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tions, for if success could follow such careless and unbusiness-like 

 methods the fruit business would be of no profit at all. 



The fruit of the State will this year bring more money than ever 

 known in our history. The failure in many parts of the country by 

 the frosts will givo Missouri such an advantage as to prices for her 

 vast product that ten millions of dollars will fail to cover its value. 

 Thirty thousand people are now growing fruits or are directly inter- 

 ested in the cause of horticulture in this State, and this means 150,000 

 persons dependent upon it for their support. This means the employ- 

 ment of 150,000 women, girls and boys in the gathering, marketing and 

 handling of our berry, peach, apple and other fruit crops. 



When will the fruit grower learn to take the same business-like 

 view of the orchard and berry plantations that other men take of 

 theirs ? Giving it the same care and attention, work and study, watch- 

 ing and waiting, push and vim, persistence and enthusiasm? Failures 

 will come. Hail and snow, frost and heat, rain and drouth, sunshine 

 and cloud, insect and rusts, sickness and death, and yet we are 

 astonished when they come to us and are angry. We expect such 

 things to happen, and men think that we will be the sufferers. We are 

 sure that death is abroad and know that all things will die, yet wonder 

 that it should happen to its. Too many think that all men will die» 

 but that they themselves are immortal; they know that disaster will 

 come to men, but do not expect it to themselves. 



And now, friends, let us be in earnest. Let not little things dis- 

 appoint or discourage us, but with the best knowledge that we can 

 obtain let us do our best, assured that success will crown our efforts. 



This little city and its surrounding hills will blossom as the roses. 

 Orchards and vines and small fruits will dot the hills and valleys about 

 here so beautifully that a man visiting this country in five years will 

 wonder why he did not own one of these beautiful homes. To this 

 end let us work and to this end we will be sure to succeed. Watch 

 and wait and work. L. A. Goodman, Sec'y. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



"We, the committee appointed to examine and audit the Secretary's report, beg to rec- 

 ommend that an appropriation be made Miss Murtfeldt, our entomologist, of one hundred 

 dollars. While we do not consider this full payment for her most valuable services, we 

 hope she will accept it as an expression of our feeling and good intentions, and we further 

 hope our treasury will be so replenished that this may be handsomely Increased in the near 

 future. AVe also recommend the expenditure of sufficient money to malce our Horticultural 

 display at St. Louis second to none in the land, as we feel and know that jNIlssourl can make 

 such a display. 



We further recommend that the Secrerary's report be approved and accepted as a 

 whole John T. Snodgrass, 



S. I Haseltine, 

 A Ambrose. 



