Winter Meeting. 331 



REPORT OF THE MISSOURI COMMISSION TO 



THE GOVERNOR. 



B. H. BONFOEY, Secretary. M. T. DAVIS, President 



THE DEPART^^IENT OF HORTICULTURE. 



This department was organized by the appointment on April 16, 

 1903,, of Mr. L. A. Goodman of Kansas City, Missouri, as Superin- 

 tendent. Mr. Goodman had been secretary of the State Horticultural 

 Society for more than twenty years and was not only one of the best 

 posted and most enthusiastic, but one of the most successful Horticul- 

 turists in the State. He owned large fruit farms in the southwest sec- 

 tion of the State and seemed to be the man upon whom all the irmt 

 growers of the State could agree as the proper man for this position. 

 The main difficulty encountered in the beginning of this work was 

 the inability to secure a sufficient number of glass jars in which to 

 place the processed fruit. All such jars to be found in the wholesale 

 "houses of St. Louis and Kansas City were purchased, and we are 

 under special obligations to Faxon-Horton & Gallagher of Kansas 

 City, and the Meyer Bros. Drug Co., Henry Heil Chemical Co. and 

 Moffitt-West Drug Co. of St. Louis, for their consideration in selling 

 to us their entire supply of these glass jars. 



After the purchase of these jars a printed circular was issued and' 

 •mailed to the fruit growers throughout the State making an appeal for 

 a large collection of fine fruits for exhibition at the World's Fair, and 

 ■suggesting rules for a general collection of fruit to be put up in jars 

 and for the careful cultivation and fertilization of fruit plants, vines 

 and trees in order to produce the largest and finest fruits. The ar- 

 rangements for processing fruits were made to be carried on at St. 

 Louis, Kansas City, Columbia and Springfield. To these points all 

 fruit to be processed and placed in jars was shipped. In this connec- 

 tion we are under obligations to the Guardian Trust Company of 

 Kansas City for having furnished us fine rooms, heat and light free 

 of charge the entire season for the work of processing fruits and 

 storing the same until needed at the World's Fair. 



The Armour Packing Company of Kansas City also conferred a 

 favor upon this department by furnishing a large amount of fruit 



