188 State Horticultural Society. 



Some Observations on the Fruit Growing Industry In the Cen- 

 tral Mississippi Valley — H. P. Gould, Assistant Pomologist, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



Organizations for Selling Fruit — J. B. Graves, Neosho, Mo., 

 President Fruit Growers' Association. 



Packing and Marketing — G. T. Tippin, Nichols, Mo. 



COMMITTEES. 



Fruits — J. C. Whitten, L. J. Hartman and S. M. Black. 

 Finance — T. C. Wilson, J. P. Sinnock and E. C. Katherman. 

 Resolutions — W. L. Howard, G. T. Tippin and H. S. Wayman. 

 Obituary — T. C. Love, G. W. Logan and T. R. Peyton. 



SOME MISTAKES IN ORCHARDING. 



(By H. S. Wayman, Princeton, Mo.) 



Mistakes are so common to our humanity that they seem to 

 form a component of life, imprinting thereon the scars of failure all 

 along. 



No wonder, then, we say, "Success is not in never failing, but 

 rising every time." However, there is no vocation in which mistakes 

 and lax methods should be more carefully avoided than m orchard- 

 ing, for in its slow and tedious process the opportunity to "rise 

 again" does not knock many times at every man's door; yet how 

 often do we see the whole operation of orcharding made a failure 

 from start to finish, and how many thus engaged who must say "the 

 mistakes of my life have been many." Hence the prime mistake 

 in orcharding is the man behind it. He, perhaps, has the idea that 

 he is practical only, he has an orchard because his father had one, 

 which is all very good; but he employs the same old methods, he 

 cultivates in the same old way, and because his father grew worm- 

 less apples thirty-five years ago, he shuts his eyes to the changed 

 conditions of today and expects the same results. He is like the 

 "stand-patter," or at least he is not progressive because he fails to 

 unite his own practical ideas and experiences with the helps ob- 

 tainable from the horticultural institutions of his land, and falls 

 victim to his legion of enemies unless he watch and spray without 

 ceasing. 



