358 MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



it takes to produce best quality of certain varieties. AYe must have 

 varieties that will adapt to the soil we are going to plant on. I have 

 seen McAfee Eed on rich limestone timber land that was first-class in 

 every respect, and to plant it on sandstone prairie is worthless, and so I 

 could run on through a long list of varieties. 



E. Liston. 



CEAWFOBD COUNTY. 



Fruit growing in Crawford county has not received the attention 

 in past years that it deserved. Grain and stock-growing have received 

 the greater attention while the high rates of transportation offer no in- 

 ducements for the growing of fruits for shipping other than winter 

 apples. While the small fruits yield reasonably well where cultivated, 

 they are at present grown only in a small way for family use and home 

 demand. 



High freight rates and rot made grape-growing unprofitable, hence 

 the vineyards are all plowed up. 



Peach, plum and cherries are grown only for home use, and they 

 mostly of the common varieties. The trees grow very vigorously and 

 are generally very productive. This is especially so of the Chickasaw 

 plum and the sour cherries of which we have not had a failure for sev- 

 eral years. This year cherries were so abundant they were scarcely 

 worth picking, and large quantities were left on the trees for the birds. 

 Pears grow very vigorously and are very productive. The dwarfs espe- 

 cially produce heavy crops of very fine fruit. The blight has affected 

 them very slightly for the past eight years. I have never found a dwarf 

 pear troubled with round or flat head borer and rarely find them troubled 

 with insects of any kind, and it seems that the pear might be grown 

 here at a good profit. 



Apple growing is beginning to receive considerable attention, and 

 where the orchards have received the most attention, I think it has 

 generally proven profitable. The varieties mostly planted are Ben Davis, 

 Winesap, Jonathan and Eome Beauty, with Ben Davis more largely 

 than all others. Apple planting is increasing each year at least twenty- 

 five per cent, and it will be but a short time ere the fruit from this sec- 

 tion will more receive the attention of buyers. The cultivation con- 

 sists 1st, the major part, who grow weeds and grass in their orchards. 

 2d, a small portion who grow small grain ; 3d, the balance who culti- 

 vate with no crop. The apples are grown mostly on uplands. The trees 

 do not make such dense, rank growth, hence the fruit colors up very 



