372 MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



field, in the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread." We are also told to 

 turn our spears into pruning hooks. There are other passages in the 

 divine law that speaks of prunning. Therefore I think that it is right 

 to prune and if we prune with taste and good judgment we need have- 

 no fears of the result. WM. BEODBECK. 



SMALL FRUITS. 



BY N. F. MURRAY. 



This term includes grapes, goose-berries, starwberries and currants. 

 These delicacies can all be grown here with profit, and will succeed on 

 any land that will produce a fair crop of corn. Every owner of a farm 

 or good sized garden should seek to supply his own table with a variety 

 of all these healthy fruits in their season. They will grow and produce 

 such abundant crops, that it becomes a matter of economy to have a 

 constant supply on hand, and no kind of diet is more conducive to 

 good health than a free use of such fruits. And for market some of 

 these fruits will pay five to ten fold more for the labor expended in 

 their production than any farm crop, and are just as sure to give a crop 

 as corn or wheat. 



And yet how very few of our people are growing them for their 

 own use, to say nothing of supplying the market. Your own citizens 

 of Mound City are compelled to send their or orders for these fruits 

 to St. Joseph, and they are often filled with shipments from other 

 States at high prices. And your supply of canned berries and jellies 

 are most all from California and eastern States. 



