COUNTY REPORTS. 285 



The school facilities are as g^ood as can be found in the Union. 

 Springfield has ten large public school buildings, and is erecting a high 

 school house to cost ,*(35,000. Besides, there are Drury college and 

 Loretto academy and two business schools. The various districts 

 throughout the county have school from six to eight months during 

 the year. The society of the county is good, being settled from all 

 parts of the country. ' 



Fruits of all kinds (with some few exceptions) can be grown here 

 in their greatest perfection. Thousands of acres are now in bearing, 

 and yet each year but increases the amount that is being set. In 

 standard fruits, the apple is planted more largely than anything else. 

 In small fruits, the stawberry and blackberry grow to the greatest per- 

 fection. The raspberry does not do so well. The cereals as well as 

 fruit are largely grown in Greene county. The wheat crop never fails, 

 and the quality is of the very best. Corn and oats are generally a sure 

 crop, and are largely grown. We have both the black and mulatto 

 soil, all underlaid with a red porous subsoil. Improved farms can be 

 bought for from $20 to $50 per acre. Good fruit land, unimproved, $5 

 to $10 per acre. Come and look at Greene county. 



G. W. Hopkins. 



HOLT COUNTY. 



Oregon, Mo., November, 1892. 

 L. A. Goodman, Secretary : 



Dear Sir — In Colman's Eural World of November 20, I see a 

 call from you for a paper on some subject of our choice. I will try 

 and comply with your request as best 1 can. 



FAVORED holt COUNTY. 



Every citizen of Holt county knows that Holt county and Mis- 

 souri escape many of the cold waves and blizzards that pass east, 

 north, west and even south of us in the early fall and late spring. On 

 the 12th of October they had a snow-storm in Colorado — close to the 

 Kansas line — that froze stock and their herders to death ; in Nebraska 

 a snow storm, about the middle of October, to the depth of two inches ; 

 in the southern part of Ohio, on the 8th of October, they had a snow, 

 and everything was killed by frost ; while here in Holt county every- 

 thing was green, and canning tomatoes on the 29th of October. 



