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MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The next meeting of this society will be held at Grand Rapids, 

 Mich., in September, and we should also be represented there. I am 

 holding in the cold stdrage some five or six barrels of apples consisting 

 of a number of varieties, which I expect to hold for that meeting. We 

 must also make a business of collecting specimens this summer, and 

 placing in cold storage for that meeting all the fine varieties and speci- 

 mens that can be had, and then finally make a grand show at that 

 time. 



I believe, in fact I know, that the various fruit displays have been 

 more the means of calling attention to our State as a frait growing dis- 

 trict than have all other causes combined. It has cost only a few 

 hundreds of dollars, while the other means have cost many thousands 

 and with not half as good results. Our experience, our work, our re- 

 sults, our fruits, have certainly been a powerful factor in this grand 

 horticultural work. 



FINANCIAL. 



The following is the amount expended by the Secretary for print- 

 ing, postage on reports, other expenses : 



Warrant No. 42, expenses of winter meeting 



' "43, expenses at New Orleans, Jefferson City, postage 



44, expenses on reports, express and postage on reports. . 



45, binding reports, postage on 200, express and freight. . . 



4G, postage on reports, 200, circulars and postage June 

 meeting 



34 and 36, printing State reports 



P17 50 



77 35 

 101 SO 

 218 78 



428 64 



Nearly all the above expense is with printing, binding and sending 

 out the reports, and in preparing the report for the printer. It* being 

 necessary for me to make three or four trips down and then to remain 

 there for three weeks reading the proof. 



The letter postage, postal cards, circulars, etc., are getting to be 

 quite an item in our account. I find more and more, that much work 

 can be done and has to be done by letter writing. Our work is con- 

 tinually growing and coming where I would like to see it, to a point 

 where one man is kept busy all his time. 



All we want in this is the money to do the work and the work will 

 be done. 



