WINTER MEETING. 25T 



I believe everj^body ought to know his business and learn it well. I 

 believe the man who makes himself a jack at all trades will fail and 

 come up here and howl. You don't make one tree grow all kinds of 

 fruits. 



Mr. Dubois— Southern Illinois is, perhaps, better organized than 

 any other part of the West. Every point has a local organization, and 

 these local organizations are combined into a general organization. 

 When you are properly organized, you will be successful in your ship- 

 ments. In regard to commission men, there is no other paper which 

 has drawn the line on them as closely as I have done in the Fruit 

 Growers' Journal. When I learo of one who has wronged a shipper, 

 I publish him. They have sued me, but I beat them. I will not adver- 

 tise for a house that I do not believe is honest. There is just as much 

 trickery among fruit-growers, packers and shippers as there is among 

 commission t-uen, 



Sam. Miller — I propose the name of Dr. Dubois of the Fruit 

 Growers' Journal as an honorary member of this Society. Carried 

 unanimously. 



Mr. Dubois — This is very unexpected to me — at least it was unex- 

 pected until I suggested to Judge Miller that he offer my name as an 

 honorary member. I have noticed that something good always comes 

 to the Society which makes me an honorary member. 



J. 0. Evans — In response to Mr. Bell, I said that we are at the 

 mercy of the transportation companies. Where they have done a cer- 

 tain thing they succeed in getting some consideration from those com- 

 panies. The people of Missouri will be at the mercy of the transpor- 

 tation companies until they do just what the people of the Pacific 

 coast have done. What we want is thorough organization and co-ope- 

 ration, and then. we will not be at the mercy of those corporations. 

 We have studied, planned and worked for years to grow fruit, and now 

 we have got it ; we don'c know what to do with it. 



A YEAR'S WORK ON A FRUIT AND VEGETABLE FARM. 



Mr. .President, Ladies and Gentlemen — To do this subject justice 

 and go into details would make volumes. Thus we shall not attempt 

 to discuss how to grow, handle and market the various crops. There 

 are few pursuits of life that require more constant work, care, atten- 

 tion and planning than market gardening, combined with fruit-growing, 

 to make it a success; and unless one has a liking for it our advice is 

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