. Annual report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture. Missouri. State Board of Agriculture; Agriculture -- Missouri. The Missouri Corn Growers' Association. Motto: "Increase the yield—improve the quality.'" OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION. F. H. Crowell, Butler, President. C. B. Hutchison, Columbia, Secretary-Treasurer. T. R. Douglass, Columbia, Assistant Secretary. VICE PRESIDENTS. 0. J. White, Fairfax. M. McCauley, Doniphan. W. H. Brown, Clarksville. Sanford Smith, Reeds. Christ. Ohlendorf, Boonville. (C. B. Hutchison, Assistant Professor of Agronomy, University of Missouri.) Sec
. Annual report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture. Missouri. State Board of Agriculture; Agriculture -- Missouri. The Missouri Corn Growers' Association. Motto: "Increase the yield—improve the quality.'" OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION. F. H. Crowell, Butler, President. C. B. Hutchison, Columbia, Secretary-Treasurer. T. R. Douglass, Columbia, Assistant Secretary. VICE PRESIDENTS. 0. J. White, Fairfax. M. McCauley, Doniphan. W. H. Brown, Clarksville. Sanford Smith, Reeds. Christ. Ohlendorf, Boonville. (C. B. Hutchison, Assistant Professor of Agronomy, University of Missouri.) Secretary Missouri Corn Growers' Association. The Missouri Corn Growers' Association was organized in 1903 by the students of the College of Agriculture of the University of Missouri to pro- .mote and further the improvement of corn grow- ing in Missouri. At the time of organization little systematic effort was being made to improve the corn crop of Missouri except by a few individuals, and it was with the idea of bringing these men together in a more effective working body that this organiza- tion was founded. Starting with a few students as members, the Association has grown and prospered until now its membership includes the foremost corn growers and breed- ers of this State. The Association has always had an annual meeting in connection with the Corn Show, both of which are held each year during Farmers' Week at the College of Agriculture. The Association has had an im- portant part in the development of Farmers' Week and was one of the tirst organizations of this kind to establish the custom of having its annual meeting at this time. At these annual meetings papers are read and subjects, relating to the growing and breeding of corn, discussed by the most noted specialists in this work that the nation affords. These meetings have proven to be a combined school and conference for Mis- souri corn growers, and much good to the cause of Agriculture in gen- eral has resulted from
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