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bination of fruit shipping factors can be no less than those of 

 legitimate commercial and industrial combinations so prevalent 

 throughout the business world of today. 



That the State of Missouri offers great opportunity for the 

 development of co-operation among fruit producers is evident 

 to your Board of Horticulture, whose efforts to promote local 

 and state-wide organization of those .interests are warranting 

 heartiest and substantial support. 



THE MISSOURI ORCHARD CENSUS. 



(John Bland, Secretary State Board of Horticulture.) 



The orchard census of the State of Missouri was taken by 

 the State Board of Horticulture in the years 1912 and 1913. 



This census was obtained by canvassers working under the 

 direction of district supervisors. Each fruit grower was vis- 

 ited by a canvasser. A report of this census will be found in 

 the seventh annual report of the State Board of Horticulture. 

 This includes the names of 16,705 fruit growers, with data as 

 to the size and character of their fruit plantings, acreage of 

 apple orchard, acreage of each variety of apples, acreage of 

 each kind of other fruits, whether or not the grower sprays, 

 the age of his apple orchard, and the exact location of his farm 

 in the county. Each of ninety counties is mapped separately. 

 Each grower has a number on a map, placed in a position to 

 correspond to the location of his orchard in the county. A 

 number corresponds to a grower's name and will be found 

 attached to it along with the other figures showing the char- 

 acter of his plantations. 



This report includes, also, five large maps, showing the 

 comparative importance of the different kinds of fruit in the 

 different parts of the State, and twenty-four maps showing 

 comparative data of different sorts in the counties of the State. 



This orchard census is the first of its kind taken in the 

 United States, and represents the expenditure of a great amount 

 of money. The purpose in taking it was simply to place the 

 fruit growers of the State in touch with the Board of Horti- 

 culture so that the Board's service could be extended as far 

 as possible. 



The following table gives statistics for the various counties 

 of the State. Excepting in a few counties no orchard less than 

 two acres in size was listed, so that these figures are from com- 

 mercial orchards only: 



