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Large boxes or barrels may be sent by express and the charges 

 guaranteed, which will be paid here. 



Very respectfully, 

 H. E. VANDEMAN, NORMAN J. COLMAN, 



Pomologist. Commissioner. 



HOW THE LOCAL PRESS MAY ASSIST THE HORTICUL- 

 TURIST. 



J. M. HASNESS, MOUND CITY. 



Mr. President and Ladies and Gentlemen of the State Horticnlttiral 

 Society : 



In looking over the length of the program arranged for this session, 

 and knowing that although the spirit might be willing, the flesh is weak 

 and in need of rest and refreshments, which we learn the good people of 

 the Orchard City have prepared for our entertainment, I hope you will 

 consider the few suggestions I may offer, not in the light of an ex- 

 haustive paper, but simply as a few hints thrown out. The subject 

 given me by your committee on program, is : "How the Local Press 

 May Assist the Horticulturist." The time has come in the history of 

 horticulture in our state, as well as in many others, when it is no longer 

 a small thing and to be despised, but on the contrary, it is one of the 

 great sources of our wealth, and stands along side of agriculture and 

 stock-raising. Thirty years ago the great Missouri Valley and the 

 country west, then undeveloped, depended upon the states east of us for 

 fruit. Prices were in consequence high, and fruit was a luxury afforded 

 by few. To-day the state of Missouri not only produces her own fruit, 

 but largely in excess of the home demand, and much of her fruit goes 

 back to the same territory that formerly supplied us. No better fruit 



