60 State Horticultural Society. 



received a letter from a man in Minnesota making inquiries about this 

 country, and he had written him that this was a verj good farming- 

 country ; but not a fruit country. At this point his wife spoke up and 

 said she thought this country was all right for fruit, but there were too 

 many like her husband. They had a beautiful young orchard just 

 beginning to bear and he seeded it to grass and turned the horses and 

 cattle in to eat the grass, the result was the orchard was about de- 

 stroyed. That is the trouble with about three-fourths of the orchards. 

 As this seems to be a natural grass country and so many of the farmers 

 are more interested in stock than they are in fruit, when they see the 

 nice grass growing in the orchard they cannot resist the temptation. 

 to give the stock a treat, so what trees have survived the borers and 

 other insects (which have had full sway in the orchard) the cattle- 

 finish. Then these men will say this is no fruit country. However, I 

 am glad to say there is coming a change. The few Joshua's and 

 Caleb's are having their influence and I believe the time is coming; 

 before many years when Miller county will be one of the leading fruit 

 growing counties in the State. 



FOURTH SESSION.— Wednesday Evening. 



The entertainment of the evening was supplied by a piano solo 

 by Miss Hendrick, recitations by Miss Helen Robnett and Miss Trail, 

 and a zither solo. 



THE FORESTRY QUESTION. 

 (By ]\Iiss Emma J. Park, Springfield, Mo.) 



A late editorial begins: "One of the great questions of the world, 

 just now is the future of the fuel and lumber supply." When we know 

 that 90 per cent, of our virgin forests are gone, and we are using to- 

 day an excess of 33 per cent, of our natural production, we can realize 

 that it is "a great question," at least, with the United States, and that 

 in the near future part of our lumber supply must come from other 

 countries. 



Some states have awakened to the importance of a knowledge off 

 forestry and are working to save the remaining timber for a more 

 rational use. Wisconsin has published an interesting bulletin which is 



