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With cold Storages, such fruits as grapes, pears, and apples might 

 be held for months in almost perfect condition. Grapes last fall would 

 not net the grower i cent per pound. To-day the same fruit is selling on 

 our streets at eight or ten times that amount, shipped from the cold 

 storage rooms on the shores of Lake Erie to Southwest Missouri. After 

 March ist, Jonathan apples that would not bring 25 cents per bushel at 

 picking time could be held in perfect condition and sold at this time, for 

 three or four times as much. Illustrations could be added indefinitely, 

 proving that the time is not far distant when communities that do not 

 supply themselves with all these preservative appliances for the care of 

 fruits, will be driven out of the business by those who do. ".The world 

 do move." This is an unfortunate circumstance to some but to the 

 wide-a-wake horticulturists, it is just as he would have it. I trust the 

 Rural World, with its extensive acquaintance with those best qualified 

 to instruct us on this most important subject, will invite discussion on it, 

 and help to usher in this new dispensation in the fruit industry of Mis- 

 souri. 



J. G. KINDER. 



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BY CriAS. PATTERSON, KIRKSVILLE, MO. 



Again, for the third time, I attended both these meetings, with the 

 greatest satisfaction, and think they might as well enroll me for a life 

 membership, unless they should conclude to go away out of my reach. 

 I am well enough satisfied not to be a regularly appointed delegate as it 

 leavts me under no special obligation to give a synopsis of their proceed- 

 ings, which, as I could make it, would probably be still more uninterest- 

 ing than a rambling report like this. 



