COUNTY REPORTS. 287 



Before Holt county had these plants tomatoes and sugar corn did 

 not bring- any revenue outside of the county. Kow they bring thou- 

 sands of dollars from other states, besides keeping at home many 

 thousand dollars that we used to send to other states for these same 

 ^oods. 



This also gives employment to many of our home citizens. These 

 canned goods last year were considered by all that handled them as 

 good as any canned east or anywhere. This shows that the soil of 

 Missouri will i)roduce as good quality of sugar corn and tomatoes as 

 any other state. Then why not have more of these plants in our own 

 state, and give employment to our people and bring in money in place 

 of sending it out. We can raise as many bushels to the acre with the 

 •same or less labor as any other state. 



As you will see above, they closed on the 29th of October this 

 jear — last year canning on the lOth. On the 7th of November my 

 wife brought in a handful of beautiful red roses she gathered in the 

 jard. The peach, apple and cherry leaves on the 7th of November 

 were all green and fresh. 



I am sorry I can't send you some nice apples. I don't know of 

 «,ny in this neighborhood that would do. 



I am very sorry I can't be with you at Carthage, knowing you will 



have, as usual, a good meeting. 



Yery respectfully, 



Wm. Brodbeck. 



HOWARD COU:t^TY. 



Glasgow, Mo., December 1, 1892. 

 Mr. L. A. Goodman, Sec'y Missouri Horticultural Society, Westport, Mo.: 



Dear Sir — In reply to yours asking for a description of this part 

 of the State, viz., Glasgow, Howard county, Missouri, I will only say a 

 few words, and if any one will take the trouble of coming here to see 

 for themselves, they will verify what I say. 



We have here, in the immediate vicinity of Glasgow, a soil that is 

 unexcelled for the growing of all kinds of fruit and vegetables, or any- 

 thing else, being of the loess formation along the Missouri river. It is 

 a sandy loam, with a porous subsoil, inexhaustible in fertility, never 

 too wet or too dry to bring a crop. When well cultivated, it never 

 lacks for moisture. There is no better soil in the State for gardening 

 and fruit-growing. Improved farms can be bought at from $15 to 860 

 per acre. 



