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Taking 130 cars for an estimate of this season's crop, $1.06 per crate 

 net would mean an approximate profit of forty-six cents per crate for the 

 grower. Counting 100 crates to the acre at forty-six cents, would mean 

 $46 per acre. Who can make that much per acre growing wheat and 

 corn? A profit of forty-six cents per crate would mean a profit of 

 $35,880 to the growers and $28,080 to the pickers, much of which has 

 been left with our merchants and other business men. Does that look 

 ruinous ? It beats last year's crop by about fifty per cent. Considering 

 the crop and its condition, the berry growers of Sarcoxie can. consider 

 themselves fortunate; for they have realized, in many instances far more 

 than their berries were actually worth. Less berries and better ones 

 should be their motto for the future. 



SECRETAEY'S EEPORT. 



Members and friends of Horticulture: 



I thought on my trip down here from Kansas City it could hardly 

 be possible to have a more beautiful country than the rolling prairies, 

 the little wooded copse and the strips of timber along the streams and 

 around the springs. I looked farther and beautiful fields of meadow, 

 of wheat, of corn, of oats, and of pasture filled with thousands of cattle, 

 of horses, of mules, of hogs, of sheep, and it seemed as if this great west 

 could feed the world. I then, in imagination, looked into the many 

 bappy homes surrounded with neither poverty nor wealth, but with 

 plenty, plenty of work to keep men busy, plenty of bfeauty to make men 

 happy, plenty to eat, to wear, to enjoy, plenty of time to be called his 

 own, and I thought if it were only possible for these men to appreciate 

 the position they occupy, their freedom from care and worry like the 

 city merchant, or manufacturer, or trader, or railroad man, or even the 

 ia^vyers and doctors, that if any people in all this great west should be 

 happy and enlightened, and progressive and patriotic, these were the 

 people. Methought myself a king before whom all this grandure of 

 hills and valleys, prairie and timber, houses and lands, fields and flocks, 

 gardens and orcliards, were spread out to enjoy. I saw beyond all this 



