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came to Missouri for lier supply. In a year or two there will be no 

 room for Missouri apples in Kansas. In Denver I saw the most beau- 

 tiful fruit, grown in Colorado without irrigation. They will supply 

 their own markets and those contiguous. Nine miles below Denver 

 we saw fine fruit grown without a drop of irrigation. The apples of 

 Colorado are fully equal to those of Missouri. We must look this 

 thing in the face. I believe the business will fail, and then become a 

 success to some after many have left it. 



I was in the grape boom and failed to make a success. I think we 

 are planting too many Ben Davis; let us plant more varieties such as 

 Willow Twig and Jonathan. 



Dr. Hensley — My friend speaks of the horse business being over- 

 done. How long since horses could be sold for $105,000? 



Mr. Simpson — I said hops. 



Dr. Hensley — I was raised in Kentucky where horses grow. Twenty 

 years ago they said the horse business would be overdone, but the men 

 who grow fine horses are getting there. As to the chicken business, I 

 paid 810 for a rooster and a hen not long since : is that over-production ? 

 It is just so all along the line those who produce a superior article get 

 good prices. They raise cattle where you can't raise anything else. 

 There is but a little part of this country where you can raise apples. 



J. C. Evans — The question of transportation is what was in the 

 way of Mr. Simpson when he failed to make the grapes pay ; there were 

 plenty of people to eat his grapes if they had been taken to them cheaply 

 enough. 



Mr. Hartzell — We need not look very far from home to get our 

 apples done up if we give them to the children. I paid one man recently 

 $80 for the apples that grew on one tree in one year; this was near St. 

 Joseph. Apples are now selling for four dollars a bushel in Texas. 



The gentleman said we run eYerything into the ground ; there is 

 one thing we don't run into the ground far enough and that is the plow. 



Let us raise more apples. 



Mr. Tippen — I think we should be very considerate in this matter. 



In regard to the cattle business : the time is not far in the future 

 when prices will return to a paying basis : cattle are forced upon the 

 market by the breaking up of the western plains. 



I have my misgivings upon the question of transportation. I plant 

 in the hope that I will be able to find a market for my fruit without 

 giving it all to the transportation companies. The fruitgrower upon 

 an inland line with no competition had just as well get the consent of 

 Ms mind to take what he can get. This condition may not always last. 



