216 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



on the increase and many orchards will be planted this fall and winter. 

 Our county has shipped about 110 cars of apples. We are not in the 

 small fruit [business, more than enough for home use. The officers 

 are: A. Meison, President; E. B. Kellerman, Secretary. 

 Forty active members. 



HOWELL COUNTY. 



Geo. Comley. President; G. Tyler, Secretary and Treasurer. 



The South Missouri FruitGrowers Association have a good grow- 

 ing membership ; 25 at present. We hold our meetings at Willow 

 Springs, Howell county, Mo., the last Saturday of each month. We 

 discuss all questions of importance to fruit-growers and farmers. And 

 the people of our neighborhood are fast beginning to realize the neces- 

 sity of mixing more mind with their muscle, and thus make their farm 



lives more pleasant as well as profitable. 



Geo. Comley. 



NEWTON COUNTY. 



Newton Couoty Horticultural Society, organized October 5, 1895, 

 with 13 charter members. 



Officers : John M. Purdy, President, Neosho ; W. T. Bailey, Vice- 

 President, Wentworth; H. S. Sturgis, Secretary, Neosho ; F. H. Spea k 

 man, Treasurer; Geo. Hatzfeld, John Jaeger and J. M. Armstrong, Ex- 

 ecutive Committee. 



Present membership, 22. Regular meetings first Saturday of each 

 month. 



LINN COUNTY. 



We have just passed through one of the most abundant and low- 

 priced fruit seasons. The different varieties of apples, pears, peaches? 

 plums, etc., seemed to vie with each other in the matter of production. 

 Varieties known heretofore as "shy bearers" were "in it" this season. 

 Even quite young trees of such varieties as Huntsman and Lawver 

 bore a few apples. Among the varieties of apple not so well known, 

 in this section at least, which bore this season, was Stump, Mcintosh 

 Red, Bottle Greening, Mann, Allen's Choice and Gano. I think the 

 two most beautiful apples I saw during the season was Chenango 

 Strawberry, season July and August, and Mcintosh Red, season August 



