Excerpt from Forty-Second Annual Report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture: A Record of the Work for the Year 1909; Also Valuable Information on Breeding and Feeding Live-Stock, Improving the Fertility of the Soil, Growing Groups, Dairying, Road-Making, Home Economics and the Improvement of the Farm Stock Statistics, Etc

It has been the custom of this office to collect the material for the Secretary's Annual Report after the annual meeting, which is held in December. This year, owing to my retirement on March 1st, it is practically impossible to complete the report by that time. I have up to this date prepared the official part of the report with some other matter, including reprints from the monthly bulletins, and have left the work to be finished by my assistant, Hon. W. L. Nelson, who has very kindly consented to finish the copy and read the proof.

In retiring from the office I wish to acknowledge the loyalty and valuable support I have received from the members of the Board, from Assistant Secretary Nelson, State Highway Engineer Curtis Hill, State Veterinarian Dr. D. F. Luckey, and the chief stenographer, Miss J. B. Rector, as well as every member of the faculty of the Agricultural College.

To my successor I extend my hearty wish that he may be able to improve greatly on my work to the end that Missouri may become the greatest agricultural State in the Union.

To the farmers of the State who have taken such deep interest in the work of the office, I return my grateful acknowledgments.

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