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a District Fair, which is now the main subject in hand by the associa- 

 tion, and judging- from the success which has attended the association 

 from its organization, we may look for the district fair to be held at 

 Boonville next fall. Kespectfully, 



Dec. 9, 1886. CHARLES C. BELL, Secretary. 



REPORT OF JASPER COUi^TY SOCIETY. 



Z, T. RUSSELL, SECRETARY, CARTHAGE. 



To the President and Members Missouri Horticultural Society: 



Gentlemen : As secretary of the Jasper county society, I have 

 the following brief report to make : 



During the last year this society has held meetings each mouth, 

 at which questions of interest to the members have been discussed 

 freely by all persons present, the discussions usually assum^ig more of 

 an informal character than otherwise. 



At the beginning of this year and for two or three years past the 

 meetings were held on Tuesday, but in the early part of this year the 

 time was changed to the tirst Saturday in each month. The meetings 

 were usually held at 2 p. m. in the city of Carthage. 



Another change, which, it is thought, has been for the better, was 

 the charging of a membership fee of $1.00 per year instead of none, as 

 heretofore. This enables us to meet little expenses and to have some 

 cash on hand, instead of an empty treasury. And I believe, too, that 

 a livelier interest is manifiested than when there was no fee. A per- 

 son naturally prizes anything more or less highly according to its cost. 



At the January meeting we had a valued visitor with us in the 

 person of Mr. Levi Chubbuck, associate editor of Colman's Rural 

 World, St. Louis, who read an able paper upon the subject of "The 

 benefits to be derived from the work of a horticultural societ;^." 



Of the crops in this county this summer I shall say little. All of 

 the small fruits were cut short more or less by the drouth — strawber- 



