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Neosho over the Kansas City Southern road, arriving there Friday morn- 

 ing. Carriages conveyed the tourists to some of the large strawberry 

 fields and afterwards to the State Fish Hatcheries. The train then went 

 on to Gentry, arriving there at 11 o'clock, where a brass band and the 

 people of the town and immediately surrounding country were out. 

 Barrels of apples being marketed, .gave the visitors a glimpse of the 

 methods of handling that fruit in the O'zark country. An old-fashioned 

 picnic dinner was served. Then there was a drive to the apple and peach 

 orchards. 



Later in the day the party attended a fruit fair, which was in progress 

 there, where there was speechmaking both by the visitors and their hosts. 



In the afternoon the special moved down to Siloam Springs, Ark., 

 where the party again turned out to see the berry plantations, apple and 

 peach orchards and other phases of the great. industry in that section. 

 Supper was served by the commercial club of that prosperous town, and 

 at night the same body held for the visitors a meeting at the opera house 

 at which speeches were made. 



The tourists woke up the next morning at Horatio, Ark., one of the 

 rapidly developing peach-producing sections of the Ozark country. 

 About 3,000 acres of Elbertas have recently been put out there, and ex- 

 cellent returns are expected from these trees. The members of the So- 

 ciety were given breakfast there, and made a brief inspection of the peach 

 orchards. Mena was the next stop, where the commercial club met their 

 guests and took them for a drive. The same body served supper, and in 

 the evening there was the usual speechmaking. Fort Smith was reached 

 Sunday morning, where, during the forenoon, the travelers rested. In 

 the afternoon officials of the street railway company of that city called 

 upon them and notified them that preparations were complete for a pleas' 

 ure and .sightseeing trip over all the lines of the company. The proffer 

 was accepted, and the pomologists went in special cars over the entire 

 city, a distance of twenty miles or more. 



Monday morning found the special train at Fayetteville, Ark., the 

 seat of the State University, the State Agricultural College and the Ex- 

 periment Station. Special attention was paid those three institutions 

 by the travelers. They were welcomed in a way in keeping with that 

 extended by the people of other towns. 



At noon Bentonville, the center of a great apple-growing region, was 

 reached, and the orchards were given an inspection. There are a nvim- 

 ber of large orchards here, and nearly every farmer has some sort of a 

 tract of ground set apart for fruit. That night the special was taken to 

 Mammoth Springs, a distance of 300 miles from Bentonville, where a 

 short period was spent in looking at the natural wonders. Later the 



