282 State Horticultural Society. 



^'They also recognize in certain native timber growths the adapta- 

 bility of the soil for fruit gro^^^[ng. A soil which produces black wal- 

 nut, sugar tree, wild cherry, pawpaw, red and white oak, hickory and 

 elm, is marked out by nature for fruit raising. Then, instead of hav- 

 ing to haul iron filings miles and miles to put around their trees, as the 

 orchardists of other sections have had to do, the fruit growers there will 

 find the exact elements already existent in the soil. I have been en- 

 gaged for three weeks past in collecting specimens from the old orchard 

 in that neighborhood, which I will display at the coming meeting of 

 the State Horticultural Society at Princeton. I expect to open the 

 eyes of some of the fruit men, too, for this region at the east end of the 

 Ozark range has been almost neglected by fruit growers. In my opinion 

 it will produce almost any kind of fruit, but for pears and strawberries 

 the conditions are almost ideal. They fell me that strawberries from 

 that section have already a reputation on the St. Louis market because 

 of their fine color and flavor, but nobody has gone into the fruit raising- 

 business on an extensive scale, for reasons that can scarcely be com- 

 prehended by the experienced fruit grower." 



W. G. Gano moved that the location of the next summer and mu- 

 ter meetings be referred to the executive committee. Carried. 



I*^. F. Murray said that railroads were beginning to see the ad- 

 vantage of having more fruit planted along their lines, and he thought 

 we should have more consideration when we asked for reduced rates. 

 Some of the railroads now offer half rates when the meeting is held on 

 their lines. 



Maj. Holsinger gave the society an earnest invitation to attend the 

 meeting of the Kansas society at Topeka during the holidays. 



To the Members of the Missouri State Horticultural Society, Kansas 



City, Missouri: 



Gentlemen: — Swift and Company desire to submit to you a few 

 facts in connection with fertilizers. 



In the last few years we have developed a trade on our packing 

 house fertilizers in Missouri and eastern Kansas of approximately two 

 thousand tons per year. Probably three-fourths if this amount is ap- 



