THE CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL 



ROAD. 



Beginning at Kansas City, opens a way through Clay, Ray, Cald- 

 well, Carroll, Livingston, Grnndy, Sullivan, and Putnam counties. It 

 crosses what is known as the Grand Eiver Valley, and its many tribu- 

 taries, thus giving a vast number of the most desirable locations on the 

 hills along the little streams and yet having plenty of low lands and water 

 coui'ses to carry off the cold air. The road passes through some of the 

 oldest settled portion of the state and many of these old southern farms 

 are better adapted to fruit growing than to the stock farms for which they 

 are used. 



WORK OF THE SOCIETY. 



Our work is first one of development, of advertising our possibil- 

 ities, of securing he best localities for orchards, and of finding out the 

 adaptability of different fruits to different locations, soils, and climates. 

 Second, one of concentration of onr effort to do well and scientifically 

 Avhat should be done, to properly care for what we have imdcTtaken, and 

 imj)rove varieties and methods. Third, one of instruction, that is try- 

 ing to have the right thing done in planting, in cultivation, in fighting 

 disease and insects, in pruning, and finally in packing, marketing and 

 trasportation. The good accomplished is, first, by showing that we are 

 a live people and a live Society in developing our resources ; second, by 

 jn-oving to outsiders that Missouri is a great fruit producing country ; 

 third, it creates an interest among oiir own people in these fine fruits; 

 fourth, it helps to increase an appetite for fruit instead of meats among 

 our city people; fifth, it educates the people as to varieties, produc- 

 tiveness, hardiness and keeping qualities; sixth, offers the buyers an 

 opportunity to compare varieties grown in different sections and locate 

 them; seventh, gives the counties an increased prominence, 

 people soon begin to inquire where it is, and what kind of people 

 live there and what lands are worth, the kind of soil, the waters, the 

 prairies, the timber, products, and soon arc going there to examine 

 them for themselves — One tells two, t\vo tell four, four tell eight, and 



already they are coming to Missouri to settle. 



L. A. GOODMAjST, 



Secretary. 



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