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If the County Court assisted in paying the expense, as our court 

 cheerfully did, every man, woman and child in the county will receive 

 directly or indirectly some equivalent benefit. In much of Missouri 

 we are agricultural and horticultural people, and the forces that build 

 us up are the forces that make us a bright star in the galaxy of states. 

 If we set these forces to work all over the State, we are doing, as a 

 society, one needful thing to help men to pay their debts and accumu- 

 late a competency. 



Better show us the road to prosperity than the road to poverty. 

 Better encourage the industrious, and teach people to get returns from 

 honest labor than to scheme for a living. I know that these exhibits 

 aid the worthy and build up the hopes of the deserving. 



In our county every thoughtful man expressed himself happily 

 surprised at the good results and voluntarily promised their co-opera- 

 tion in the future. There are merchants and business men in every 

 county of this State who will unite with the fruit-growers and assist 

 in getting up such an exhibit. Take it in your own hands and you will 

 like it better than a fair, which is conducted on the modern style. Yon 

 will soon learn what is necessary to make them a success. Let us 

 welcome among us all such blessings to which no sorrow is added. 

 They strengthen the industrial avenues of life. 



We may not think we could compete for a prize at Chicago or St. 

 Louis, but there is no county in Missouri too poor in resources to have 

 a creditable- exhibit of its own products, and for its own people. You 

 will be proud of what you can accomplish. 



The ladies in our county superintended some departments and 



kept all the book entries. They made a creditable display of jellies, 



preserves, canned fruits, wines and fruits, and expressed themselves 



satisfied in every way. You may include the products of the garden, 



orchard, farm and dairy, if you wish. The way to have faith in the 



Tirtues of these things is to give them a fair trial and see the results 



for yourself and you will believe. 



G. B. Lamm. Sedalia. 



Co-operation. 



Our Association has been favored with excellent papers on how 

 to raise fruits, not only at this meeting, but at all the meetings this 

 Association has held since its organization. Largely through the in- 

 fluence of these able and delightful addresses by enthusiastic horti- 

 culturists thousands of acres of Missouri woodlands and prairie have 

 been planted to fruit trees and vines by old settlers and new comers, 



