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Mr. Blake thinks a committee should be appointed to visit the 

 railroad officials and have a talk with them about the issuing of such 

 a i)amphlet. 



Mr. Murray has found the railroads always ready to do the right 

 thing, whenever it is shown them that it will be to their advantage to 

 do so, and that it will help develop the business in a certain line. 



Mr. Nelson says the same, and says all that it is necessary to do 

 is to show them how giving a rate will foster the fruit business. 



The following were appointed a committee : Messrs. Blake, Gil- 

 bert, Williams, Murray, Nelson. 



The following letter was read : 



Villa Kidge, 111., May 21, 1892. 

 L. A.. GooDMAX, Westport, Mo.: 



Dear Sir— Yours of 18th inst. inquiring about express rates to Chicago at 

 hand. They charge us $1.50 per 100 pounds, large or small lots, but we don't 

 patronize them any. We ship everything by freight; if it is perishable we 

 use the refrigerator cars, and that coats us about 13c per 24-qt. crates; that in- 

 cludes ice and all expenses of loading and unloading. Our Association saves us 

 $20,000 a year and lots of worry and trouble. Grapes and peaches cost us 2^c per 

 basket ; J-bu. boxes, 'Sic ; 1-bu. boxes, 93 each. We have a 14c per 100 pound rate 

 to Chicago on a .32-hour time, and 43c on a 16 hour time, fruit-train cars. 



Respectfully. Geo. W . Endicott. 



P. S. — Don't monkey with express companies. 



Our berry crop is about half gone ; prices good ; 40 per cent of a crop, but 

 there is money in it. 



We will have a fine peach crop here this year if they don't all rot. Elberta, 

 Ede, May Beauty, Reeves, Christina and Thnrber are very tine. There is quite 

 a number of them stung, but no eggs have hatched into worms, or not one in 20 

 has. Can't spray anything, for it rains three times a day and all night . Hope you 

 are having a good crop on your Ozark farm. Endicott. 



Mr. Murray — When our railroads will give us such rates as these,, 

 you will find South Missouri till up as rapidly as ever did Kansas, and 

 not only South Missouri, but all parts of Missouri where cheap lands 

 can be had. 



Mr. Goodman — It certainly pays the railroads in more ways than 

 one to foster this fruit business here in Missouri where we have more 

 fruit land than any other State. It is only a question of transporta- 

 tion and handling of our fruits that keeps our people from planting 

 hundreds of thousands of acres of orchards, and thousands of people 

 coming here from the cold states of the north to grow fraits. Our 

 railroads are beginning to see this, and are willing to meet us fairly 

 when we show them the advantages to be gained by doing so. 



The following resolutions were presented: 



To the Hoard of Curators of the Missouri University : 



The Missouri Horticultural Society, in convention assembled, would most 

 respectfully ask your honorable body to set apart a definite sum of money for the 

 use of the experiment work in the line of fruits— such a sum as will enable the 



