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experimenter to report definite results for the guidance of the horticulturists of 

 the State, and to enter upon a line of experiments with sufficient money to assure 

 him that he will be enabled to complete those experiments. 

 Carried. 



'To ihe State Board of Agriculture of Missouri : 



The Missouri Horticultural Society, in convention assembled, would most 

 respectfully ask your honorable body, in making your annual examination into the 

 management of the Agricultural College and Experiment Station, to report what 

 final results have been secured by such experiments, especially in the line of fruit- 

 growing, and also the line of experiments to be followed in the Department of 

 Horticulture in the future, and let us hear. 



Carried. 



DISCUSSION OF THE EXPERIMENT STATION. 



Prof. Duffey wishes this Society would memorialize the Board of 

 Curators that they would set apart a certain fund in the Horticultural 

 Department for experimental work, so that some plan of action can be 

 followed that will be of credit to the State, and not be the laughing 

 ■stock of other stations, and of the best fruit men of our State. 



Prof. Purintou says he will mention the matter to the President of 

 the University, and thinks it can be so arranged. 



Mr. Blake has no confidence in any of their promises, and thinks 

 it a downright shame that this disgrace to oar State should be allowed 

 to longer go on in its old way. He could wish Dr. Porter here, and 

 would like to ask him if the college farm is a foxhunting ground, and 

 if it would not be a good plan to dispose of the fox-hounds on the 

 farm and prevent hunting on the farm in the future. 



Prof. Duffey thinks that you might just as well graft apple on 

 sycamore as to graft the Agricultural College on the University; both 

 wQl be failures. 



ISo agricultural college can be a success until you put men practi- 

 cal in both agriculture aud horticulture at the head of the depart- 

 ments. The College and the Experiment Station will both be failures 

 as long as they are at Columbia, or are connected with the University. 



