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have good fruit lands ; we have no great orchards, but we have the 

 "loess" soil and the elevation and are comparatively free from diseases. 



G. T. Tippin. — The future of the Ozark fruit growing section 

 depends on our market. We haven't the markets yet to start largely, 

 and in view of the fact that we are so distant from markets it would 

 be a good plan to plant cherries, pears (as yet only cautiously), 

 plums, vines, and thus diversify our planting. Such a variety of 

 fruits and systems of growing will give good crops every year. I would 

 like to suggest that fruit growers try planting a block of different 

 kinds of fruit; this would stimulate to greater variety and get us 

 away from the idea of having one thousand acres of apples, all of on? 

 kind. The people in the more th.ickly populated parts seldom have a 

 failure Secause they have a greater number of kinds of fruits in 

 bearing. 



Pres. Whitten. — I have been informed by a good many gentle- 

 men that here in the Ozarks your trees are making more wood than 

 fruit growth, that despite your trees bearing so much big fruit, for 

 the last year you have been getting more wood growth than fruit. 



Mr. Brereton. — So many persons say they have some fine seed- 

 ling peaches, but anything that will bear peaches doesn't deserve to 

 be called a seedling if seedling means sourness and littleness. What 

 we produce ourselves, if it is good, we ought to be proud of. 



J. W. Graves. — A gentleman invited us to come up to North Mis- 

 souri when we can no longer grow fruit here implying that they have 

 better land to grow fruit on than we have, but we grow fruit here in 

 Newton county. It is true that we sometimes have scab, but from New- 

 ton county came the apples which were given away at the World's Fair 

 on apple day. 



Mr. Steiman. — But Mr. Goodman said that the best Grimes' Golden 

 at the World's Fair came from North Missouri. 



Mr. Erb. — It seems to be understood that the apples given away 

 at the Fair came from Newton county, but 1 know of one barrel that 

 came from Wright county. In regard to grapes, Missouri grapes are 

 not good for the table; table grapes from Missouri are a failure in a 

 commercial way as they get the brown rot in a few years and it cannot 

 be stopped for I have tried both Bordeaux mixture and paper sacks. 

 For Missouri grapes we are confined to wine grapes, these can be grown 

 successfully, but the people don't want the wine. 



Mr. Zellner. — We can grow better grapes than New York, but we 

 must spray and it does not cost much. 



Mr. Murray. — I do not object to the grape juice if it is bottled be- 

 fore it ferments; this unfermented juice is in great demand. I believe 



