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are large say so, and let your marks tell exactly what your fruit is. 



Mr. Durand gave a highly interesting talk on evaporating of fruit 

 and thought every fruit grower should evaporate. Last year he evap- 

 orated 8,000 pounds of apples, culls, etc., and realized $800 therefrom. 

 He found the Ren Davis the best for this purpose. 



PRESENT OUTLOOK OF FRUIT GROWING. 



BY C. C. BELL, BOONVILLE, MO. 



This subject, assigned to me is so fai reaching and of so much im- 

 portance to every Horticulturist, that perhaps it should have been as- 

 signed to some one other than myself, whose time would have permitted 

 a more extended treatise than I can give at this time. 



While it may be true that from the standpoint of a wholesale fruit 

 dealer which brings me in close connection with the producer and the 

 trade, not only in this, but other states and countries, I am somewhat in a 

 position to speak of the supply and demand and the requirements of the 

 trade ; yet, to do the subject justice, I should like to refer to data and 

 figures, which, if I were in reach of my purchasing and shipping books, 

 kept during the past twelve years, I could give a more satisfactory ac- 

 count. 



But, Mr. President, I imagine you will say that I should have come 

 prepared — in this I agree with you, — and I dislike to offer this apology, 

 hut I feel you will in a measure pardon me, when I tell you that press- 

 ing business of public and other affairs have for the past two months 

 monopolized my time and thought in other channels, especially since re- 

 ceiving the secretary's program, on which I found this subject assigned 

 to me, I have been most of my time absent from home. 



However since my arrival here, and meeting with some of the best 

 informed, and rnost earnest Horticultural workers in this state, and list- 



