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 Home, Agricultural and Live Stock Statistics, Etc Governor of Missouri, Herbert S. Hadley. Superintendent of Schools, H. A. Gass. Dean Agricultural College, F. B. Mumford. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.