yield and condition of many
(crops than any other state in these
4 United States.
Missouri has L040,0O0 horses, 378,-
] 900 mules, 9l9,Oso milk cows, 1,746,-
4 600 other cattle, 1,525,000 sheep, A.
5000 hogs, and 33,178,000 poultry.
Total of meat animals, 8,495,000.
4 Value of live stock 1920 on a cor
Il sentative grade basis, $378,840,400.
Missouri is fourth (1920) in live
stock values, and eighth (1919) in
value of all crops, third in winter
wheat production, growing more corr
than twenty-three states combined,
and more hogs than twenty-one states,
being on an average year The Fourth
State in American Agriculture.
Missouri's field, orchard and garden
cfops in 1919 totaled $3.50, 050,260. III
addition, the miscellaneous rural pro
dapcts totaled s433, 621 ,080. The live
stock amounted to $685. o,40o, omit
ting ~pure-bred increases above meat
or grade values. Grand total, $1,378,-
B11,740-A Billion Dollar State!