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special, even, regular, systematic, honest packing, and those who meet 

 these requirements are the ones who will make the money out of their 

 fruits and the others will not. Beginning with the strawberry, it pays 

 to have the berries run even in the boxes; it pays to have them well 

 picked ; it pays to have clean boxes ; it pays to handle them carefully, 

 and it pays to have one variety in a crate. The same points are urged 

 in regard to the raspberry, the blackberry, the grape, the plum and the 

 cherry. With the peach, the pear and the apple it pays best to make 

 three grades : Fancy, No. 1 and No. 2. All fancy fruit should be able 

 to go on the fruit-stands. All No. 1 should be strictly No. 1 all through 

 the packages. Fruits that run even in size are the ones that always 

 bring the most money. 



It is astonishing how soon one will make a reputation for good 

 packing if he is honest in his endeavor, and has any large quantity of 

 fruit to handle, and it is equally surprising how soon people will shun 

 a "brand" if they have been fooled a few times. Good, honest pack- 

 ing in good clean, full size packages, will always pay the fruit-grower. 



THE WORLD OUR MARKET. 



In the discussion of this topic, the " Fruits of the Ozarks," we 

 may be sure, that if we but grow the fruits of the Ozarks, we will make 

 a market for the best fruits that grow on top of the earth, and this 

 market will not be a short-lived one, but one that will grow and grow, 

 and increase in volume like the beautiful spring brook which rushes 

 onward to the full river and it to the larger, until all the world knows 

 of the majestic river and its name, and power and its capacity. I shall 

 expect to see this southern land occupy just such a high position with 

 its apples, and peaches, and pears, and grapes, as Oregon with its 

 prunes, as Florida with its oranges, as California with its raisins, as the 

 Newtown pippin has in New York, as the Hhode Island Greening does 

 in Michigan, or as the Spitzenberg in New England. Onward and up- 

 ward will be our motto, and success is assured — L. A. Goodman, in 

 Farmer and Fruitman. 



Thursday, June 6 — 9 a. m. 



Secretary's Report of the Fruit Crop, June 18, 1895. 



Since our meeting last winter we have had many things to en. 

 courage us in our work as fruit-growers and developers of our lands 

 as well as beautifiers of them. SDme strange things hav.e happened ; 



