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Your couimittee find on the tables seventy-nine plates apples, rep- 

 resenting almost that number of varieties, in a fine state of preserva- 

 tion, some one, and others, we are told, are two years old. This, to 

 your committee, is matter of wonder and pleasure, and evinces the 

 very fine success our secretary has attained in his efforts at preserving 

 these fruits on experiment with cold storage. 



Your committee might report comparison of varieties, but pass to 

 mention one plate Jonathan, sent in from Oregon, Mo., kept in an ord- 

 inary cellar. It is very fine, and remarkably sound for an apple of its 

 season. 



We also find i)late8 of Lawver and Janet, kept in ordinary cellar 

 in Montgomery county, grown and presented here by Mr. Lionberger, 

 chairman of this committee, who declines to say anything of his own 

 products, but the other two on the committee are pleased to say that 

 these specimens are fine and well preserved in soundness, color and 

 weight. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



F. LIONBERGER, 

 WM. KAUFMAN, 

 D. S. HOLMAN. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON FINAL RESOLUTIONS. 



1st. Resolved, That the thanks of this society are due and hereby 

 tendered to the following railroad companies for reduced rates and 

 other courtecies granted the members and friends of the society in 

 their attendance at the third semi-annual meeting at Louisiana, June 8 

 and 9, 1886, namely: 



The Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific ; the Hannibal & St. Joseph ; the 

 Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluff; the Chicago & Alton ; the 

 St. Louis, Keokuk & Northwestern ; the Chicago, Burlington & Kansas 

 City ; the Missouri Pacific system ; the St. Louis & San Francisco ; 

 the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Gulf and the Chicago, Rock Island & 

 Pacific. 



