Excerpt from Thirty Eighth Annual Report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture: A Record of the Work for the Year 1905 Trusting that our humble efforts may result in increased prosperity, not alone to the farmers, but to all other classes of the people of this great State, and that our work may be a contributing factor to the success of your administration, I remain. 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.