Missouri State Board of Horticulture. 



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great need of associations in Missouri lies in the fruit district 

 of the Missouri valley, rather than in the Ozarks, where there 

 are now a great number of effective associations. Our problem 

 at this meeting is one then that involves Missouri river vaHey 

 growers primarily, and we are glad to have here gentlemen 

 whose experience in this same district fits you to be of greatest 

 help to us in Missouri. 



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lu the land of the loess soil. View of vineyard and hills. 



Before going into the explanation of what is proposed to 

 be done, I want to call your attention to the Missouri river 

 fruit district, the district producing more apples at the present 

 time than any other district in the world. That is, as compared 

 to districts that are "units" of territory. 



Who knows what this district is? Few people indeed. Why 

 is this? Simply for the reason that it has lost its identity by 

 being cut into four pieces — quartered, as it were — by the state 

 lines of Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri; and its apple 

 production, instead of being known as that of the Missouri 

 river district, is known to the world only as the apple produc- 

 tion of the great apple states of Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and 

 Missouri. Why, do you know that three-fourths of the apples 

 raised in these four states are raised in the little district that 



