secretary's budget. 449 



Economic horticulture offers a more substantial reward in her 

 golden fruits. While those who have a natural adaptability to the 

 calling will usually succeed best, there are many who follow horticul- 

 ture for the living they find therein. 



In either case, to best husband the result of our toils, we must 

 know how and when to harvest our crops and what disposition to make 

 of them afterwards in order to reach the highest fruition of our labors. 

 I have now briefly outlined the course of study which I have fol- 

 lowed as a teacher of horticulture. 



Each process, in the progress of the course, has been illustrated as 

 fully as it was possible to do by a practical application of the lessons 

 taught; yet we have labored under the great difiiculties, which might 

 naturallj'^ be expected, in inaugurating a new department in an insti- 

 tuion of the character of the one I have the honor of representing. 



It is quite probable that but few of the students whom I have 

 taught will follow horticulture as a pursuit, yet I have tried to impress 

 them with the thought that, in the years to come, they may look back 

 to the simple lessons they are now receiving with pleasure, if not with 

 absolute profit; for, after all, we recognize and admire the person as 

 fulfilling, to the highest degree, our ideas of a useful and well developed 

 man or woman who has a practical knowledge of what we term every 

 day affairs. — W. H. Rag an, Dupaw University, Greencastle, Ind. 



A MISSOURI FRUIT SHOW. 



The importance of this undertaking, as suggested in previous issues, 

 is enhanced the more one thinks and talks about it. The Missouri 

 Horticultural Society, at its annual meeting last week in Warrensburg 

 considered it and thought very favorably of it. We could not find a 

 member present that was not in favor of the effort, and all were of the 

 opinion that it should not only be attempted, but that every means 

 should be employed to insure its success. Eaough is now known of 

 the value of cold storage to justify us in saying that many of our early 

 and even perishable fruits can be so preserved as to show them along 

 with the later and hardier varieties. 



It has been suggested that not only the fruits but vegetables also, 

 and the cereal grains and their products as well, should be exhibited, 

 and that possibly with all these there might be combined a flower 

 show. With the fruits of the earth we are concerned, because in sug- 

 gesting the effort our aim and desire was to demonstrate to the world 

 what Missouri can do and is doing to-day. Thousands of people at a 

 distance, who have never seen Missouri's claims in these regards pre- 

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