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it, but facts and knowledge such as we can keep and make our own, 

 only if Ave use them. We can have what knowledge we take and use, 

 but no more forever. 



At the close of this season, the most important one in our history, 

 I wish to congratulate the members on the position they occupy in 

 our grand Union of States. Missouri stands way in the lead in our 

 apple industry, in the peach output, in the berry shipments, in the 

 broad orchard lands along our great rivers and the tops of our moun- 

 tains, in the opportunity still open for development and improvement, 

 in all the wonderful possibilities of our wonderful State, in the organi- 

 zation of our State Society forty-seven years ago, and its annual gath- 

 ering without break in all these years, in the grand organization and 

 the influence of our State Society and its wonderful achievements 

 during the past twenty-five years ; and above all, we wish to con- 

 gratulate the grand, good, noble, unselfish, patriotic men and women 

 without whom all the grand possibilities of the State would have been 

 lost. To you, then, who have stood so faithfully by us in all this 

 work and worry and labor, be all the honor and glory of a successful 

 and united Society, and the glorious results of our World's Fair dis- 

 play. 



This has come to you as a just reward for your faithfulness and 

 unity of action as was promised to you by your officers and Executive 

 Committee twenty-three years ago under the reorganization at that time. 



To-day, therefore, as we stand beneath the grandeur of our ac- 

 complishments, we shall feel proud of what we have been and what 

 we are, and pledge anew our devotion to our cause, and in happy re- 

 membrances of our individual friendship and our united work and 

 its result, be glad that we ever knew each other, and had a hand in 

 making this Society the best in our land, and this State the grandest 

 fruit State in our glorious Republic. 



Adair. 



Andrew. 



Atchison. 



Audrain. 



Buchanan. 



Boono. 



Bollinger. 



Barry. 



Bates. 



Barton. 



Chariton. 



Cooper. 



Carroll. 



Clay. 



Cole. 



Christian. 



Clinton. 



