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been principall)-. in the West, in Kansas and Colorado, and North as far 

 as Kansas City and St. Joe, but very little has gone as far North as to 

 reach Iowa. Are we to conclude that this state of things will continue in 

 the future.-* Shall we continue to plant with reference to supplying our 

 own latitude and climate only.-* Or shall we plant expecting to feed our 

 neighbors four, five or six hundred miles to the north or northwest of us."* 

 And if we find difficulties in the way by reason of bad connections, too 

 high rates or any other obstructions, however numerous or great, shall 

 we abandon the effort.^ Or shall we rise to the importance of the occas- 

 ion and by massing the forces of all our Southwestern fruit growers, pro- 

 ceed to removing every obstacle we find in the way, and go in and pos- 

 sess the land.'' 



Our market for apples also in the past has principally been in the 

 South and Southwest. Very little of this crop has gone to the North 

 and Northwest. Is this the best and only thing we can do with our 

 apple crop of Southwestern Missouri ? 



Is it not a fact that our Red June and Early Harvest apples ripen 

 from four to five or six weeks before the same varieties do in Michigan, 

 Northern Illinois and Ohio, and with equal facilities can we not place 

 these apples on the markets in Iowa, Minnesota and Dakota and have 

 our entire crop disposed of before Michigan can get her apples on to 

 those markets.-* And is not the same true of the Maiden Blush, the 

 Lowell, the Golden Sweet, and other varieties that ripen and fall to the 

 ground during our long summer and go to decay and are lost, which 

 might be gathered early and shipped in refrigerator cars and sold from 

 cold storage on the markets in Minnesota and Dakota to supply the 

 October and November market. 



Is it possible that this Southwest Missouri with all her possibilities 

 for fruit growing has no mission of usefulness in the way of feeding the 

 hungry millions of the great Northwest as well as the South and South- 

 west .-* We believe that in the near future we shall find that we have 

 not planted enough early summer and fall apples to supply the great 

 markets that shall soon be opened to us in this vast extent of rapidly 

 developing Northwestern country, and that there will be a necessity for a 

 re-adaptation for our orchard planting to adjust our fruit growing to a 

 great market that wants something besides the Ben Davis. 



A. Nelson^ Lebanon, then read a paper on " Orcharding on the 

 Ozarks." He had cleared two farms in York state and was free to say 

 he had made no mistake in coming to Southwest Missouri. For gen- 

 eral fruit-growing the Ozarks and Southwest Missouri in his opinion, 

 stood at the head as a fruit-growing section. An elevated soil north 



