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John Moore, Lamar — First premium on the best plate of straw- 

 berries. 



At the second display of fruits, premiums were awarded to the fol- 

 lowing persons : 



C. H. Fink, Lamar — First premium on peaches, first on apricots, 

 first on blackberries. 



E. Brown, Lamar — First premium on apples ; five varieties in all. 



J. Todd, Lamar — First premium on the Kittatiuny blackberry. 



Win. Morris, Lamar — First premium on early cabbage. 



Altogether the society is proud of its record for the time it has 

 been in existance. 



You will please find enclosed the names of paid up members. 



B. D. Hayes, Sec. and Treas. 

 Lamar, Mo., Nov. 27, 1889. 



DALLAS COUNTY. 



BY S. A. LATIMER, OF LONG LANE. 



If I should make this report as large as the peach crop was in 

 our county the past season, you would find it as tedious and trouble- 

 some as the crop of peaches was to us ; however, the time spent in 

 perusing it would not be lost if it proved to be as profitable as our 

 crop of peaches. 



The large crop of the past two years encourages us in the belief 

 that the long series of failures so discouraging in the past, have been 

 broken, and we may now expect better things in the future. 



Trees set two and three years ago have made a fine, healthy growth. 

 The dry weather during the fall has fully matured the young growth of 

 wood, and the outlook for young orchards was never more encourag- 

 ing for a large crop of peaches. The time has been when the peach 

 was one of our surest crops, and may it not be again ? 



I believe the secret of success lies in planting largely, if not solely 

 of home-grown seedlings. The peach is too fine a fruit to give up with- 

 out a mighty effort. Therefore, plant for home use if not for market. 



"If at first you don't succeed, 

 Try, try again." 



