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STATE HOETI CULTURAL SOCIETY. 



FRESH FRUITS. 



Mo. State Hort'i Society, Westport. 



S. W. (Jilbert, Thayer. 



N. F. Murray, Oregon. 



Herman Jaeger, Neosho. 



C. Hartzell, St. Joseph. 



Henry Schnell, Glasgow. 



L. A. Goodman, Westport. 



George Wagner, Thayer, 



S. C. Tucker, Thayer. 



J. C. Evans, Hariem. 



John Kaufman, Kansas City. 



E. S. Curry, Thayer. 

 C. Shultz, Oregon. 



J. N. Menifee, Oregon. 

 Joe Kamber, Westport. 



F. Eslinger, Westport. 

 A. Nelson, Lebanon. 

 W. A. George, Olden. 



R. Brewster, Olden. 



C. H. Kesler, Westport. 



P. Hansen, Harlem. 



J. Kirchgraber, Springfield. 



G. M. McCartney, Thayer. 



K. Royce, West Plains. 



J. Engleman, Moody. 



Olden Fruit Co., Olden. 



C. Thorp, Weston. 



J. Levalle, (Jhain of Rocks. 



G. Kelsey & Co., St. Joseph. 



W. A. Gardener, West Plains. 



A. Seaver, St. Louis. 



L. Johnson, Thayer. 



R. Bess & Bro , Thayer. 



Louis Erb, Cedar Gap. 



Wm. Brodbeck, Oregon. 



An act of the General Assembly for 1893 incorporated the State 

 Society, and provided for its maintenance. From its provisions no one 

 can become a member except by paying into the treasury a dollar per 

 year, or $10 to become a life member. The old rale adopted by the 

 Society, that members of local societies are members, can no more be 

 in force since the passage of this act. The Legislature gave the So- 

 ciety $2500 per year for two years' current expenses, and $2500 for 

 publication of the report, limiting them to 400 pages, and of course 

 the limit in number will be about 3500, when in reality we now need 

 6000 at least. 



The plan to be followed in the development of the fruit interests 

 and the fruit lands can be no better than the one followed for the last 

 few years. The organizing of local societies over our State is one of 

 the very best means known. Creating an interest not only in fruit and 

 flower-growing, but in fruit-eating is one of the plans for us to follow. 

 Our people are becoming more and more a fruit- consuming people, and 

 they are calling for more fruit of all kinds, cheap fruits and plenty of 

 them. 



Our work first is to grow plenty of the very best of fruits, to pack 

 them well and evenly, to find markets for their disposal, to induce our 

 transportation companies to transport them cheaply and quickly, to 

 study our locations for special fruits from special soils, to choose 

 proper varieties for the market we are to reach, to care for our orchards, 

 vineyards and fruit plantations, as we care for our other business mat- 

 ters, to ward off the insects which spoil our specimens, to fight the 



