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loess hills of the Missouri river and all they need is proper selection 

 of varieties, and proper care and cultivation, and results will be as- 

 sured. 



Missouri occupies a notable position in regard to great men in both 

 the berry line and grape growing by the niiroduction of new varieties. 

 Among them are Herman Jeager of Neosho, Jacob Rommel of Mor- 

 rison, Samuel Miller of Bluffton. J. C. Evans of Harlem, and George 

 Hussman, formerly of Columbia, Mo. 



One of the most profitable fruits for Xorth ^Missouri is the cherry. 

 "When cherries are ripe even baby wants one." The cherry does 

 much better from the Missouri river north. The southern part of our 

 State seems to have too long summers for this northern fruit and the 

 trees shed their leaves too early in summer or fall and thus become 

 summer killed or summer injured and the winter finishes them. The 

 high dry hills along the [Missouri river and north seems peculiarly 

 adapted to this fruit production m a very profitable degree. 



Three or four or five varieties are the profitable ones to grow in 

 a commercial way and they give us a succession of the fruits for a 

 considerable season. The markets are always calling for the cherry 

 and they are never supplied. The call from the west for the appetizing 

 cherry is becoming greater and greater each year and the supply does 

 not keep pace with the demand. No better opening offers to the fruit 

 grower than the planting of large commercial orchards close to good 

 transportation lines for shipment to our large cities, small towns and 

 the far west in particular. A number of orchards containing a hun- 

 dred or two hundred acres of cherry orchard would bring returns 

 beyond our imagination and make Missouri the cherry state as well 

 as the peach and apple state of the Union. Among the best varieties 

 are Early Richmond, Ostheim, English Morello, Dyehouse, Montmorency 

 and Wragg. 



The next fruit in importance and the one most grown over the 

 State and only surpassed by that king of fruits, is the luscious peach. 

 The peach grows everywhere in the State, but in its perfection and to 

 the greatest profit in a commercial way only the high hills of the 

 river bluffs on the "loess" formation, and on the Ozark mountains 

 where there is the proper elevation and congenial soil with proper 

 porous subsoil. 



The most entensive development in peach growing has been noted 

 here in Missouri that was ever known, probably. Hundreds of thou- 

 sands of acres of the red lands of the Ozarks have been cleared of 

 their black jack oaks and other scrubby timber and planted to the 



