COUNTY REPORTS. 357 



COLE COUNTY. 



Jefferson City, Oct. 19, 1893. 

 L. A. Goodman, Westport, Mo. 



Sir — We have organized a horticultural society in Cole county 

 at last. It took hard work, and we had a slim attendance at our first 

 meeting. Our next meeting, October 28 at the court-house in Jeffer- 

 son City. 



List of members— J. A. Hunter, Ba?s; T. M. Barker, Fred Baahrle, A.. J . 

 Davis, A.. D. Sellers, F. G. Fulkerson, M. M. Daughtery, Joseph Railton, Jeffer- 

 son City; Geo. W . Spurr, Scotts. 



Officers — T. M. Parker, president, J. A. Hunter, vice-president, Fred 

 Buehrle, treasurer, A.J. Davis, secretary. 



Ordered the proceedings be published in the city papers and Col- 

 man's Eural World. 



Will prepare a paper on our native birds for our winter meeting at 



Fulton. • Eespectfully, 



A. J. Davis. 



MO.-ARK. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Mammoth Springs, Ark., Dec. 1, 1893. 

 The third year, closing today, of our society is marked with a de- 

 gree of progress and success that is truly gratifying to those of us who 

 undertook ihe organization of a horticultural society among the foot- 

 hills of the Ozark mountains. The Mo. -Ark. Horticultural Society, 

 that has two homes, one in Missouri and one in Arkansas, is now one 

 of the fixed and permanent organizations of Oregon and Fulton coun- 

 ties — a home where the fruit grower can come and exchange valuable 

 ideas and learn new things with his neighbor. Our society has passed 

 that stage of existence when a mere bubble would topple it over. It 

 is now upon a solid foundation ; it is growing not only each day in 

 membership, but each day in usefulness. We have given three fruit 

 fairs annually, each one not only a grand success, but the last one at- 

 tracted the attention of the officials of the Department of Agriculture 

 in Washington — the State of Missouri and the State of Arkansas, each 

 of which had a representative present. I am happy to say the fruit 

 industry has grown over four-fold in our section of the country in the 

 past twelve months, and large commercial orchards are now being 

 planted all along the line of the Memphis route from Springfield, Mo., 

 to Black Rock, in Arkansas. 



