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cer, 266 ; Putnam, 154 ; Schuyler, 68 ; Scotland, 98 ; Clark, 80 ; Holt, 

 376 ; Andrew, 423 ; Gentry, 206 ; Daviess, 206 ; Grundy, 174 ; Sulli- 

 van, 155 ; Adair, 132 ; Knox, 92 ; Lewis, 65 ; DeKalb, 128 ; Buchanan, 

 393 ; Clinton, 132 ; Caldwell, 110 ; Livingston, 363 ; Linn, 224 ; Ma- 

 con, 337; Shelby, 88; Marion, 75; Platte, 363; Clay, 167; Carroll, 

 281; Chariton, 257; Randolph, 111; Monroe, 128; Ralls, 142; How- 

 ard, 157 ; Boone, 221 ; Audrain, 82 ; Pike, 262 ; Callaway, 183 ; Mont- 

 gomery, 85; Lincoln, 123; Waren, 96; St. Charles, 149; Jackson, 

 442; Lafayette, 351; Saline, 259; Cooper, 186; Cass, 156; Johnson, 

 210 ; Pettis, 206 ; Morgan, 71 ; Moniteau, 120 ; Cole, 80 ; Gasconade, 

 101 ; Franklin, 210 ; St. Louis, 813 ; Jefferson, 195 ; Osage, 80 ; Bates, 

 221 ; Henry, 134 ; Benton, 82 ; Camden, 144 ; Miller, 120 ; Maries, 74 ; 

 Crawford, 383 ; Washington, 94 ; St. Francois, 98 ; Ste. Genevieve, 

 70 ; Vernon, 414 ; St. Clair, 143 ; Hickory, 89 ; Pulaski, 188 ; Phelps, 

 135; Barton, 233; Cedar, 193; Polk, 280; Dallas, 171; Laclede, 319; 

 Jasper, 312 ; Dade, 199 ; Greene, 570 ; Webster, 604 ; Wright, 478 ; 

 Texas, 521 ; Dent, 337 ; Reynolds, 76 ; Iron, 48 ; Madison, 61 ; Bol- 

 linger, 142; Cape Girardeau, 136; Perry, 97; Shannon, 147; New- 

 ton, 368; Lawrence, 237; Christian, 216; Douglas, 312; Howell, 

 849 ; Carter, 57 ; Wayne, 120 ; Scott, 28 ; Stoddard, 80 ; Mississippi, 

 20; McDonald, 318; Barry, 406; Stone, 83; Taney, 54; Ozark, 77; 

 Oregon, 194 ; Ripley, 81 ; Butler, 89 ; Dunklin, 50 ; New Madrid, 17 ; 

 Pemiscot, 16. 



Forty dollars an acre every year for twenty years is the aver- 

 age of a Holt county orchard. Two hundred dollars an acre is the 

 return of a McDonald county orchard. From one tree in a single 

 year have come 110 bushels of apples. The largest wild crab apple 

 in the world is in Missouri, 9 feet in circumference. J. 0. Allison of 

 Ralls county has grown apples weighing 30 ounces and measuring 

 I814 inches. There is an apple tree in Missouri 90 years old, IOV2 

 feet in circumference, still bearing fruit. The largest apple or- 

 chard in the world is in Missouri. 



This year's bumper apple crop will likely stimulate apple plan- 

 tation. In the last fifteen years the number of apple trees has 

 grown 300 per cent. What then was the pastime of the few has 

 now become the business of the many. 



APPLE GROWER AS A CITtZEN. 



The Missouri apple grower is among the Sate's best citizens, 

 He could not grow apples successfully and be otherwise. The cul- 

 tivation of the apple takes into the out-of-doors, and he who works 

 with intelligence in the orchard must learn to reverence the God 



