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or how, or where. Over a half million people have seen and many hun- 

 dreds have been interested in the display, and [ feel sure that it will 

 accomplish very much good for the State as a whole, and for the coun- 

 ties making the display a special good. 



These displays accomplish a deal of good in many dijft'erent ways, 

 and we can hardly tell where the influence will end, for it is like the 

 progression of 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, etc. First, then, it brings before the peo- 

 ple the advantages of the State for fruit-growing. Second, it shows 

 people that by our fruits they shall know us, and we want them to 

 come and see. Third, it lets the world know that we are alive, wide 

 awake, earnest and enthusiastic in our callings, and we want just such 

 people to come and settle among us ; and fourth, we want the reputa- 

 tion of our State Society for displays and earnestness in our cause to 

 be upheld by its works, and all to know we do not propose to be be- 

 hind any other State Society in the land. The following clippings from 

 the notices sent to the Rural World and Journal of Agriculture, ^nd 

 comments by them and others on the exhibit, will show the progress of 

 the work and the way the exhibit was received by the public: 



The State Horticultural Society. 



Colman's IJural "World: 



The thirty -seventh annual meeting of the Missouri State Horticultural Society will be 

 held at Trenton, the county seat of Grundy county, Mo., beginning Wednesday, December 

 5th prox., and continue three days. There has been a large crop of fruit in that part of 

 the State this year, and It is expected that this will stimulate the farmers and orchardlsts 

 to turn out and attend the meeting that they may tell their fellow-farmers all about it, and 

 as well hear the reports from other sections and the lessons of experience leai'ned by otliers 

 who will tal^e part in the proceedings. During the three days' sessions much information 

 on timel3' topics will be dispensed and many things of importance come before the Society 

 for discussion; lience we expect a more than ordinarily profitable and instructive gather- 

 ing of fruit culturlsts of the State. 



The olflcers of the Society are doing a grand work for the State at large, and If "Iceep- 

 Ing everlastingly at it brings success," they will assuredly compass their ob.lect and gain 

 their point. Let It be known that no other body of men in the State are doing more, nay, 

 doing as much, to make its grand possibilities known as the officers of the State Horticul- 

 tural Society, and somebody will presently come to the front and recognize It and yield to 

 them their meed of praise. In 1898 they put in six full months at the World's fair, with a 

 display that was simply unparalleled, and that did more to advertise the State than any 

 other effort made there. But, in order to make that six months show, another six months' 

 work had to be done in preparation and in closing up and settling. 



This year again they were called upon to make a show at the St. Louis exposition, 

 where for 40 consecutive days and nights they maintained the integrity of the State with 

 20<X) plates of fruit, exhibiting 2.56 varieties of apples,.^! of pears, i'i of grapes, 17 of plums, and 

 with the display of agricultural products brought from the World's fair, made by all odds 

 the grandest representative exhibition of the products of tlie State ever made In it, and tlie 

 most conspicuous display In the building Does the reader suppose that this Is all done to 

 nojpurposeV Does any one imagine for a moment that these grand displays are without ef- 

 fect? By no manner of means. They testify to soil and climate, to the thrift and genius of 

 our people, and to successful enterprise on every hand. It will be worth good money to 

 go to this meeting at Trenton and hear the officers tell of their work, and hear what they 

 have to say as to the future. Write L. A. Goodman, Secretary, Westport, Me., for all In- 

 formation. 



