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the advantage in the climate, but where there is an advantage in one 

 thing there is a disadvantage in something else. Holt County is hard 

 to beat for good apples and fine babies. I am sitting under the boughs 

 and beautiful blossoms of the apple tree while writing this. I wi.sh every 

 reader of this paper could see with my eyes the beauty of these trees 

 while dressed in nature's full bloom, and breathe the air that is with their 

 fragrance filled. "The learned is happy nature to explore; the fool is 

 happy that he knows no more." — Pope. 



WM. BRODBECK. 



FRUITS OF HOLT COUNTY, MISSOURI. 



It would require a large volume to describe in detail the fruits of 

 Holt County, but this article will simply give the names of the prin- 

 cipal fruits, without going into details, 



STRAWBERRIES 



Find this country to be their home. In fact, there are but few families 

 that do not have an abundance of this fruit. They give quick returns, 

 as you can put them out in the spring and the following spring you can 

 have nice crop of this fruit, or you can put them out in the early fall 

 and have the next spring a good crop of this tempting and delicious 

 fruit. 



The varieties cultivated here are legion, but I will name a few 

 out of the many that might be named : Sharpless, Capt. Jack, Crescent 

 Downing, Jesse, Bubach No. 5, Lida. Sucker State, Gaudies' Seedling 

 Prize, Bidwell, May King, Jersey Queen and many others. No man's 

 cultivation of fruit can be complete without the strawberry. They 

 ripen first of all the fruits, unless it is the dewberry. They are followed 

 by the raspberry, and then comes the blackberry. 



APPLES. 



Apples have been raised in this county almost from its settle- 

 ment. Some of the earlier settlers brought seed with them from the 



