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ing, packing, refrigeration and rapid transit have solved the difficulty 

 so that now cur perishable fruits reach all the important markets- 

 between the Rocky mountains and the Atlantic ocean. The difficul- 

 ties of disposing of the fruit had to present themselves and to be 

 worried over for a time before a solution of the problems could be 

 worked out. 



The progress which is being made in commercial fruit growing 

 reminds one of the old time notion that the Louisiana Purchase terri- 

 torv could never become an integral part of the United States for 

 the reason that its distance from the seat of government would pre- 

 vent representatives fro-m reaching the capital until their term of 

 office had expired. That seemed to be an insurmountable obstacle to 

 our successful acquirement of the territory, but, you all know today 

 what has .happened and how such bugbears fade away. 



We would take stronger heart in cur vocation if we could realize 

 how steadily horticultural problems are being solved. The fact of 

 the matter is that these changes take place so subtly and so naturally 

 that we fail to notice the change and we look upon a present dif- 

 ficulty, like apple scab, bitter rot or failure of fruit to keep as being 

 a difficulty which is bound to stay with us always. 



If, however, we contrast the present conditions with the less 

 favorable ones of the past we may get something of a view of what 

 the future no doubt holds out to us. In fact, progress is going on at 

 an accelerated rate and more is now accomplished in a decade than 

 formerly was done in a half century. This view leads us to the con- 

 clusion that while some of the trials of the fruit grower of the Ozark 

 section may be hard to bear — temporarily, at least — that this section- 

 is destined to be one of the greatest fruit regions of the world, and 

 that the ver}^ problems you are now meeting are going to be the 

 main stimulus to the accomplishment of that end. 



NUT BEARING TREES. 



(.T. T. Jackson, Chillicotlie.) 



The fruit men of the United States, and of ^lissouri in particular, 

 have neglected and in a manner overlooked the importance of our 

 nut bearing trees. There has been no individual nor organized effort 

 put forth to preserve, protect or propagate these useful trees. They 

 have been cut down without care for future use. Nut bearing trees 



