. Annual report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture. Missouri. State Board of Agriculture; Agriculture -- Missouri. 424 (/nri Aijriciilliiral U<[xirL MISSOURI FARM FACTS AND RURAL PROBLEMS. (By W. L. Nelson, Assistant Secretary Board of Agriculture.) INTRODUCTORY. A number of months ago the autlior mailed a list of some seventy questions, dealing with coun- try life conditions, to the six hundred correspond- ents of the ]\Iissouri State Board of Agriculture. The replies cover the 114 counties of the State and give a valuable insight into farming from the farmer's viewpoint. It
. Annual report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture. Missouri. State Board of Agriculture; Agriculture -- Missouri. 424 (/nri Aijriciilliiral U<[xirL MISSOURI FARM FACTS AND RURAL PROBLEMS. (By W. L. Nelson, Assistant Secretary Board of Agriculture.) INTRODUCTORY. A number of months ago the autlior mailed a list of some seventy questions, dealing with coun- try life conditions, to the six hundred correspond- ents of the ]\Iissouri State Board of Agriculture. The replies cover the 114 counties of the State and give a valuable insight into farming from the farmer's viewpoint. It is very gratifying to note that the answers received are not those of ranting demagogues or w. L. NELSON. chronic fault-finders, but of thoughtful, intelli- gent men, who see many remedies within their own reach, men who have more to say of the need of crop rotation, soil conservation, better seed and M^ell-bred stock, than of trusts, combines and monopolies. True, the need of country co-operation is frequently mentioned, just as is the importance of a from-country-to-customer trade with its promise of doing away with so many middlemen, who are said to be responsible for more than fifty per cent, of the cost of farm products to the consumer. Considering the general character of the replies, it may be said that ranting has given place to reason; the talker, to the thinker; the doubter, to the GREATEST FARM NEED OR PROBLEM. One question submitted was, "What, in your opinion, is the greatest need of the farmer of today, or the greatest problem with which he must contend V Of 440 correspondents who replied to this question, 286 seem to have considered the need, while 154 evidently had in mind the problem. It is, of course, impossible to divide the replies with exactness. Of the replies received. 111, practically one-fourth of the entire number, or almost 40 per cent, of those who answered the question from the problem viewpoint, answered, "Hired ; Sixty-t
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