SUMMER MEETING Ar BUTLER. 59" 



THE BEST APPLES FOR MISSOURI. 



BY PHIL PFEIFFER. 



Sedalia, Mo., May 29, 1885. 

 Mr. L. A. Goodman., Westport^ Mo.: 



Dear Sir — In response to your remark to write something for the 

 meeting of our Society, I would say : 



Of apples, the most important fruit of Missouri, I think we should 

 still plant more winter apples to enable our State to get its proper 

 share of apples ; the Southern States will always have to procure from 

 the Northern and Middle States. Of the Summer, and even Fall ap- 

 ples, with the exception of the new Yellow Transparent and the 

 Maiden Blush, are already, in proportion to the amount of Winter 

 varieties, too many planted, and no better proof for this fact can be 

 brought than their respective market values. 



I have never seen a Ben Davis sold for twenty cents a bushel here» 

 but have many times seen Summer and Fall apples, with the exception 

 of Maiden Blush, Orange or BelMower and Jonathan, sold at that 

 price. Why, then, do the farmers still plant more Summer and Fall 

 apples than they need for their own supply? Why do they not buy 

 their fruit trees where they may 'expect to be honestly treated, from 

 their nearest Nursery ? I am confident, though acknowledging that 

 the Tree-peddler stimulates the planting -cf trees and shrubs, thus 

 helping to beautify the country in general, that the majority of the 

 thousands of worthless apple trees that are growing, a burden rather 

 than a benefit to the hard working farmer in our State, nome from the 

 deceiving tree agent. It is a pity to see an orchard with nice looking 

 trees that are mostly poor varieties, being a constant loss and disap- 

 pointment, and a wise man is he who takes the ax and clears out such 

 frauds. 



I say the apple is the prominent fruit for the farmer in Missouri,, 

 and we see it again this season, as all the reports to the Secretaiy will 

 show. 



Near a good market, the Yellow Transparent, for its extreme 

 earliness, will be still very profitable; also will the Maiden Blush, too 

 well known to give a description of it. Of most all the other Summer 



