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as keeping poultry or raising small fruits. And yet a large class who 

 pronounce these products as unprofitable manage them after this plan. 

 Even if they are not raised especially for market there ought to be 

 on every farm a full supply of all kinds of fruit and a sufficient number 

 of poultry to furnish a full supply of eggs and fowls for family use, and 

 they should receive careful attention, so that good results can be se- 

 cured. Better never than to neglect, and yet this can hardly be afforded. 

 They ought to be considered as necessaries and as such can be raised on 

 the farm cheaper and of a better quality, all things considered, than they 

 can be purchased. 



THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 8 P. M. 



EVENING SESSION 



was opened by the committee on ' Fruit Show" making the following 

 report, which was adopted: 



In view of the f.ict that the State of Missouri has at this time of the 

 year a good prospect for a good crop' of good apples ; and that from 

 some place or places within the statc,''there is almost a certainty that a 

 good show of our fruit can be made this fall, and of the further fact that 

 Mr. Johnson, Secretary of the coming Exposition at St. Louis, has 

 offered the very best part of their great building as a place in which to 

 exhibit the horticultural products of' Missouri, your committee would 

 recommend : 



That we make at the Exposition at St. Louis, this fall, the best 

 possible show of the horticultural and floral products of the State. 



That the State Society invito the county and local societies to 

 assist and co-operate with the State Society in preparing and making 

 the exhibit. 



That county courts be requested to appropriate the money necessary 

 to defray part or all of the expenses of exhibiting the products of their 

 respective countie.^. 



