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an editor with a horticultural turn. We use his paper as the semi- 

 official organ of the Society. Any new idea of importance gets into 

 his paper. 



Mr. Goodrich — In Illinois we have an annual appropriation of 

 $4000 to support twelve stations. The purpose of these stations is to 

 experiment with a view of learning the best varieties of fruits, the 

 best methods of cultivation, spraying, etc. These twelve stations are 

 scattered all over to state. Our State society is made of three sections, 

 northern, central and southern. Our Secretary is over-worked and 

 under-paid. No secretary in the United States is well paid for his 

 time, care, thought and labor. We try to base our work, upon actual 

 experience. About one-third of the counties have societies. In 

 Union county there are five incorporated societies for the purpose of 

 business. In the county south of me they have a Grange society that 

 holds a Grange fair. We hope to have the pleasure of receiving a 

 delegate from your Society at our meeting next week. 



Mr. Morrill — We want to see a delegate from this body at Low-ell, 

 Mich., at our next meeting. 



Mr. Holsinger — Kansas wants a delegate at Fort Scott next week. 



The Agricultural College. 



Another item of business that was not on the program was offered 

 on Thursday, when the Committee on Resolutions offered the following, 

 which, with the exception of one negative voice, was adopted unani- 

 mously after considerable debate : 



Whereas, It Is the judgment of the members of the Missouri 8tate Horticultural So- 

 ciety, as well as many of the farmers of the State, that the Missouri State University Is an 

 institution of which any citizen should be proud; but that the State Agrlcultufal college 

 and the State Experiment station part thereof are not what tliey should be, nor what the 

 State has a right to expect of them, because of the overshadowing influence of the Univer- 

 sity In the use of the moneys properly belonging to them. To such an extent is this appar- 

 ent, to such an extent have these funds amounting to nearly $50,(X)0 a year been misappro- 

 priated, that the Agricultural college and Experiment station are almost completely 

 osscured, their usefulness paralyzed, and their very existence almost unknown. Tlie 

 funds of the Agricultural college have been used to advance the interest of the University, 

 contrary to the terms of the act of Congress which gave to the State the means for the 

 establishment of an Agricultural college. These funds have been absorbed from year to 

 year to pay the professors of the University, to pay for brick and the materials for build- 

 ing, and not for the benefit of the College, but to advance the interests of the University 

 proper. 



The sons of our farmers who desire an agricultural and horticultural education do not 

 get it in Missouri, because they fall to find the Agricultural college and are compelled to go 

 elsewhere to And such an institution existing by and of Itself, and entirely separate from 

 the University. 



