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STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



A. Nelson, Treasurer. 



We, the committee appointed to audit the Treasurer's accounts, have examined all 

 bills and warrants and find same correct, showing balance In Treasurer's hands of Ave 



hundred and forty-seven and 53-100 ($547.53) dollars. 



John T. Snodgras.s. 

 n. f. murkat. 

 S W. Gilbert. 



The following letters were read and discussed: 



MORRLS, III., August 16, 1892 

 L. A. Goodman, Esq., Westport, Mo. : 



Dear Sir— I see In O. J. Farmer a notice of publication by your State Horticultural So- 

 ciety of its 37th annual report. If sent outside of your State would very much like you to 

 send me a copy. There are several families here — now renters — who are desirous of locat- 

 ing in Missouri, and would like information In regard to the most desirable part of your 

 State where good land can be yet secured before prices get, as they are here, "out of 

 sight." 



Will you kindly inform me what county, if any, there are in your State, that combine 

 good soil, pure water, suited to general farming and fruit raising, where no malaria or 

 serious objection to health obtains, and where land has not yet reached a price beyond or- 

 dinary means of securing it. I know of several excellent counties in your State, but the 

 land now too high-priced for our means. 



Jasper county has been highly recommended, both for fruit and grain, but I fear two 

 things; these are, that it Is too close to the dry belt and hot winds and also in a cyclone 

 route. If I am mistaken will you kindly correct me. 



There is another county— Miller— where lands are quoted very low In price, yet ex- 

 travagant claims are made as to its productions. Why is this? Is there no prairie in Miller 

 county V 



You will understand we are entirely ignorant in regard to a great portion of your State , 



and would be pleased to go and look at any part of the State you would recommend. 



An early answer would mucli oblige Yours truly. 



W. J. Foley. 



Answer — We have forty counties where you can get good, cheap 

 lands and a good home among good people. 



Jefferson City, Mo., Oct. 19,1894. 

 L. A. Goodman, Westport Mo. : 



Dear Sir— At our last meeting held in Jefferson City, October ii, we elected the follow- 

 ing officers for the years 1894-95: J. W.Edwards, president; Charles Staats, first vice- 

 president; J. A. Hunter, second vice-president; Fi'ed Buehrle, Treasurer; A. J. Davis, 

 secretary. Dates were arranged for the Society's meeting for Jefferson City as follows: 

 Second Monday in November, 1894; second Mondays in February, May, August and Novem- 

 ber, 1895. Have tried the virtue of the two methods of caring loi newly planted fruit 

 trees, namely: mulching and oft-repeated cultivation. I think the past summer has been 

 about as good for that purpose as one could wish; will give the members of our Society the 

 benefit of what little I learned at our winter meeting at Trenton if I can be able to attend. 

 ■ Could find no apples in our county this fall that I considered fit to exhibit. 



Our local Society extends a cordial invitation to you to attend our meeting when con- 

 venient for you to do so. Yours truly, A.J.Davis. 



