2Z4: STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



say that a majority of the people of this country do Dot know that 

 sugar can be made from beets that can be grown right on their own 

 farms. If we can add this to the industries of the State, it will be a 

 big addition to the resources of the farm. 



All this has been done without the expense of a cent to this Society. 

 Every county has had samples, some as high as sixty-five in one county. 

 In conoection with this work of the Department of Agriculture, our 

 State Experiment Station is doing good work along this line. They 

 will do better work in the near future. 



QUESTIONS AND SUGGEGTIONS. 



We often hear a question asked or a suggestion made that seems 

 <iuite simple at first thought, but when followed up and properly an- 

 swered or acted on, may mean a great deal and benefit some one or 

 many, largely. 



There are some questions that are being asked quite often recently, 

 such as, will it pay me to start in the fruit business now ? Will it pay 

 to plant an orchard in Missouri? Would you advise planting small 

 fruit on a large scale at a certain point ? Will it pay to plant peaches 

 on a large scale in the Ozarks? Do you think the fruit business will be 

 overdone ? And many others of a similiar nature. But the most import- 

 ant one, and one that is the key to the entire situation is, how cm we 

 bring about a better distribution of the products of our fruit farms ? 

 When we have succeeded in placing these products where they are 

 wanted, we have solved the problems and answered all the above ques- 

 tions. Can we do it 1 Yes. 



I just had a letter from a gentlemauL in one of the western states 

 east of the Rockies, who said he went into the fruit-growing business 

 on the Pacific coast in the earlier days, and when his fruits were ready 

 to ship, he could find no market that would pay him to ship to ; so 

 said he, I got out the best I could, just walked out. His natural de- 

 sire to grow fruit leads him now to want to come to Missouri to make 

 a fruit farm. 



Compare the condition on the Pacific coast then and now, and we 

 find that then there was no system while they could grow fine fruits ; 

 each one thought himself smarter than the other fellow and sought what 

 he thought the best market. The result in most cases was, they all sent 

 to the same market, and the market was like the old nigger's bank, 

 " done broke long ago, sir," and many a fruit-grower who was a success 

 at growing was compelled to walk out of the business, Many of thein. 



