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Missouri Agricultural Report. 



Missouri State Board of Horticulture. 



OFP^ICERS. 



President — Richard Dalton, Saverton. 

 Vice-President — D. A. Turner, Sr., St. Joseph. 

 Second Vice-President — J. C. Evans, Olden. 

 Treasurer — W. T. Flournoy, Marionville. 

 Secretary — John Bland, Columbia. 



SOME WORK OF THE YEAR 1912. 



(Ashleigh P. Boles, Secretary.) 



The season of 1912 was, on the whole, a most profitable one to 



the fruit grower. Many orchards in. the 

 State, it is true, did not return a profitable 

 yield; but they were in nearly every in- 

 stance neglected orchards and not in the 

 hands of growers who depended on them 

 for a livelihood. 



In apple growing the necessity of 

 spraying was most forcibly demonstrated. 

 In South Missouri few unsprayed orchards 

 bore any merchantable apples, and sprayed 

 orchards bore a maximum yield. 



Nearly all districts adjacent to markets 

 accessible to Missouri growers produced a 

 maximum yield of apples, and in addition 

 to this the western and northwestern growers shipped to these 

 same markets several times as many apples as they had in any 

 preceding year. It appears that these western growers did not 

 consider local competition in placing their fruit, as they had de- 

 pended in the past on the superior quality of their pack reaching 



Ashleigh P. Boles. 



