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peach, bringing luscious fruits to eat instead of the bitter acorn. In 

 three years from planting many of these orchards have brought in 

 money, returned more than the cost of the land and clearing, fencing 

 and the planting, the cost of the trees and their care for three years. 

 Points in Southern Missouri now ship not only their car loads, but 

 their train loads of peaches every day during the Elberta season. 

 Oftentimes a small town like Olden or Koshkonong in South Missouri 

 have shipped a train load consisting of ii, 12 or 13 cars of peaches 

 from their small station in a single day. There are thousands upon 

 thousands of other acres there adapted to this peach growing and only 

 waiting the hand of the husbandman to open and plant and cultivate 

 and gather. Lands which are cheap, which never will be cheaper in 

 the world, lands which are well located, lands which will produce 

 profitably, lands which will increase in value rapidly, lands awaiting 

 the settler to come and occupy, lands which will give returns to the 

 planter, as they have done in thousands of other instances, these 

 lands await your coming. 



Not onl)^ however, are these the only peach lands, but the bluffs 

 along the Mississippi river and the Missouri river and its large tribu- 

 taries are just as valuable for peach growing as are these Ozark lands 

 if they are only properly planted and cared for. Close to a body of 

 water, high above the valleys, having good air and water drainage, 

 rich soil and porous subsoil, in this famous "loess" formation, are hun- 

 dreds of thousands of acres of other fruit lands all through Central 

 Missouri that are the very best lands for peaches and all other fruits 

 that can be found anywhere in the State, and, of course, anywhere else 

 in the world. There is one thing we are proud to boast of and that 

 truthfully, Missouri does not have to go out of the State for climate, 

 soil, rain-fall, locations for fruit growing nor for fruits themselves 

 nor in fact any other good thing. When we say it is the best in Mis- 

 souri it is the best in the world. Among the best varieties of peaches 

 are INfountain Rose, Champion, Carmen, Family Favorite, Elberta, 

 Old Mixon, free and cling, Pickett's Late, Wheatland, Salway, Wil- 

 kins, Bonanza, Henrietta. 



The last and greatest fruit, the king of them all, the apple, has a 

 greater breadth of kingdom than all the rest. It is marketed over more 

 of the land and pays greater returns for the time and labor expended 

 than the others. It i*s a great mistake to think that it will pay in 

 a commercial way anywhere, on any soil, upon any locality, or in 

 every kind of subsoil, even in the State of Missouri. 



As before stated, Missouri holds first rank in apple orchards, and. 



