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be grown in Missouri as abundantly, and with as good or better returns 

 as in any State in the Union. The people of other States do not know 

 thi^j, and not knowing do not appreciate it when told. Thousands of 

 men pass through Missouri every year with their wives and families 

 and the wealth they have acqaired and settle in other and less favored 

 States because they know nothing of this State.. They know nothing 

 of our productive lands, of our immense orchards, our wheat and corn, 

 our cattle and sheep, our colleges and schools, our churches, and social 

 and domestic surroundings, and the peace and plenty which permeate 

 our rich and noble State, because it has not been advertised in every 

 paper, at every railroad station and road side inn, and on the granite 

 hillsides of their own States; because their country has not been de- 

 luged with highly colored pictures and fairly-worded pamphlets de- 

 scribing it as it has of the States and Territories beyond ; therefore they 

 go farther and do not fare as well as they would if the}^ knew some- 

 thing which we could tell them of Missouri. Such ignorance is not 

 bliss, neither is it desirable or profitable. 



The great St. Louis fair has done much to advertise St. Louis, for 

 many have attended it from a distance, either as exhibitors or sight- 

 seers, who have carried away with them impressions of i(s magnificence 

 and of the extent of its manufactures and commerce. But whilst 

 these in a measure must convey an idea of the surrounding country 

 and the i^roductiveness of the land to sustain such a city it does so 

 only in part, and a very small part at that. True, when we make a 

 show of grandly improved stock it conveys an idea of our advanced 

 farming, but the exhibits are open to the world, and the stock one sees 

 is as likely to be from Maine or Kansas as from Missouri. A.nd what 

 is true in that regard of stock is equally true of nearly everything 

 shown at the fair. 



We want something that shall show the capacity of our orchards 

 and the quality of our soil as a State ; something that shall command 

 the attention and the admiration of other States and of other peoples 

 far and near, that shall convince them that Missouri is worthy of atten- 

 tion and deserving of more than a passing notice, that shall impress 

 them in such a way as to compel them to cry for more ; then will they 

 discover, what many thousands ought to have known years ago, that 

 this is one of the grandest States in the union, and the one above all 

 others in which they can settle to advantage both to themselves and 

 their children after them. 



There are many ways of doing this and in a council of prominent 

 men there would develop a great variety of opinions as to which is the 

 best. We are just now presenting an idea for the consideration of the 



