MISSOURI STATt: IIORTICUI- TUU \L SOCIETY. 



Present crop of peaches is expected to brini;' $2,000, last year $500 

 — $2,500 for peaches alone — thus by inter-plantiiiL^ with peach, that 

 fruit alone in first and second crop will have paid for the land at $100 

 per acre. For all other fruit trees and for all labor and material 

 in fencintj^, plantint^ and cultivatini^'. Were the peach trees cut out now 

 the ten acres would remain a valuable youny;, thrifty, growing orchard 

 of apple, plum, cherry and ciuince, nothing worse in health or size from 

 contiguity with the i)each. One mistake our friend has made — he planted 

 his orchard within the corporate limits of Springfield, which has grownup 

 to and around his orchard so as to induce him to plat it into fifty foot 

 lots which go on the market when the peaches, plums and cherries are 

 off, and will sell, as some of it is already sold at $10 per front foot. In 

 all the peach orchard are thirty-two lots — $1,600 — the actual profits on 

 1,000 peach trees in five years, for the peaches paid for it all. 



D. S. H. 



St. Joseph, Mo., June, 1888. 

 /-. A. Goodman, Esq.y Secretary Missouri State Horticultural Society, 



Dear Sir: — The programme of the semi-annual meeting at Oregon, 

 Holt county, came to hand and I find myself listed to talk cider and how 

 to make it. 



CIDER. 



It is sweet cider the people want, not the fermented or poisonous 

 stuff that has passed through the cider worm of the still, for from the 

 time it comes forth until it empties into hell and death, it is the cause of 

 crime and dishonor, and is demoralizing to everything it touches ; it 

 would then be classed with the alcoholic drinks that are the source of all 

 the moral wrecks, that are on this side the stream of death ; of suicide 

 and insanity, of poverty and destruction, of weeping children and des- 

 pairing mothers and wives asking for bread. Such drink destroys rea- 

 son, chokes genius, fill our jails and asylums, furnishes victims for the 

 scaffold, cuts down youth and manhood ; it breaks the fathers' heart, 

 bereaves the mother, erases love, blights hope, brings premature age in 

 sorrow to the grave ;,it makes wives widows, children orphans ; fathers, 

 friends and all, paupers. Don't touch it, shun it as a viper. 



