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did and was trying to do. He was not a robust man, but was a will- 

 ing worker for the interests of this Society to the extent of his physical 

 ability. 



How long he had been identified with the fruit interests of Mis- 

 souri, we know not, but are informed that at the mature age of 70, but 

 for a horticulturist not a decadent age, he passed away amid the scenes 

 of a useful life and a happy home. 



Honored by his fellow-fruit growers, he was President of the Ran- 

 dolph County Society for a number of years. By many he was con- 

 sidered the best posted man in the county on orchard growing. The 

 fine young orchard, the child of his old age, considered by some the 

 pride of the county, testifies to his intelligent and careful labor in his 

 chosen profession. 



Many of us well remember the meeting of two grand strawberry 

 growers at Columbia two years ago, R. M. Kellogg of Michigan and 

 D. McNallie of Missouri. These were great men, engaged in the same 

 work, but in far removed sections of our country. DiflFerent conditions 

 led to different results and dififerent conclusions. These dififerences 

 being published, led most naturally to a controversy, spirited at times, 

 but never acrimonious. Each contended earnestly for the faith that 

 was in him, as we are all commanded to do in matters religious. That 

 each of these men, working along nature's lines, getting at times close 

 to nature's God, should observe this injunction in matters horticultural, 

 is not a cause for surprise, much less for regret, for they were not un- 

 mindful of that other valuable injunction "not to contend about words 

 to no profit, for they engender strife." They respected each other for 

 their work's sake, and at the meeting referred to they learned to love 

 each other. 



That both of these valuable men should be called from us in the 

 short space of two years is, to say the least of it, a sad dispensation of 

 an All-Wise Providence, but such was the case. Mr. Kellogg laid down 

 his armor in less than one year from December 1903, and Mr. Mc- 

 Nallie in less than two, having died July 30, 1905. 



Mr. McNallie was born in the Province of Quebec in 1847, and at 

 13 we find him a pupil in the Sherwood public schools. He came to 

 the states in 1863, and to Jasper county, Missouri, in 1868, and settled 

 near Avilla. For a period of years he was a business man in Sarcoxie.. 

 thoroughly and actively identified with all that tended to develop the 

 town and uplift the citizenship. In 1894 he moved to his late home 

 near Sarcoxie, where he did most of the work that has endeared him 

 to us as fruit growers. 



