REPORTS OF COUNTY SOCIETIES 



BARRY COUNTY. 



The efforts of the Barry County Horticultural Association during 

 1894 have not been as productive of results as was wished. That the 

 partial failure of apples and almost total failure of peaches had a dis- 

 heartening effect upon those who thought that to plant meant to reap, 

 there can be no doubt, and, feeling a little discouraged, thought that 

 an organized effort to better matters would be no better than they 

 could do singly. In this they were, of coarse, mistaken. 



The meetings of the Association are held monthly at places in the 

 county inviting it. During tbe past year meetings were held at Cass- 

 ville, Exeter, Washburn, Seligman, Mineral Springs and Muncey Chapel. 

 The most noteworthy of these was the October meeting at Cassville, 

 at which the annual fruit, grain and vegetable exhibit was held. This 

 was the fourth and by far the most successful exhibit ever held in the 

 county. The premiums awarded amounted to about $100 and covered 

 a wide range. The best of the apples that were donated for that pur- 

 pose were sent to the State Horticultural meeting at Trenton, where 

 they attracted a great deal of attention and won many premiums. 



Many valuable papers were read at the several meetings of the 

 Association, the most important of which I append. 



G. E. Harris, Cassville. 



BATES COUNTY. 



BuTLEB, Mo., Dec. 3, 1894. 

 L. A. Goodman, Sec'y Mo. State Horticultural Society : 



Dear Friend— We of the Bates County Horticultural Society do 

 not wish to be forgotten by the State Society. An effort is being made 

 to reinstate our work in this county. 



Oiir county is being peopled with a new and energetic class of 

 friends of horticulture. 



