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been done here. We will be satisfied with the result, and be better 

 pleased when we return to our homes. Our State is growing so rapidly 

 that we must continually push ahead with our labors or be left behind. 

 And so it is our pleasure and desire to ever keep in advance of our 

 cause and be leaders rather than followers. 



Missouri will take no backward step in spite of the discourage- 

 ments, while we have the good honest men all over the State working 

 hand in hand. A united people in our united Society, and with one 

 end in view, the upbuilding of the cause of h orticulture, can see no 

 such thing as failure in our cause or in our Society. 



Standing by each other firm and true, we shall see greater things 

 in store for us than we now dream of. To this end let us work, and to 

 this successful end it will be the^mbition of your Secretary to follow 

 faithfully. L. A. Goodman, Sec'y. 



DISCUSSION. 



President Evans — Members of this Society have been the means 

 of locating hundreds of the best class of people the country affords, 

 the horticulturists, and we are continually answering questions for 

 them. 



He thinks if the Experiment Station ever takes the stand it should 

 that .there must be some line of policy for it to follow and some plan 

 of work laid down. He thinks the college should be separated from 

 the University, and the sooner the better. The college is simply a 

 farce the way it is conducted, and there is ro reason why over $30,000 

 per year should be spent for so little to show for it. We hope that 

 the next Assembly will force a separation and a different location. 



Mr. Murray heartily indorses all that has been said, both by the 

 Secretary and the President, and hopes to see the daj soon come when 

 the Agricultural College will get what belongs to it. 



Mr. Williams — The main trouble with the Experiment Station is 

 that they have neither heart nor interest in the matter, and the sooner 

 the whole matter is in the hands of the State Board of Agriculture 

 and the Department of Horticulture under the Horticultural Society, 

 the better. 



Prof. Duffey says a good word for the Horticultural report. He 

 has ordered them for all his boys, and thinks them valuable. 



Secretary reports that he has had calls for them from all parts of 

 the country, and feels much elated to have them called for by the col- 

 leges and Experiment Stations of the land. 



