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outlets for all of our products. This year (at my own station, King 

 City,) there were shipped about 20 carloads of apples, and this year's 

 crop was about one-half short and there are hundreds of young- orchards 

 in the county which will soon come into bearing. The prices realized 

 were from 35 to 40 cts. per bushel. 



From the above report you will see that this county is finely adapted 

 to the raising of all the leading varieties of fruit, with a soil unexcelled 

 in fertility in the State, and with good transportation facilities to sec- 

 tions of the country that cannot raise fruit, or raise it successfully, the 

 fruit business is bound to become an important factor in the county. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Norman C. Shultz. 



WAYNE COUNTY. 



Piedmont, November 23, 1889. 

 Mr. L. A. Goodman, Secretary Missouri Horticultural Society : 



Dear Sir — Having been applied to for a report from this county 

 in regard to fruit growing and its interests, I make the following brief 

 report. 



This county is situated on the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & South- 

 ern railroad, and is from 120 to 140 miles south of St. Louis, and the 

 second county north of the Arkansas line, and the third county west 

 of the Mississippi river. The county is traversed from the north to the 

 south by the Black and the St. Francois rivers, and is well supplied in 

 all parts by living creeks of different sizes. 



The lands between the creeks are undulating, and in places quite 

 hilly, that is or has been covered with a growth "of timber, such as oak, 

 hickory and pine. 



The soil is clay and clay-loam with sand in the bottoms. The up- 

 lands are well adapted to all kinds of fruits, both large and small. 



There has been but little commercial planting done yet, but 

 the planting for family use is getting to be quite extensive, and is 

 growing larger every year. There is no doubt but that fruit-raising 

 could be made profitable as soon as enough went into the business 

 that they could get transportation that would justify. As it is there 

 was peaches shipped from here last summer to Central Illinois that 

 paid a good profit. 



All the different varieties of the different fruits that are adapted 

 to Southern Missouri that have been tried here do well. The writer 



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