304 State Horticultural Society. 



grown in South Missouri. I do not know much about the prices that 

 were realized in the district below me where they grow them more exten- 

 sively. I do not know whether in all sections there they realized good 

 prices or not. I know that in Greene county, where we are not growing 

 them to any. grea.t extent, we only shipped four carloads, but the home 

 market was good. Th^re were no good peaches sold for less than a dollar 

 a bushel. At least I sold none. There was no necessity for selling them 

 for a less price. There was a prominent grower of Howell county that 

 m.ade a statement before our Society that they were growing too many 

 Elbertas south ; that there was a time when all of the prominent markets 

 were glutted with Elbertas. Now, I don't know whether that was true 

 or not, because we didn't ship any off in the direction that they did, but I 

 am one that does believe that there can be an overproduction of perish- 

 able fruit. The time was when they said you could not get too many 

 strawberries ; the more you planted, the better. Some of you have seen to 

 your sorrow that that was something that was not true, and the peach 

 is but little better than a strawberry. Men are running wild, because 

 they have had a good crop and good prices. Every man says : I am 

 going to set out so many peach trees if I can get the stock. They are 

 just going to crowd every acre into peaches; but just as sure as they 

 do it, and keep setting out one variety, the Elberta, they are going 

 tc^ have the markets glutted, just the same as you did with straw- 

 berries. You may call me an over-production crank, but that is all 

 right. 



Now with apples it is entirely different. That is something you can 

 hold. You can hold them until you get a market. It does not make any 

 difference how much of a crop you raise. 



Now, Mr. President, I am not goifig to take up any more of your 

 time. I have spread this thing out before you, and there are men from 

 further south in Missouri. There is Mr. Speakman and others engaged 

 in it more extensively than I am, and know more about it, and can tell you 

 more about it than I can. 



PEACH DISEASES AND THEIR TREATMENT. 



(By Wm. B. Hoag, Columbia, Mo.) 



To be called upon to talk on' a subject that embraces as much as this 

 does, makes one feel at a loss to know where to begin and end. As 

 culture is intensified, factors before unknown are brought to the 

 front. The trite observation that there is scarcely a limit to the 

 number of new diseases has some foundation in experience. New 



