Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-11-09

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Prof. A. GorreH of Mcmillan High
School has just returned from Column
bia where he attended a convention
of vocational agriculture teachers. DR..
C. H. Lane, chief of the Board Of
Vocational Agriculture at Washing
ton, D. c., was present and declared
the Smith Hughes bill Of 1917 was
the greatest social program ever I'M
dertaken by any government" He
said the boys and girls club work
is just beginning. He spoke Of the
need of giving evening courses to
the farmers and their families. Prof.
Gorrell was one of the first vocational
agriculture teachers in the state to
conduct evening courses. He is now
giving a course in Poultry Raising
at Cedar Grove Schoolhouse and will
give a course at any other school
where enough are interested. About
thirty-two persons have been attend
ing the classes at Cedar Grove. Those
taking the course are allowed to
select the subject for the course.
Without a dissenting voice the
Board of Curators of the University
of Missouri the other day decided to
ask Missouri's next Legislature to APP
propriate $225,000 to build and equip
a modern dairying building at the
College of Agriculture. Four hun
bred students are now enrolled in the
dairying and creamery courses at the
College in quarters so small that all
classes now have to be divided into
sections and squads in order to give
each student an opportunity to use
the equipment.
"Dairying in Missouri is growing
by leaps and bounds" says Dean F.
b. Mumford of the College of Agri-
culture, "and is destined to be one
of the greatest of MissouriAs indust-
ries. In every state where dairying
has come to be a leading industry the
state college of agriculture has had
a leading part in its development.
This is true in Missouri where the
College of Agriculture, through the
dairy department and the Extension
Eervice, has been doing everything
in its power to make dairying con-
stantly more productive and profta-
ble."
On record are hundreds Of instan-
ces wherein the College, by establish
ing better dairy practices, has in
creased the wealth Of Missouri COM
munities. Correct practice increases
the amount of milk and butterfat
produced from each dollars worth of
coarse feeds-increasing not only the
dairyman's profit but also the wealth
of marketable concentrates produced
in the state. In one year % farmers
cooperating with the College in
Pettis County cow testing work in
creased their net production 81 cents
for every dollars worth of grain and
roughage consumed. This increase
during a single year in 23 herds a
mounted to $4,000.
The possibilities for the State of
this investment in better dairying
are absolutely without limit, and
justly many times the expenditure
asked by the University curators for
a dairy building and equipment COM
mensurate with the demands already
made upon this department.
The Middleton second Combination
Hog Sale at the Middleton Sale Paw
ilion Saturday afternoon vas well at
tended and bidding spirited although
there was some disappointment on
account of the failure of the red hog
consignment. e
The H. w. Smith of Cant white
hog consignment was the most at
tractive and sold rapidly at fair
prices.
B. L. Hildebrand of Benton City
and Jack Pulls of Thompson were
the largest buyers of white hogs
o. w. Martin, ]. T. Johnson and
Fletcher Sims were the largest buy,
ers of black hogs.
About fi~fty-seven animals were
sold, totaling about eight hundred
dollars.
Much interest was shown in the
= sale and appreciation expressed con.
corning the continuance of the COM