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42 - MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
We need more knowledge in this respect, and I am glad 
that our scientists are taking this matter up, I am glad that 
our schools are taking this matter up, and we can get 
this knowledge from them. But we cannot do it all; as 
the Chairman has stated, the study part of the work has 
to come in a certain degree separate from the labor part, 
and so, as we try to do the labor part, we want our 
scientists in these schools and colleges to do the studying 
part, so that we may better know what to do to have suc- 
cessful orchards and gardens. 
We want to be more business-like in our methods. We 
need to be more business-like in our development of the 
fruit interest and in the development of all parts of this 
horticultural work. We want to do more as the merchant 
does, as the lawyer does, as the mechanic does ;— when we 
find a certain thing to be done, to go at it systematically, 
and judiciously, and earnestly, and make a success of that 
part of the work. We want, when we plant an orchard, to 
plant enough so that dealers will come and buy the fruit; 
we want to grow our fruits in lots of ten thousand bushels, 
twenty thousand bushels, and then, when we have a harvest 
to sell of ten or twenty or thirty thousand bushels of 
apples, it will be very easy to sell them. I have in my 
mind now a man in the western part of the state who sold 
an orchard for thirty thousand dollars. It is when men can 
come into these districts and get large quantities, that it is 
for our advantage, and so we want to be more systematic 
and more energetic, judicious and far-reaching in what we 
plan and plant. 
While we need so many things, I hardly know how to 
state them. We want to know how to feed our plants. I 
wonder if we ever will; I wonder if you can ever tell us 
how to feed our trees (addressing the Chairman) so that 
they will produce a certain quality of fruit, a certain color 
of fruit. I wonder if feeding our trees has any thing to do 
with our success. I wonder if we can feed our trees as we 
feed our hogs and cattle, knowing that so much food will 
