S76 BOARD OP AGRICULTURE. 



Mr. Hobbs: It will be necessaiy to appoint a committee to have 

 charge of this work. This committee is appointed annually, and its term 

 of service expires at this meeting. 



Professor Troop: The Committee on Experimental Orchard consists 

 of C. M. Hobbs, Jas. Troop and Mrs. Stevens. 



Mr. Burton: How long should they serve? It seems it would be well 

 if they were not all changed at once. 



Mr. Tilson: The Executive Committee could see after that better 

 than we could. 



Mr. Hobbs: The orchard is managed by Mr. Burton, who works in 

 harmony with a committee appointed by this Society, committee of three 

 persons. 



Mr. Burton: I am a little particular about the committee. I do not 

 want such a strong minded committee that I can not boss them. 



Mr. Robinson: If Mr. Burton is satisfied with present committee, I 

 move it be continued. 



Motion carried, and committee is reappointed. 



Professor Troop: My report as delegate to Pan-American Exposition 

 can be shortened up to suit the time, and I move we hear Mr. Keach now, 

 and then have election of officers before we adjourn for dinner. That 

 will give the new board a chance to have a meeting during the dinner 

 hour, and then we won't be rushed so when we come to adjourn this 

 afternoon. 



Moved and carried that we hear Mr. Keach on his subject at this 

 time. 



[No copy of this paper was obtained, but a clipping from Orange 

 Judd Farmer is inserted.] 



James L. Keach spoke on grading, packing and handling apples. He 

 said that only a. limited quantity of apples could formerly be saved, espe- 

 cially of the summer and fall varieties, owing to the glutted markets at 

 picking time, but the advent of cold storage has opened the markets of 

 the world and made practicable the handling of this fruit profitable, mak- 

 ing the apple as staple as wheat. Planting of orchards has not kept pace 

 with the increase of population, with the failure of many old orchards. 

 We are now buying most of our apples from beyond the boi'der of our 

 State, while there are thousands of acres of land in the State which 

 could be profitably planted to apples, without danger of overproduction. 

 The climate and soil of the famous Ozark mountain apple region is not 

 superior for growing apples to a large portion of our own State. 



