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for the benefit of the public. Six years ago he made an attempt to get 

 some aid from the state Legislature to carry on this work, but did not 

 succeed. 



If such aid could be obtained the service could be made useful to 

 the state. Not only should climate be studied, but we should do some- 

 thing to develop a system of local storm warnings. When patents on 

 telephones expire, as they will in a few years, and they become less 

 costly, farm houses can be connected with town, and the different towns 

 in a section of state connected. It will then be quite possible to de- 

 velop such a system. 



• Major F. Holsingcr, Secretary Missouri Valley Horticultural So- 

 ciety, Rosedale, Kan., thought the exhibit of iruits showed conclusively 

 which of the counties in the state had progressive horticultural societies. 

 The novice will often select large, overgrown, imperfect specimens. The 

 collection was, on the whole, very fine, and Missouri is undoubtedly the 

 finest fruit state in the union, especially for apples. We in Kansas, he 

 said, cannot compete with you No state in the union has such general 

 advantages as a fruit state, and this display will do much to advertise 

 that fact. 



The $30,000 spent by Kansas a few years ago in making a display 

 of her products resulted in adding over 100,000 to her population. Mis- 

 souri is a better state than Kansas to live in. 



Prof. L. H. Pammel. of the Shaw School of Botany, spoke of the 

 cotton blight which he had been investigating in Texas during the sum- 

 mer. As this blight, which to him, seemed to be caused by a fungus, 

 seemed also to affect fruit trees and plants, it would be a matter of in- 

 terest to horticulturists to know something of it. 



Mr. N. F. Murray, Vice-President Missouri Horticultural Society, 

 Elm Grove, Mo., commented on Prof Nipher's remarks, and said there 

 was more in the matter than we might at first think. There was no 

 question in his mind as to the value to be derived from an efficient 

 weather service but we know how difficult it is to get our legislators to 

 see this. 



He lost $300 worth of celery one season, by frost, on the 17th of 

 October, which he could have saved, had he had twenty-four hours no- 

 tice of the fall in temperature. Major Holsingcr has just told us how 

 Kansas made money by spending money to advertise her advantages. 

 Missouri could spend money in similar ways to a good purpose. 



Judge Samuel Miller, of Bluffton, Missouri, said, that when the idea 

 of making a show of Mis.souri fruits was suggested to him, he thought 



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