90 MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



cause he could do it better He simply ruined that man, and there 

 never was enough of a man in him to manage his own business after the 

 death of the uncle, and to this day he is a complete failure. 



I tell you I want our Agricultural college to stand on its own foun- 

 dation and sink or swim, live or die like a man. 



THE RESULTS OF OUR FRUIT SHOW 



Are showing day by day, and often I have to answer the questions pro- 

 pounded by men who visited that great show of fruits so well kept 

 up for forty days and forty nights. 



To-day you see on the table some specimens of apples from the 

 Rainbo to the Romanite, which cannot fail to satisfy you that if you 

 could see 3,000 plates filled with specimens like these you would think 

 it worth looking at, and then if you could see that collection improved 

 day by day for forty days, you can get a faint idea of what we had at 

 St. Louis exposition. 



Hundreds of people have entered Missouri only to find good 

 homes and pleasant surroundings, one of the results of that show of 

 fruits. Any now a word as to fruit shows in the future. I believe and 

 that truly : The only way to make a show of fruits is for 



EXHIBITIONS AND NOT FOR PREMIUMS. 



I believe our fairs should give our local societies a certain amount 

 of money to make the best showings possible, and not have such an 

 everlasting bother with these petty jealousies and faultfindings and 

 trouble which they often cause. Let the individual members compete 

 with each other for the smaller ones, but let the great show be made 

 as an exhibition of what can be grown, and let the association pay for 

 it. Our local societies could all be interested in the plan of working^ 

 and the counties could be induced to give a sum of money for that 

 purpose, as authorized by law. (R. S., sec. 4057.) 



A LIBRARY 



Of some of our standard works should be begun, which would grad- 

 ually grow as occasion would demand, and be of much, very much 

 value to the society in the future, when it can afford to have a good 

 entomologist and botanist in its employ. We now have a goodly col- 

 lection of reports of other states, and pamphlets of the government, 

 and we should have the foundation now laid for a good future library. 

 The call now is so great that no man can live without books, to 

 say nothing of a society. Books, books everywhere, and in spite of 



the old adage that 



' ' Man can live without books. 

 But cannot live without cooks," 



we need a good library. 



