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J. M. Rice spoke of the resources, agricultural, horticultural and 

 mineral, of Jasper county. Only let the people see what Missouri has 

 to show. 



Mr. Carson spoke of the wonderful natural resources of the same 

 county, but for financial, commercial and political reasons he said it did 

 not pay to develop those resources. No man can produce wheat for 

 65 cents a bushel. 



Pres. Evans — Yet you cannot deny the fact that the State is self- 

 sustaining and always has been, while the rich states of Kansas and 

 Dakota have had to ask for assistance outside. 



SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



L. A. GOODMAN. 



Mr. President, Members, Ladies and Gentlemen : 



Again has a year rolled around. Faster and faster seems the time 

 to pass in this busy State of the West, in this rushing country of the 

 United States, in this flying world of ours, in this the fastest age ever 

 known to man. 



It is no wonder we say " time flies," when we have hardly turned 

 ourselves around or settled ourselves in our new year ere we have 

 again to change our dates when writing, or our place of work, or go 

 over the same work again. 



Again, dear friends, do we meet in annual convention, the thirty- 

 second, to think over our studies of the past year, to talk over our 

 successes or our mistakes, to meet one another in social intercourse, 

 to prompt each other in our profession, and to report the results of the 

 year. 



The time has come when labor and diligence, watching and work- 

 ing, knowledge and experience, business and enterprise, is just as much 

 needed, in fact more so, in the profession of horticulture than in any 

 other branch of labor or profession in the whole country. 



The time for " spontaneous production " in the line of our fruits 

 has passed forever. 



For a moment let us look at the past in the different departments 

 of this work. A retrospective view may do us some good. 



