SUMMER MEETING AT BROOKFIELD. 125' 



Do not be afraid that so many apples will be grown in your neigh- 

 borhood that it will be impossible to find a buyer, for in practice it has 

 been found that wherever there has been a sufficient quantity of anjr 

 one product to make it an object for dealers to go and handle that pro- 

 duct, they are always glad to do it, but when there is but a small quan- 

 tity of any one product, dealers will not be at the expense of going 

 themselves or sending their agents to purchase it, and the producer 

 must run after the dealer instead of the dealer coming to him. 



There is not a state in the Union that offers equal inducements to 

 the cultivation of the apple, as does the State of Missouri. You have- 

 varieties suited to her soil and climate, and as to location, you have an 

 advantage over nearly all the other states. 



If we go to the north into Iowa, we soon reach the point where 

 nothing but iron-clad apples can withstand the severity of the climate,, 

 and the most hardy of these are killed during a severe winter. 



When we go west into Kansas we soon strike that dry belt of 

 country subject to the hot, scorching winds, where apples have never 

 been made to thrive. If we go south into Texas we get south of the 

 apple belt. So that Missouri stands, as it were, on a promontory by 

 herself on the frontier of the apple belt. You have open to you the 

 markets of that vast tract of country known as the great Northwest, 

 the markets of the West to the very shores of the Pacific, and to the 

 South as far as you care to go. 



This may not apply to fruits of a perishable nature, for such, of 

 necessity, must find a market near the place of production, and the de- 

 mand for which is limited ; yet it is astonishing how the taste of any 

 community can be so educated that fruits become one of the indispen- 

 sable articles of daily food, instead of being looked upon as a luxury. 



BOLT COUNTY AS IT IS. 



BY W. R. LAUGHLIN, ELM GROVE. 



This article is written for those who would know more of Missouri. 



My object is to stimulate an interest in Missouri, more especially 

 in Northwest Missouri, and most especially in Holt county and its twin 

 sister Andrew. 



What I shall write of Holt is most of it equally true of Andrew, 

 and very much of it will apply to the river counties from the northwest 



