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and the good work you are doing. I hope you will go on in your work 

 and have a county association in this county, if you haven't any now. 

 Let the good influence of fruit growing go on and on until we all shall 

 be made wiser, happier and better. I thank you for your kind attention. 



]\Ir. Levi Chubbuck of St. Louis, Mo. : 



Friends — It is hardly necessary to call on another editor, it seems to 

 TTie. Though, of course, I appreciate the fact that you did call on me. 

 T don't know that I have anything to say on the topic under discussion 

 this morning. 



As I listened to the discussion and the remarks of experience, it 

 struck me that it was a very necessary thing to develop so many new 

 A^'arieties of strawberries. ^Missouri is a great .State in many conditions. 

 We have nearly all kinds of soil and climate. It seems, then, that we 

 should have a large number of varieties to select from to suit the locality 

 of the grower. I think it is well that we have the development of va- 

 rieties. 



Another point. Here we watch for the development of fruit grow- 

 ers among the farmers. To a certain extent this is all right. But be- 

 yond that I question. I believe that he can put his land to better use. 

 He needs to get over the idea that it is wrong for him to spend his 

 money for fruit and then he can look to the fruit grower for his fruit. 

 This would certainly be an advantage to the fruit grower. While the 

 farmer could devote his land to his crops and I believe that it would be 

 an advantage to him as well as the fruit grower. The fruit grower 

 makes a business of it, can raise better fruit, deliver it better and in better 

 shape than one not accustomed to it. I agree that there is a point there. 

 The quality of fruit is to be considered. I think it is a great art to know 

 all about the business. But it is this that the consumers in the cities do 

 not appreciate; they were brought up on the farms. I find that it is 

 very hard to get fresh, good fruits or vegetables on the markets. We have 

 lieard a great deal about the variety of fruit that can be shipped a long 

 distance. But I do not think it is the best. Now, if there was a ready 

 market among the farmers and people in the near surroundings of the 

 fruit grower, he could afford to raise better class of fruit instead -of 

 confining himself to that which can be shipped long distances by rail. 

 They could sell it at their own homes. 



Now, I do not want to be understood to say that I do not think the 

 farmer should raise any fruit on his place at all. No ; I do not mean 

 that. But I do believe there is a point there that the farmers and fruit 

 growers should reciprocate. 



Judge Miller of Bluft'ton, ]\Io. — As good crop of berries as I ever 

 grew were from plants on a dry season that never made runners at all. 



