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ful end ; one which is willing and anxious to use a thousand and one new 

 facts which are being made known every year. The business of the 

 society has prospered since last we met and the outlook is brighter this 

 year than before. The prospect for our apple crop is the best we have 

 had for years and our horticultural interests should take a good growth ; 

 we should have a number of horticultural societies formed this summer in 

 some of our best counties, and the facts of successful orcharding kept 

 prominentl}' before our people. 



The importance of bringing out more of our fruit growers, and get- 

 ting them to believe and practice what we say, urging them to give us 

 their experience, to tell us what they have done and how they have done 

 it, and give us the reason of their success or failure, seems to me one 

 of the most important matters we can jDresent to your consideration. 



OUR REPORT. 



Published some weeks since is a great help in awakening an interest in 

 our work ; the call comes every day from all over our state for copies of 

 the work and oftimes gives some interesting fact, or some item of ex- 

 perience. Less time was taken in issuing our report this year than be- 

 fore, and we trust that we can soon have matters so arranged that we 

 can print immediately after our winter meeting. The call for the re- 

 port outside the state continues to grow and many hundreds of copies 

 have to be mailed to parties who never even think of enclosing stamps 

 for the same. Another year it may be necessary to ask for an increase 

 of the number of books published in order to supply the demand. 



FRUIT STATISTICS. 



It seems almost impossible for us to obtain, or even undertake, yet 

 it would it seem this year that we should have some direct work and in- 

 formation in regard to the amount grown and sold. A combination 

 with our State Board of Agriculture and a report from all their members 

 as well as our own, would give a very good report and a correct one of the 

 value of our fruit crop. Missouri has made no great noise or fuss about 

 what we are doing, but silently and quietly our orchards have been planted 

 and we do not realize just how much we have done as a state in the pror 

 gress of this work. It would a-tonish you to go about the state and see 

 the many thousands of orchards planted, being planted, and just beginning 

 to bear. While others are doing a great deal of talking, we have been 

 quietly and surely planting and the result will be, and is being felt, so much 

 so that I am surprised wherever I go, I see so many new orchards covering 



