THE WABASH RAILROAD. 



Beginning at Kansas City, passes through some of the richest river 

 bottoms and the grandest prairies of the state, productive in everything 

 that goes to make a country valuable. Horses, cattle, mules, sheep, 

 hog's, grains and grasses as well as fruits on the hills are all grown in 

 quantities. These counties are rich, well settled and yet only a very 

 small portion of it is in productive orcharding. For good openings to 

 the fruit growler these counties offer the lands adapted for the purpose 

 and many good markets for the use of the products by the large cities, 

 towns and villages where there is not fruit enough grown to supply the 

 home demand. These counties are Jackson, Clay, Eay, Carroll, Chan- 

 ton, Livingston, Daviess, Randolph, Boone, Audrain, Montgomery, War- 

 ren. St. Charles, St. Louis, Macon, Adair, Schuyler. To give the ad- 

 vantages of each would be too much for this outline and we only wish to 

 add that you will find thousands of locations for profitable fruit growing 

 along this line, and suitable soil, the right climate for the growing of 

 apples in a commercial Avay. There are plenty of valleys to draw off the 

 cold air and protect the fruit from destruction by late frost in spring or 

 severe cold of winter. 



There may be hills in our state — which are not fit for fruit tree 

 growth, nor fit for any agricultural or horticultural purposes whatever, 

 but what I say and what I know is that the Missouri hills bordering on 

 the running waters of the rivers and their tributaries are tlie kind of hills 

 for tree growth and the natural field for the orchardist. They afford 

 a high, dry, healthy location for the home of the husbandman and his 

 family, and for the production of good, sound and perfect fruit, may it 

 be in small fruit or in tree fruit. 



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