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Of the different varieties of fruits displayed the following were 

 most popular in the order named : 



Apples — Jonathan, Gano, 13en Davis, York and Winesap. 



Peaches — Elberta, Buck, Old Mixon, Salway, Champion and 

 Family Favorite. 



Pears — Keiffer, Bartlett, Duchess. 



Grapes — Concord, Worden, Moore's Early, Niagara and Newton's 

 Virginia, 



Strawberries — Warfield, Crescent, Haverland, Bubach, Jessie and 

 Parker Earl. 



Plums — Burbank, Wild Goose and Damson. 



The cost of the display was $51,667.20. The horticultural board, 

 consisting of Hon. L. A. Goodman, C. H. Dutcher, W. G. Gano, W. 

 P. Flournoy and J. C. Whitten, deserve a great deal of credit for the 

 beautiful Missouri exhibit. 



Missouri in Comparison.' — Missouri easily outranked the other 

 Louisiana Purchase states. She more than held her own with Cali- 

 fornia, outranking her in variety. But there was one state display 

 which ought to have furnislied food for thought to all of the fertile 

 •states of the Mississippi valley, and that state was Connecticut. The 

 Connecticut display consisted entirely of pictures exploiting the beauty 

 and perfection of the state's landscape gardening and park making. 

 The lesson taught by the Connecticut exhibit, namely, the art and 

 the necessit}^ of doing things well, will one day be learned in this 

 section; and when it is learned there will not be a bare nor an ugly 

 spot in afl Missouri's 69,700 square miles. 



COTTON, 



Missouri Cotton. — That the quality of the cotton grown in Mis- 

 souri is of the very best is proved by the fact that the only bale of 

 Missouri cotton exhibited received a grand prize for its high standard 

 •of excellence. The exhibit was made by Mr. W. N. Burns, of Gibson, 

 Dunklin county. 



The State produced in 1904, on 74,988 acres, a total yield of 24,- 

 451,690 pounds of lint cotton, valued at $2,272,660. Dunklin county 

 produced 60 per cent of the total for the State. It may not be gener- 

 ally known, but it is true, nevertheless, that in quality and length of 

 fiber and average yield per acre, Southeast Missouri excels the other 

 states of the Union. 



For list of awards in horticulture see report of Missouri Com- 

 mission on another page. 



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