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The Vice-President has been with every one, and has well upheld oar 

 honor and our position. 



The Book on Horticulture is a work that the Society has taken up, 

 and in a few years it will have grown until it becomes a fact in earn- 

 est. Horticultural education is a matter that we intend to have estab- 

 lished one of these days all over the State, and then have it continued 

 at Columbia to the improvement of our whole State, a matter of so 

 much importance that we intend to be leaders in many others in our 

 State. 



The matter of transportation and marketing and co-operation are 

 some of the most important subjects we can investigate. Just how 

 best to accomplish this is a very serious question, and it is to take 

 years, I fear, to solve it rightly. The principle) is the correct one, and 

 it only wants perfect management to make it right. It does seem to 

 me that some large strong company will have to step in and help us; 

 one which has cars of its own ; one which has agents of its own in all 

 our large cities ; one which is responsible and safe and honest ; one 

 which can put all its agents under bond ; one which will return the 

 money the fruit brings. 



Another plan is to have a man of our own in all these large cities 

 to see that honest returns are made. Why should a man shipping a 

 car-load of stock follow it up to market and have no ticket to buy, 

 when a car of fruit worth more than double should be allowed to go 

 where it will and handled and sold and no one to watch it? 



And now dear friends, I have only attempted to outline some of 

 the work to do and some we have done. As years go on, I find the 

 work growing and improving, and developing in a remarkable degree. 

 It is a work in which I delight. Nothing does me so much good as to 

 make orchards of the black-jack or scrubby oak lands, or even the 

 prairie lands of our great State. Thousands of these hills are the 

 places where the apple delighteth to grow and flourish like a green 

 bag tree. It is yours to be up and doing, and the results will not dis- 

 appoint you. Study and work, and learn and work, and discuss and 

 work. Anything you can learn from the experience of others and 

 make that experience yours, do not fear to use it with good common 

 sense and discretion. 



Education is only the study of what others have found out from 

 experience and experiment. Study them, educate yourself in what 

 you want to do and success is yours. 



The President of the Arkansas State Society asked me the other 

 day, " what was the secret of the success of Missouri State Society V^ 

 and I answered quickly, " union." The coat of arms of our State on the 



