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INTO THE OZARKS. 



AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY INVADE THE PEACH ORCHARDS. 



The American Pomological Society, which held its last convention 

 in Kansas City, Mo., September 19-21, ended its labors with a delightful 

 trip down into the land of the big red apple, the home of the luscious 

 peach, the country which lies below, alongside and. athwart the green- 

 topped O'zarks. 



At the close of the last session, Thursday night, September 21, a 

 party of sixty-three took themselves and their suit cases to the Wyandotte 

 street station, boarded two special Pullman cars and set up their Lares 

 and Penates for a week's stay. 



They were a jolly crowd, these fruit men, and as soon as they forgot 

 that they were professors in agricultural schools and came down to 

 earth they were the best of their kind. 



From eig'hteen different states they had gathered in Kansas City to 

 learn what others of their kind had done and to tell these others what 

 they had accomplished. 



These men were of all sorts and conditions ; big and little, tall and 

 short, rotund and lithe, quiet and fun loving, dignified and pranky. 



There were men who made themselves felt at every stopping place 

 and others who stood back and drank in all they heard. 



WHO THEY WERE. 



There was tall Craig from Ithaca, N. Y., a Canadian, whose lucky 

 star brought him to this country, and set him teaching in Cornell Uni- 

 versity; there was Hansen of South Dakota, whose great store of learn- 

 ing was disseminated with a quaint trace of his native tongue; there 

 was Dutcher of Warrensburg, Mo., who beat the Dutch at telling fishing 

 stories; there was Macomb of Lawrence, Kan., whose dissertations on 

 books and literature made one feel ashamed of himself, because he had 

 not read bigger and better; Gano of Parkville, the m^n who made the 

 Gano apple a thing of beauty; Wragg of Des Moines, la., who lived 

 up to his name whenever there was a talk on hand ; Hutt of Wa'shington, 

 D. C. the Beau Brummel of the crowd; Holsinger of Rosedale, Kan., 

 who, if he ever loses out on fruit growing, can take to vaudeville; Beach 

 of Ames, la., quite and thoughtful ; Brusse of Amsterdam, Holland, big 

 and smilelQss; Burton of Mitchell, Ind., whom everyone loved for his 



