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party to whom we shipped some of them wrote: "Don't send us any- 

 more of those mulberries." 



Mr. Riehl — Some of you speak very badly of the Snyder. It will 

 set five times as much fruit as it can mature. If you prune too severely 

 you will not get a crop. I noticed that I got my fruit from very small 

 canes, or from the laterals. I prune to 24 inches. When the laterals 

 have made some growth, I stop them again, and make a third set of 

 laterals. In this way I get fine fruit from the Snyder. 



President Evans— I indorse every good word for the Snyder. We 

 have found that on rich ground it should be cut severely. I have 

 never tried this double pruning. The Taylor is also good. 



Mr. Eiehl — We find the Erie very much like the Lawton. It has 

 & very large core which you cannot cook to pieces. The Agawam we 

 have grown, but can find nothing in it. 



NIGHT SESSION. 



The evening program was one of the best ever offered, and was 

 one of entertainment and instruction. Pleasant and delightful music, 

 songs and recitations were interspersed with the regular work. First 

 came a double quartette, which was enthusiastically encored. Then 

 followed a paper, 



FRUIT GROWING IN MISSOURI. 



G. C. BROADHEAD. 



The State of Missouri, with its 67,000 miles of area, certainly is 

 much varied as to its topography, its geology and its flora. 



A line passing from the northeast to the southwest part of the State 

 will leave most of the timbered land on the southeast, with chiefly 

 prairie land on the northwest. 



The Missouri river, or rather from six to ten miles north and one- 

 half the distance from its mouth to Kansas City, is the dividing line 

 between the chiefly hilly country to the south and the rolling land and 

 prairies lying northwardly. Continue this line southwestwardly and its 

 approximate course would be from mouth of Lamine river southwest- 

 wardly via Sac river, Cedar county, Lawrence, and southwestwardly. 

 East and south of this may be considered as belonging to the Ozarks. 

 The soils of South Missouri are often silicious, sometimes sandy or 

 else largely resulting from the decomposition of magnesiau limestones? 

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