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reports of the Society, and ask them to first read and reread each one ot 

 Secretary ^Goodman's reports, next the discussions, resolutions and able articles- 

 contained therein, in the order named. Then get them to join the Society and 

 promise to vote for the appropriation of $10,000 as above set forth. Write articles 

 to your country papers on this subject and get them to publish choice articles from 

 the annual reports bearing on the subject. By a united and systematic effort on 

 this line, in the language of Sam Jones, you will ' 'get there . " 



Members of the Horticultural Society of Missouri, this is the way to get the 

 appropriation, and farmers and citizens of Missouri, it will be the best investment 

 you ever made, and will put grand old Missouri where she should be, the first fruit 

 State in the Union. Henry Strother. 



Mr. L. a. Goodman, Secretary, Westport, Mo.: 



Dear Sir — Following up the course suggested inj my rrticle on "Missouri 

 Fruit-growing and How It May Be Encouraged," which appeared in the St. Louis 

 Republic of August 13, 1892, and which has been extensively copied by many 

 other papers throughout the State, including the farmer's best friend, Colman's 

 Rural World, I would now suggest that our State Horticultural Society, at it& 

 annual meeting in December, should pass a set of stirring resolutions to be pre- 

 sented to the next Legislature, demanding of that body an appropriation of at least 

 $10,000 per annum for the benefit of the Society. The resolutions should show 

 briefly what this Society has done for the State in its cramped and crippled con- 

 dition, and what it greatly needs in order to be of very much greater benefit to the 

 State at large. It needs 10,000 copies per year of its printed reports, all bound in 

 cloth so they will be preserved ; it needs bulletins published and distributed from 

 time to time, as occasion requires, giving information needed at once, and also con- 

 taining entomological notes ; it needs to employ L. A. Goodman and require him 

 to go into each county in the State and organize local Horticultural Societies, hold 

 meetings and institutes and instruct the people in the arts of horticulture, and 

 teach them the true science of fruit-growing. This Society should at the same 

 time appoint a committee, composed of one or more of the best and most influential 

 of the wide-awake successful fruit-growers of each county, to take printed sets of 

 the said resolutions to the best farmers and business men and largest tax-payers of 

 their respective counties and get their signatures to same, asking the Legislature 

 to make said appropriation, and have these committeemen meet the officers of the 

 State Horticultural Society at the capital on a day fixed for that purpose, and then 

 at the proper time and in the proper way, present these resolutions and petitions 

 to the Legislature severally and collectively, and back them up by well-directed 

 personal work, keeping some of the committee constantly on hand until the appro- 

 priation is made and the bill is signed by the Governor. 



I had written the foregoing before receiving the "programme " of the thirty- 

 fifth annual meeting of this Society, by which I see that "The Work of the Society" 

 is the topic assigned me, and as the foregoing is directly in line with my subject, 

 and the time limit of 15 minutes is not out, I will briefly touch upon a few other 

 points. 



Should the Legislature grant the appropriation asked for, I would suggest 

 that the executive committee be at once called together to lay out the work to be 

 done until the next meeting of this Society, and employ the proper parties to do 

 this work and put them at it, so that no time may be lost. This Society should 

 issue a smaU immigration pamphlet of many thousands of copies, to be distributed 

 by our worthy President and his assistants at the World's Fair to all parties desir- 



