Winter Meeting. 271 



Membership by M. Butterfield 46.00 



Membership by L. A. Goodman 45-00 



$667.33 

 Disbursements 619.85 



Balance ' $4748 



The following is a list of the premiums taken on Missouri fruit at 

 the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, N. Y. : 



10 Gold medals. 



88 Silver and bronze medals. 

 6 Certificates of honorable mention. 



Also the Missouri State Horticultural Society was awarded the 

 Wilder medal by the American Pomological Society at its meeting in 

 Buffalo, September 12 to 14, 1901. 



It is well for us to state here in answer to so many questions about it, 

 that our late Treasurer A. Nelson of Lebanon, Mo., after his appointment 

 by Gov. Stephens as Horticultural Commissioner for Missouri, collected 

 and put in cold storage in St. Louis one hundred and forty barrels of 

 apples to be used for this display. After C. C. Bell was appointed by 

 Gov. Dockery, the Commission bought of Mr. Nelson these apples for 

 use, and did use them during the summer, on the table, making a fine 

 showing. To Mr. Nelson's untiring energy is due the fact that our State 

 was so well represented in the apple show. 



Added to this was the collection of apples made by the Society, and 

 held in cold storage by Armour Packing Co., at Kansas City. These 

 apples were repacked and all re-wrapped in July, making twenty-eight 

 barrels of the finest apples that could be found, and shipped to Mr. Bell 

 at Buffalo for the Commission. These apples were some of the best 

 collected over the State from our dffferent members, and to them with 

 the above is due the credit of many of the awards, as has always been 

 the case in all our exhibits. In justice to our late Treasurer and to our 

 public spirited fruit growers and the inquiry of our members, I make this 

 statement. 



L. A. GOODMAN, 



Secretary Missouri Horticultural Society. 



