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this line. Fruit must be chosen from this year's crop. Also sum- 

 mer fruits should be sent to Dr. Whitten, to be preserved in jars. 



SEVENTH SESSION— Thursday, June 14, 8 p. m. 



PROGRAM. 



Music by Tedford's Orchestra. 



Paper — Relation of Bees to Horticulture, J. W. Rouse, Mexico, 

 Recitation — Miss Dix. 



Paper — Orchard Problems, F. W. Faurot, Mt. Grove, Mo. 

 Northeast Missouri for Fruit Growing, Geo. S. Townsend, 

 Troy, Mo. 



Resolutions. 



PROBLEMS OF ORCHARD CULTURE IN THE OZARKS. 



(By F. W. Faurot, Fruit Station, Mt. Grove, Mo.) 



The subject, as assigned me by the Secretary, is "Problems 

 lOf Orchard Culture in the Ozarks," and I will attempt to deal 

 with the subject only so far as it relates to that region. The prob- 

 lems connected with orcharding in the Ozarks are perhaps no more 

 numerous than in any other fruit growing district of the country. 

 Some of them are of minor consequence and some of grave im- 

 portance; some affect the whole region, others are local in their 

 distribution ; some we have with us continually, others visit us only 

 occasionally. 



Some of the most serious problems might be enumerated, as 

 follows: Location of orchards, soils, longevity of trees, size of 

 plantings, care, diseases, and to these might be added the uncer- 

 tainty of paying crops; but this latter is better considered as a 

 sum or result of which the other problems are factors. The ques- 

 tion of locality and soils go hand in hand, and might almost be 

 considered as part of one problem. What is meant in part by lo- 

 cation is, that there are places in every vicinity which are more 

 especially adapted to orchard purposes than other parts of the 

 same vincinity — that is, the special advantages that an orchard 

 may hold by which, because of its particular location, it is enabled 

 to withstand varying and unfavorable weather conditions. In this 



