378 MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



By making a combined effort the rates were reduced about 20 per 

 cent, all of which goes to show if you want anything of a transporta- 

 tion company do not be backward in asking for it ; and a good way to 

 do is, as soon as one request is granted, to turn right around and ask 

 another. There is not the slightest fear in the v ord that they will 

 grant more than they can afford to. 



J. G. Kinder, Secretary. 



PIKE COUNTY. 



Mr. L. A. Goodman, Westport Mo. : 



Dear Sir: Your postal of the 9th inst. at hand, also the reports 

 came to-day, for which please accept our thanks. We have glanced 

 over the report hastily, and it contains many good things, a little chaff 

 of course, but that is to be expected in all things, as there are some that 

 know but little that will talk. The fruit show was a grand success, and 

 it should be productive of much good for the State. However, the 

 printing of a thousand or two reports is but a drop in the bucket to 

 what might be done. If the reports could be printed in hundred thou- 

 sand lots and scattered broad- cast over the East, the effect could readily 

 be told by the emigration it would bring, especially of the better class' 

 just what we need and not the refuse of Europe. 



The State Society is doing a great deal of good, but if the means 

 were at hand, ten thousand times as much good might be done with the 

 same effort. Scattering these reports is on the same principle as adver- 

 tising. An advertisement run a few times in a few papers does a little 

 good, but barely perceptible. However, run the same ad. in hundreds 

 of papers scattered all over the land, and follow up with catalogue and 

 circulars, etc., sending them out by the thousands, then you can readily 

 see that it pays. 



I would like to see the matter properly brought before the Legis- 

 lature, and now as we have a wide-awake and enterprising Governor, a 

 man up to the times, think he would be willing to make a recommenda- 

 tion to the Legislature in favor of a good-sized appropriation for 

 advertising the State, and what better advertisement could the State 

 make than its horticultural resources ? 



I regret very much that our business has caused me to miss several 

 of our meetings. The last meeting and the Nurserymen's Protective 

 Association came at the same time, so that I could not attend both, and 

 believing that our interests were in Chicago, went there. 



