REPORT OF BATES COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 137 



REPORT OF BATES COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



BY HENRY SPEER, SECRETARY, BUTLER, MO. 



WITH SOME OF THE PAPERS PvEAD. 



Butler, Mo., June 9, 18S5. 

 L. A. Goodman^ Secretary State Horticultural Society: 



Dear Sir : I take pleasure in reporting to yon that our society is 

 in a reasonably prosperous condition. Owing to the severe winter and 

 bad state of the roads some of our winter meetings failed, but we have 

 had some good meetings and have had interesting papers and discus- 

 sions on the following subjects in the last six months : 



Paper on '' Round Headed Borer," by J. B. Innis. 



Paper on "Social Intluence of Our Horticultural Societies,'' by .J. 

 W. Hall. 



Paper on " Raising Vegetables for Home Use," by Henry Speer. 



Paper on "How to Have Strawberries for the Family," by C. I.- 

 Robards. 



Paper on "The Codling Moth." by J. B. Innis. 



Paper on "The Raspberry — Its Cultivation," by E. P. Henry. 



Our members number forty-five, about half of them being good, 

 active members. The society promises to be useful in the future. We 

 hold summer meetings around among the members pic-nic style, and 

 have a good time. 



