138 State Horticultural Society. 



the student. This is one of tlic best schools of the kind in the land 

 and shows us how to educate our heads ^vhile we are educating our 

 hands. 



The State has also provided an Experiment Station at Mountain 

 Grove whose work it is to secure all the information it can from 

 practical fruit growers, also to carry on a series of experiments for 

 themselves, and give these results to the people of the State. If any 

 information is wanted by the fruit growers of the Ozark region, or if 

 the)' have any diseases or insects troubling them, or if any person 

 wishes to know about soils, varieties, cultivation, pruning or any other 

 matter, he is at perfect liberty to inquire of this institution or call 

 upon the stafif for assistance or information, and they are ready to re- 

 spond and give the answer. This is of untold value to the fruit 

 grower. 



The Normal Schools are also taking up this line of study in their 

 required course and teaching the teachers how to teach this study of 

 "tree life" so as to be of value to young people of the State. They 

 are bringing up these matters so that everyone or anyone has an op- 

 portunity to learn about these items if he only wishes to do so. 



AGRICUI^TURAL COLI.KGE AND EXrERIMENT STATION. 



The last and best educator and helper in all these departments 

 of this work, the theory, the principle and the practical facts in regard 

 to fruit growing, the greatest instructor of them all is the University 

 of the State, the Agricultural College and the Experiment Station. 



Here any young man or yf)ung woman can get the best horti- 

 cultural education that can be obtained anywhere in the land with- 

 out money and without ])ricc. Here he can secure the study of 

 sciences, the theory of fruit growing, and the practical work as well 

 in the orchards and vineyards, nursery and green houses, garden and 

 hot beds, so that the student may know thoroughly well what to do 

 and how to do it. 



Horticulture in Missouri would surely be incomplete without the 

 presentation of the advantages for the study of horticulture at oiir 

 Agricultural College. Other states like New York with its Cornell 

 University has a greater reputation for its Horticultural School because 

 of its age, but no state cfifers greater advantages for this study in 

 all of its branches, nor better opportunity for the practical work than 

 does the Horticultural School of the Missouri State University. Here 

 the young man will find the teachers in Chemistry, Botany, Ento- 

 mology, Geology, Agriculture and Horticulture the c(|ual of any of 

 those that can be found anywhere in the land. 



