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accord with all others, and thus through the State becoming a power 

 and knowledge not to be slighted. 



The development of the fruit interests is something we have been 

 trying to accomplish during the last few years. We have by meeting 

 together and talking and investigating made known the fruit interests 

 of the State far beyond their own contracted sphere. From almost 

 every point along the Missouri river, from St. Louis to the boundaries 

 of Iowa and the corner of Nebraska, we have been developing the 

 apple interests of our State. Thousands of acres of those rich lands 

 of Northwest Missouri have been transferred into beautiful, bountiful, 

 beneficial orchards, until more money is made on one acre of orchard 

 or other fruits than on ten of other products — developing these and 

 all of the lands of the State from the North to the South and the East 

 to the West for the fruits of Missouri. 



Then scientific study is attracting attention all over our country, 

 and especially in the fruit line. Our growers are becoming more ob- 

 serving, and are reporting things they do not know and facts they do 

 not understand to our scientists, until we are getting an army of them 

 to work in different portions of our country and in different lines of 

 study. We are opening up a field broad and wide, and inviting our 

 young people and our old people to step in and examine for themselves. 

 Here is a field for those who love study and who are willing to enter 

 it, where there is no better opportunity in the whole range of profes- 

 sions to expand and grow and become noted in some special line of 

 work. I have only to point to Prof. B. T. Galloway and his success in 

 one of these lines of study, and those of us who know him know his 

 worthiness. 



Advertising our possibilities is a very important part of our work, 

 and yet we can do only a very small portion of the work which should 

 be done. A State with everything at her doors, with everything within 

 her borders, with the wonderful possibilities lying before her, needs 

 only to be well advertised to have people come to her borders. Min- 

 erals of all kinds, woods of all kinds, soils of every class, all of the 

 grains and grasses, fruits in endless variety, climate the healthiest, 

 water in abundance — what more is needful in the upbuilding of a 

 State except for the people of our country to know it? In connection 

 with the State Board of Agriculture, we are trying to do a small por- 

 tion of what should be done. 



Market and transportation, especially in the line of our fruits, is a 

 matter which needs to be brought before our railroad companies and 

 express companies in the strongest possible way. When we can get 

 our transportation companies to understand the importance of foster- 



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