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accorded you the treatment they ought to have. They have been 

 generous in granting a half rate, but the least they could do is to give 

 a little better rate for attending these meetings. I believe it is possible 

 to get one cent per mile without regard to the number attending. My 

 suggestion would be to take this up with the Industrial Agent of each 

 system in the State. The Passenger departments are not interested 

 because the Horticultural work and interests do not add to their 

 department. In the Trafific department they look for an increase of 

 tonnage and are hampered in extending what is due the Society. 

 The Industrial Agent will come nearer giving the proper treatment. 

 It will be a pleasure for me as Industrial Agent for the Missouri Pacific 

 to take up this matter with my superior as the initial step and interest 

 the other lines. It will be a pleasure to do anything to help out and 

 build up this great Horticultural Societ}'. 



Air. Butcher. — Mr. Young we will call on you to help us get rates 

 in the future. 



Air. Alessick. — I will be glad to use my influence in a similar posi- 

 tion- on the Kansas City Southern. Some gentlemen asked for my for- 

 mula ; I will give it briefly at this time. In a trough put brush at the 

 bottom, then manure, then ashes, then manure, then lime and manure 

 and ten pounds of sulphur, and when the trough is full throw on water 

 and let it stand and soak for twenty-four hours; then put on water and 

 leach out the manure like leaching ashes, until it is the proper weakness 

 to use. This can be put on five thousand trees in three days and the 

 results will be apparent in thirty days. Pull dry dirt over, and it will 

 not lose by evaporation. When the mixture is leached in the trough 

 use four ounces of tincture of iron to a barrel. 



Air. Butcher. — We would now like to hear from Kansas. 



Wm. H. Barnes, Sec. Kansas State Horticultural Society. — Hor- 

 ticulturists are the finest people in the world, and are the same in all 

 states. Apples, too, are as good on our side of the line as on yours, 

 and vice versa. In the State Societies and the American Pomological 

 the people are all intelligent and an upward going class of people. 

 There is nothing finer than planting a seed or a tree, and there is 

 nothing better to teach our boys and girls. That fruits and vegetables 

 are coming more and more into our menu is due to the agitation and 

 progression of our Societies. I am always glad to come to the Mis- 

 souri Society meeting, and hope you will all visit us at our Kansas 

 meeting next week. 



Air. Butcher. — We will now have a few words from Air. Graves 

 of Neosho. 



