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will sell them should be paid well for them. The price asked is 

 not even the full market value, and is less even than a single mem- 

 bership of these years covered by the reports. Therefore, I move 

 that this Society authorize the payment of the sum of sixty dol- 

 lars to Mrs. Muir, for valuable services in preserving and deliver- 

 ing to the Society valuable reports. 



This motion by Dr. Whitten that these reports be paid for was 

 carried without a dissenting vote. 



Princeton, 111., June 1, 1906. 



To the Officers and Members of the Missouri State Horticultural 

 Society : 



This is to certify that Hon. Henry M. Dunlap has been duly 

 appointed as a delegate from the Illinois State Horticultural So- 

 ciety to the summer meeting of the Missouri State Horticultural 

 Society, to be held at Moberly, June 12 to 14, 1906. 



Hoping that you may have a successful meeting, I am. 



Yours fraternally, 



L. R. Bryant, Secretary. 



Holt, Clay Co., Mo., June 6, 1906. 



Mr. L. A. Goodm.an, 4000 Warwick Boulevard, Kansas City, Mo.: 



Dear Sir: — As I will not be able to attend the meeting at 

 Moberly, I will write a few lines to tell you how things are in this 

 neck of woods. In the first place, our strawberries were wiped out 

 entirely by the frost the 9th of May — the first time they have failed 

 to make a good crop with me in 25 years that I have had berries 

 on my place. 



We would have a few late ones if we had had rain, but v\e have 

 had no rain, not enough to lay the dust, since the i5th of April, 

 and I tell you things are looking blue for farmers. Lots of corn 

 is unpi anted, and much of that planted is laying in the ground, 

 as dry as it was the day it was planted. 



Meadows and oats are entirely gone; about all grass seed 

 sown is lost; the blackberries and strawberries are all dried up. 



All apple and peach trees are full, and look well to be so dry. 

 The peaches are standing the drouth best of anything. There was 

 nothing killed off the ground except a few wild grape vmes. I 

 think the dry weather has killed the scab — at least, I can find no 

 sign of it on the apples or leaves, and apples are as large as wal- 

 nuts. I see signs of a few codling moth. Will some one tell me 



