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4th. A commercial exhibit should be kept prominent, as every exhibit 

 for commercial fruit growing gives us the name, the honor, and 

 the money. 



5th.. Exhibits should be made by counties or districts or local organi- 

 zations or county societies so that each county may get credit 

 for all its display. Appeal is made to our county pride for the 

 success of our county exhibit. 



6th. Every man who contributes to the display should have due credit 

 to himself, and to his county, for all his work. 



7th. The State should pay the expense of collecting, gathering, packing, 

 wrapping, express, processing in glass jars and cold storage 

 on all these fruits, and yet each individual and each county get 

 credit for all fruit furnished. Every shipment should be plainly 

 marked with the name of county, name of grower, post-oftice, 

 kind of fruit, variety and date of shipment. 



Sth. A small but characteristic display should be kept up at all times 

 in the State Building as well as the large and complete display 

 in the Plorticultural Building. 



9th. Every count}- or district should be represented, so that all parts 

 of the State may have the honors, and not a few localities only. 



loth. There should be i,ooo barrels of apples, lOO barrels of pears, 

 quinces, and a number of bushels of native nuts of all kinds, 

 put into cold storage in the fall of 1903. 



nth. As fast as fruits ripen during the year 1904 there should be the 

 most complete exhibit made that it is possible to secure w-hile 

 the fruits are ripening and in their prime. And every, kind and 

 variety of fruits and nuts, both tame and wild, which grows in 

 Missouri, should be on the tables during the year, while each 

 particular fruit is in its season. 



1 2th. There should be enough fruit secured so that we could give to 

 those people who are interested, some specimens for testing, or 

 to take to their homes as a good advertisement for the State. 

 Acting as host, the State will often be called upon to do the 

 honor of the occasion by the giving of an apple to the visitor. 



IN GENERAL, 



In order to secure the best results, therefore, we mttst begin the 

 preparation this spring and continue this care and preparation for not 

 only this year, but this year and next year also. Like the stockman in 

 the preparation of his cattle for show, it often takes not only one year, 

 but two years and three years if he secures his ideal. Just so must the 

 fruit grower begin his preparation now and continue his care for the 



