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table grapes can be grown here. Here in the Ozarks you have all of 

 the elements necessary for fine fruits. The most perfect apples I saw this 

 year were from the Ozarks. Here you have the firmness of the fruit if 

 you can get the humus in the soil. Land can be bought for from five 

 to fifteen dollars per acre, while in Colorado people pay a hundred dol- 

 lars for the fruit lands and ship from there to Missouri. You should 

 stand by the Ozarks as a fruit growing country, of course you have 

 failures, but every part does. If we gave one-tenth of the care to our 

 orchards and vineyards that the Pacific coast people do we would be 

 loo per cent better off. 



Member. — I want to ask why a one-year-old tree had one hundred 

 blossoms and at two-years-old bore two apples? 



Prof. Whitten. — The tree was probably girdled by a wire or a graft 

 stricture, or by the rabbits, or was infested by woolly aphis, 



C. W. Steiman — In regard to growing fruit from year to year, 

 I have seen in my home orchard that some years one variety will be bet- 

 ter than others. I believe that we can have apples every year if we 

 select the proper kinds or varieties so as to have some of them bearing 

 and get some profit every year. 



D. MciNallie — We talk of failures in the Ozarks, but the fault is 

 with the people. If our planting were more diversified, we would have 

 fruit and we don't need to have a failure in a hundred years. As long 

 as we confine our fruits to one particular line, we are going to have 

 failures occasionally. Why should we have great plantations of one 

 variety? Why not plant grapes, apples and strawberries? Why are we 

 confined in this district to the strawberry? While the grape may succeed 

 this year, the other kinds of fruit fail. I had a failure the years we had 

 too many berries, so now I am putting out cherries, peaches, pears, plums 

 and apples, not all Ben Davis nor all Elberta. I am putting out largely 

 in all these, but using many varieties so as to have some fruit to eat 

 whether I have any to sell or not. 



J. A. Orr — I have a tooth for grapes. At two years from planting 

 my vines bore and I have had no failures since, except from neglect to 

 spray. One year the new shoots froze because I pruned too soon, and 

 they froze a second time, and then put out a third growth and we had 

 grapes that year. I got a merchant in town to sell them, and after the 

 first trial he was glad to get them. The Missouri grapes are better than 

 any other. From the ist of August to November, I had my own grapes. 

 I spray and then cover with paper sacks. 



Prof. Whitten — This year the Alissouri Experiment Station sent 

 one hundred and seven varieties of grapes to the World's Fair, and they 



