SUMMER MEETING. It 



into a man or woman. After awhile they will be wondering what aila 

 their orchard. 



We are often asked what is the best crop to grow in an orchard^ 

 and I think the very best answer we can give, is apples. There is but 

 one thing that may be profitably planted in an orchard after it has come 

 to a bearing age, and that is stock peas, and it remains to be tested 

 wheter they will be profitable anywhere in the State except in the red 

 lands, but they have been fairly well tried here in the Ozarks, and are 

 proving a great success. They may be drilled in and cultivated, or 

 sown broadcast and turned under or cut for hay at the proper time, or 

 be allowed to mature and be picked for seed and other purposes, or 

 fed down to hogs, and in any case the land seems to have been equally 

 benefitted and more elements of fertility restored to it than could be 

 obtained from clover or any other crop in the same time or with any 

 fertilizer at the same cost. The mechanical action of the roots seems 

 to have the power to make the land lively and fertile. We are often 

 asked, will not this business of fruit growing be overdone ? We answer 

 emphatically no. There are so many thousand of these trees that 

 have been and are being planted that will never come to a profitable 

 bearing age, and so many who have planted trees and cared for them 

 for a few years will become discouraged and say, "I can't afford to 

 cultivate and prune and spray and look for borers and all these things. 

 I have planted the trees and tended to them till they are old 

 enough to bear, and I can't do any more." This class of fruit-growers 

 will never glut the markets of the world with good fruit, but they will 

 tend to keep up the nurseries and give the progressive orchardist an 

 open market for all his products. When I was a boy and. my father 

 was planting trees in Jackson county, some people said the business 

 would be overdone in a short time, and he would have to cut his trees 

 down. From that time to the present the market for our orchard pro- 

 ducts has gradually grown better and larger, and now it is easier to 

 sell a thousand barrels than it was then to sell a bushel. There is an 

 old but quite true saying that no one is so far from market as he who 

 has nothing to sell. 



Tuesday, Jqxw 4—2 p. m. 



After the assembling of the members the President took up the 

 first matter on the program and called for a paper by J. Kirchgraber. 



