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bees kept a reasonable distance from a public highway are not a 

 nuisance if properly handled. 



To this Society we offer our sincere thanks for courtesies and 

 good will shown. 



RESOLUTIONS. 



Mr. President and Members of the Missouri Horticultural So- 

 ciety — The Committee on Resolutions begs leave to offer the follow- 

 ing report : 



Whereas, The attention of this Society having again been 

 called to the seemingly unjust and unfair rates charged by the 

 railroads of our State upon apples, by a resolution offered by Mr. 

 T. C. Love ; and 



Whereas, Attorney-General Hadley of Missouri, in an inter- 

 view published in the metropolitan press of this date, December 

 6, states that the rates in Missouri are 25 to 35 per cent higher 

 than in the neighboring states of Illinois and Iowa ; 



Whereas, As the rate law of 1905 of Missouri reduced the 

 rate upon grain, flour, lime, salt, cement, lumber, agricultural im- 

 plements, furniture and wagons 30 per cent, and on live stock 35 

 per cent; 



Whereas, Live stock being a more perishable commodity than 

 horticultural products, upon which it appears that no reduction 

 of rate was made, but, in some instances, has been raised; there- 

 fore, be it 



Resolved that tha President of this Society be authorized to 

 appoint a committee of three to take up the matter of rates with 

 the Interstate Commerce Commission, the State Legislature or 

 otherwise, as in their judgment may seem best; be it 



Resolved further. That the Executive Board of this Society 

 is hereby authorized and instructed to make provision for the pay- 

 ment, out of any funds in the treasury of the Society not other- 

 wise appropriated, of the necessary traveling and other incidental 

 expenses of said committee, while on duty under this resolution. 



Whereas, The forests of Missouri are one of the State's great- 

 est sources of wealth ; and 



Whereas, The aggregate value of forest products exported in 

 1904 was more than $50,000,000, nearly one-third of the entire 

 jield of the United States ; and 



Whereas, Missouri's wooded areas are being rapidly dimin- 



