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ful for the crumbs that fall from the rich man's table. We have 

 simply hinted at this subject. We hope it will be taken up and fully 

 discussed, and if this article should be the means of aiding in some 

 small degree in bringing- about the much needed reform your com- 

 mittee will feel that they have been amply rewarded. 



Respectfully submitted, 



W. H. Thomas, 

 G. H. Johnson, 



C. I. CUSHMAN. 



Committee. 

 This was referred back to committee to include freight rates as 

 well as express. Our society met last Saturday and decided to get 

 up a petition and have all fruit growers to sign it and send it to the 

 Legislature. We as a society appeal to all fruit growers to do the 

 same and I think we can get lower rates, both express and freight. 



Enoch Brown^ 



Secretary. 

 The meeting adjourned until the evening session. 



FOURTH SESSION— WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 21, 8 P. M. 



The first number on the program was a piano solo, a Fantasie by 

 Chopin, which was most artistically rendered by Miss Patterson. 



For the first paper of the evening Mr. H. S. Wayman read his 

 article on The Local Fruit Farm. 



THE LOCAL FRUIl' FARM. 



(H. S Wayman, Princeton, Mo.) 



No subject will appeal to more people than that of fruit grow- 

 ing, because so many people are interested in it financially or other- 

 wise. And because it is an honorable business. I might say a God- 

 given occupation, for when the creator laid out the Garden of Eden 

 and made it both beautiful and useful, with trees and plants, he placed 

 man therein and intended for him to be a horticulturist and today we 

 look in wonderment at the great army of tillers of the soil who have 

 kept the faith and are fashioning the similitude of that garden. As 

 President Roosevelt says in his message to Congress, "Nearly half 



