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that your deliberations may be as satisfactory and pleasant to yourselves 

 as we are sure they will be instructive and edifying to us, again in the 

 name of the Holt County Horticultural Society, and in the name of the 

 citizens of Oregon. I bid )ou a sincere, hearty welcome to our midst, and 

 cheerfully extend to you the freedom of our municipality. 



President Evans, in behalf of the State Society, responded in the 

 following brief and terse language : 



Your Honor ^ the Mayor and Citizens of Oregon: 



It gives me much pleasure at this time and in behalf of the Mis- 

 souri Horticultural Society, to say that I thank you for this most hearty 

 welcome. We have not only heard your words of welcome ; but, sir, 

 we see on every hand acts and demonstrations of the good people here 

 that say "welcome." We have come to your beautiful and prosperous 

 city in the great Northwest of Missouri in the Loess Hills of the famous 

 Platte Purchase, famous once for the Indian and the game he hunted, 

 famous now for its good people and their surroundings, and as a 

 part of the great Northern Fruit Belt of Missouri. We come as mem- 

 bers of Horticultural Society, representing all sections of a great and 

 well diversified state. We come to exchange ideas with your people 

 that we may learn of each other how better to advance and develop 

 the interests of our calling. When we decided to come to Oregon to 

 hold a meeting we thought it might work a hardship on those living in 

 the east and south of the state, but realizing the great and growing im- 

 portance of your section as a fruit growing region, we could not long 

 hesitate to come. 



Again thanking you for this most cordial welcome, let us strive 

 together to make our meeting profitable to us all. 



"Come With the Rise of the Lark" was rendered by the Choral 

 Union. 



Secretary Goodman announced that the government having appro- 

 priated $15,000 for the establishment of experimental stations, and that 

 the sum was now ready to be drawn upon, announced the following 

 committees : 



Experimental Station. — Messrs. D. S Holman, C. C. Bell, N. F. 

 Murray, C. W. Murtfeldt antl Dr. Goslin. 



Fruit Exhibit at St. Louis. — Messrs. W. R. Laughlin, J. A. Durkes, 

 A. Ambrose. 



Final Resolutions. — Messrs. C. W. Murtfeldt, Charles Patterson, S. 

 W. Gilbert. 



