280 MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Have now growing about 2,400 apple trees, 400 peach trees and 

 plum trees, most Wild Goose ; apples mostly Ben Davis. Apples a 

 light crop this season. 



Expected to have set out two acres more strawberries the past 

 fall, but weather being too dry prevented it ; I set out about one acre, 

 expect to put out two or four acres of strawberries in the spring, also 

 four or five acres more raspberries. Our' strawberries consist mostly 

 of the following varieties: Miners, Crescent, Chas. Downing, Glen- 

 dale, Sharpless, Capitol City and Jersey Queen. Kaspberries: Sou- 

 hegan (our best early bearing) and Gregg (the best late), also have the 

 Centennial, Doolittle, Turner, Brandywine, Cuthbert and Reliance. 



Will say that I estimate that I have put over 2,000 tons of barn- 

 yard manure on about thirty-two acres of ground, and still think it will 

 pay well to keep on adding more manure. Tbat I consider another 

 item of great importance to anyone contemplating fruit growing, es- 

 l^ecially small fruit, a location near a city where manure can be pro- 

 cured. I also think from my little experience that timber land in 

 southwest Missouri is the best adapted to fruit growing. This^being my 

 first attempt at the business, also my first attempt of making any re- 

 port of my success or failure, I hope it may be looked up with a great 

 deal of allowance. I expect to be benefited the greater from the suc- 

 cesses and failures of others than from my own weaknesses. I should 

 be pleased to make a more extended acquaintance with our fruit grow- 

 ing fraternity; will say here that our latch-strihg always hangs out, and 

 would be pleased to have all interested in fruits visit our plantation 

 and will always be as glad to impart any knowledge gained from ex- 

 perience as to receive instruction from others. 



Hoping your meeting may be well attended and an interesting and 

 instructive one to all, I take pleasure in submitting to you the above 

 as the experience of a new beginner in the business. 



Yours fraternally, 



J. H. LOGAN i& SONS. 



