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spicy flavor, it is made up of our best commercial sorts. This exhibit 

 is the compliments of jNIr. Jesse Butterfield of Lee's Summit, and con- 

 vinces us that he is not only a good fellow, but a good judge of cider. 

 If any one is skeptical on this point, we are sure that a new feeling will 

 come over them if they will sample this exhibit before leaving the meet- 

 ing. 



The exhibit by the Missouri State Horticultural Society is made 

 up of 216 plates of apples of this season's crop and 20 plates of World's 

 Fair apples of 1904, which being the exhibit of our own Society, your 

 committee reserve comment and allow the exhibit to speak for itself. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Geo. T. Tippin, 

 J. C. Evans, 



D. ]\I. HULEN. 



TROUBLES OE ORCHARD MANAGEjMENT. 



(Extract from Paper Read by C. H. Williamson, Quincy, III.) 



In our western orchards we are at the threshold of some very seri- 

 ous problems, and are face to face with the question of how best to meet 

 them. It is no longer a question, as it was twenty years ago, of setting 

 out the trees and letting nature take its course. It is not even a ques- 

 tion, as it was five years ago, when only a few sprayed, and the compe- 

 tition of unsprayed orchards was not felt because they did not produce 

 goods that appealed to the same class of customers that the fruit from 

 the sprayed orchards reached. 



It is now a question of economy in the production of sprayed 

 fruit, for the experience of years has conclusively demonstrated that the 

 unsprayed orchard is no longer in the running. The owner has one of 

 two things' to do ; either spray his orchard or cut it down. He may do 

 neither, but in that case he is equally out of consideration. He will no 

 no longer produce marketable fruit. Whether he is aware of it or not, 

 his problems henceforth are those of forestry and not of orcharding. 

 Unconsciously or otherwise, he is a philanthropist of the highest type, 

 for he is doing good to others without doing any good to himself, for 

 the wood he is growing in his "orchard'' is admirably suited for either 

 fire wood or fence posts. The question under discussion concerns him 

 not. But it . does vitally concern the man wlio, within the past few 

 years, or in the last year, has taken up the real work of caring for his 



