276 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Mr. Goodman moved the adoption of the report, exoept the part 

 in regard to the Paris exposition. Carried. 



Mr. Nelson moved the part excepted be adopted. Carried. 

 Your Committee on Final Resolutions submit the following report : 



We desire to thank the people of Moberly for their uniform courtesies and kindness, 

 and for their Interest and attention to the proceedings. We wish to thank the ladles for 

 the heautlfally decorated hall. We especially wish to thank the professors, teachers and 

 pupils of the public and high schools for their most excellent singing, and also the ladles 

 for their equally excellent music. We extend the thanks of this Society to |the hotels for 

 the attentions and favors sliown visiting membars. We also wish to thank the railroads 

 for the favors we are about to receive, maybe. If not, then we wish to thank our worthy 

 Treasurer for jumping into the breach; whereas it is 



Resolved, That your Committee feels that its work would be most Incomplete did it 

 nqt acknowledge in some way the Inestimable services of our retiring President, rendered 

 to this Society and the great fruit interests of our State. 



We feel and acknowledge our inability to And words that will fitly express our appre- 

 ciation, or that of the friends of laortlculture everywhere. We have not only enjoyed the 

 benefit of his precepts, but have been equally benefited by his example, the results of 

 which may be witnessed in the magnificent liortlcuitural monument he has reared amidst 

 his green Ozark hills. We freely admit the truthfulness of his statement that no one in 

 jyilssouri is more deserving or more capable tlian tlie one chosen as his successor, and 

 realize that his large private interests impose a heavy burden upon him, yet we trust that 

 he will still give us the benefit of his counsel and advice in the future as liberally as he 

 has done in the past . * 



Future generations will point backward to the time when horticulture in Missouri 

 took an onward and upward bound towards the splendid fruit development that within a 

 score of years placed a comparatively unknown State, in so far as her fruit productive capa- 

 city was concerned, not only among the first, but actually the first fruit state in the Union. 



Among all the men who may take due share of credit for this splendid result, there is 

 no name to wlioin so much is due as that of the Hon J C. Evans, of Missouri. 



Carried. 



RESOLUTION. 



Whereas, The World's Pair is next to be held at the city of Paris, France, in the year 

 of 1900; and 



Whereas, The general government Is now arranging for space to exhibit American 

 products, among tliem the agricultural and horticultural products of our land; and 



Whereas, The President of the United States will soon appoint commissioners for the 

 various departments; and » 



Whereas, Missouri is now among the first states in the value of her fruit products in 

 the union; therefore, be it 



Resolved, Tliat the Missouri State Horticultural Society, in annual meeting assembled 

 at the city of Aioberiy, having full confidence in liis knowledge and ability as a fruit-grower 

 and shipper, and by reason of his past experlnce of twenty-years as a dealer, grower and 

 shipper both in this and to foreign countries, therefore we hereby most earnestly and re- 

 spectfully petition his excellency, Wm. McKlnley, President of the United States, to ap- 

 point the Hon. Chas. C. Bell of Booneville, Mo., one of the special commissioners for the 

 United States in charge of the horticultural products placed on exhibition at said World's 

 Fair. 



Carried. 



Omaha, Neb., December 9, 1897. 

 .L. A. Goodman, Horticultural Society, Moberly, Mo. : 



Greeting from Trans-Mississippi Exposition. We expect Missouri to do her part 

 nobly. 'F. W. TArLOR. 



