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solve some of these most serious questions of tlie day. The young man, 

 Earnest Field, appointed to a scholarship there last spring, left the 

 position, and one suggested by Prof. Irish was nominated to the 

 j)Osition, and received the appointment. His name is Robt. Meyer. 



The School of Horticulture at our University is still before us for 

 encouragement and help. Although the students are few, yet it is doing 

 much for the young men who are concerned in the investigation, devel- 

 opment and practical application of this science to the interests of 

 horticulture in all parts of our domain. This school has engaged the 

 attention of many of our teachers in the public schools and in this Avay 

 the interests are spreading rapidly. We can alreadj^ count by the 

 hundreds the teachers who are taking up this in their school work. 



This School of Horticulture should have the hearty support of 

 every person who wants to see our state prosper in its every advantage. 

 The young men of the state can make no mistake in taking any one of 

 the course outlined at Columbia. 



Our sister state societies are always, and we hope always will be, 

 coworkers in this common cause of the upbuilding of horticulture. We 

 gladly reciprocate and fraternize with them all, and find this means of 

 securing information and facts one of the best we have. We always 

 gladly welcome comers from all our societies and find them of great 

 assistance in the discussion of all the important features of horticulture. 

 Together the state societies of Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Arkansas and 

 Missouri should be a power wielding for good of the horticulturists. 



The meeting of the American Pomological Society at Philadel- 

 phia last September was a notable gathering of nearly all the fruit 

 growing states of the union. Among all these state organizations we 

 were glad to find that Missouri was among those at the top. The ad- 

 vantages of Missouri, the energj' of her fruit men, the wonderful devel- 

 opment of the orcharding of the west, were acknowledged by very many 

 at this meeting. Many valuable papers and addresses were presented and 

 many practical ideas v/ere given. One, especially, by Mr. Hale, of 

 Georgia, concerning his large peach orchards in that state. It seems 

 that the injury to their peach trees was as severe as the worst of ours. 

 In many cases the bark was burstod, and just what to do. was ihoir 



