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Greeley predicted or supposed that. In the course of time, St. Louis would be the greatest 

 city on the face of the earth, as London Is at the present day. I suppose he based his con- 

 clusions from tlie ^reat material resources that lie around 8t. Louis, as the Iron mountain, 

 coal In abundance, agricultural and horticultural and other great wealth almost vvltliout 

 limit; the great river that sweeps by St. Louis will keep the poison elements all swept away 

 to the sea. Our great Kansas t'lty has also this advantage of a great river. Froin the signs 

 of the times now, our great state Is about to awake from her slumbers and march on to her 

 true destiny. Vours truly, 



AViLUAM McCkat. 



Chicago, 111., Oct. 12, 1894. 

 Mr. L. A. GOODMAN, Westport, "Slo. : 



Dear Sli'— Your card received today, and a notice of your annual meeting will appear 

 In the next Issue of O. J. Farmer. I would suggest that the matter of carefully picking and 

 packing fruits for shipment be fully treated; also, the matter of uniform quality through- 

 out package and uniform size of package, barrel, box or crate. The great injury to the 

 fruit trade through careless and dishonest packing has been forcibly Impressed upon me In 

 my work of reporting fruit markets In Chicago. A thorough airing of this matter would 

 set people to thinking. Any further announcement I shall be glad to publish. 



Cordially yours, 



C. A. Shamel, Managing Editor. 



Shannon Hotel, Castle Connell, County Limebick, Ireland, Dec. 13, 1894. 

 L. A. Goodman, Esq., Secretary Missouri State Horticultural Society: 



Dear Sir— \A^lshlng to satisfy inquiries by residents and tourists at this place, where I 

 am at pi'esent sojourning for my health, regarding Missouri, its climate, soil, scenery, rivers, 

 lakes, prairies and other such matters, I applied to the Secretary of the Horticultural 

 Society at St. Louis, for any pamphlets bearing on tliese subjects that he may have for dis- 

 tribution. Without delay, the State Horticultural Society annual reports for 1891, 1892, 189J 

 reached me. These I have placed In the Shannon hotel library, for perusal by persons stay- 

 ing at the hotel. Already tliey have elicited much praise and admiration for the clear, 

 extensive and valuable information contained In them, and for the good type, paper andl 

 binding in which they are presented. ' 



Please to accept my sincere tlianks. 



I am, very respectfully, your humble servant, 



t John .1. IIo<;an, 



Bishop of Kansas City. 



Green Meadows Fruit Farm, Taradale, ( 

 Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, Oct. 12, 1894. ( 



To the Secretary Missouri State Horticultural Society : 



Dear Sir— Will you kindly send me one of your pamphlets, "Hand-book of Horticultural 



Knowledge of Missouri," and if there is any charges thereon, I shall gladly remit a post- 



offlce order for amount. I am sir, yours faithfully, 



Sidney F. Anderson, Manager. 



Atterbury, Mo., Feb. 11, 1895. 

 L. .\. Goodman. Esq. : 



Dear Sir— I write to ask you whether or not you would advise all these trees, both ap- 

 ple, pear and peach, dipped in kerosene emulsion to destroy aphis In my oldest orchard 

 I have considerable already, andl want to commence war on them at once; and will it 

 damage the trees to dip so as to cover the roots and two feet of the body ? How strong 

 would you advise making the emulsion ? Yours truly, 



W. K. Williamson. 



Answer — Yes ; use the emulsion of the usual strength. 



IIarrisonville, Ca.ss Co., Mo., Oct. 29, 1894. 

 Mr. L. A. Goodman, Westport : 



Dear Slr—I received your card, and In answer will say that I would like to have a 



thorough discussion at the December meeting at Princeton of the pear, the varieties and 



management of a commercial orchard of 1000 trees; also, an orchard of 600 cherry trees, 



likewise a vineyard of nine acres of grapes. Those are the fruits that lam mostly Interested 



In, andl want all the Information that I can get. I have been experimenting with the 



grape this season by trying Father Clagett's method of prundlng. I took ten vines for trial. 



