94 State Horticidtural Society. 



THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 9 A. M. 



Fifth Session — Business Meeting. 



Call to order. 



Prayer — Rev. Sim. 



Report of Secretary. 



Report of Treasurer. 



Report of Committee on Fruits and Flowers. 



Report of Committee on Transportation. 



Invitations for meeting. 



Papers — "How to Grow the Best Nursery Trees," T. R. Pey- 

 ton, Boonville, Mo. 



Pruning— G. N. Ratliff, Moberly, Mo. 



Bitter Rot Experiments — Mr. Wm. Scott, U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture. 



SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



The report for the year has been a much more favorable one 

 than was expected. What apples there were had brought good prices, 

 and those put into cold storage kept better than ever before ; Jona- 

 than even holding until May, in spite of the fact that they were 

 probably the poorest specimens ever put into storage. It seems of 

 a certainty that the condition of the fruit at the time of gathering 

 and the condition of the weather for the two weeks previous has 

 more to do with successful cold storage than apple buyers have ever 

 taken into account. 



The mild winter brought all our fruits to this spring out in 

 splendid shape. Strawberries were a fine crop, and brought fairly 

 good prices. There were shipped from our stations in the State, 

 by express, by local shipments, by car lots, both by express and 

 refrigerator cars, over 2,000 car-loads of 600 crates each, as near 

 as the estimate can be made, and probably as many more were used 

 in the State and sold in the local markets. 



There have come into prominence a number of new shipping 

 points this year, especially in North Missouri. There seems, sure- 

 ly, to be a good opening in North Missouri for car-load shipments 



