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work. The leaven of cooperation is working, and after a little the 

 whole State will rise to the occasion, and adjoining states will act 

 with us. 



By co-operation we can send agents into the great Northwest and 

 into the far South, where apples are not grown. Practically this will 

 cost us nothing, as the saving in commission will pay the agents' ex- 

 penses. Commission men who can handle fruit in car-load lots, will 

 charge less than if doing business with a hundred men. There are 

 millions of Americans who have never tasted our Ben Davis, or our 

 berries, who would buy them if they were for sale in their town. 

 There are millions in other countries who want American apples. 

 With organization the demand can be increased ten fold 5 yes, twenty- 

 fold. A good, strong society can do wonders; with a hundred or 

 more of such societies, the full measure of our hopes could be realized. 



Eeasonable transportation rates can be secured by the coopera- 

 tion of fruit-growers. The railroads will listen to the petition of a 

 strong society, when it would not hear an individual. 



Boxes, barrels and fertilizers should be bought by wholesale by 

 each association. Sarcoxie growers have purchased their crates — 

 150,000 of them — for next season's use — $8000 worth. When their 

 berries are ripening at the rate of ten car-loads a day, they will not 

 have to be bothered about getting boxes. They are ready for taking 

 care of the 100 carloads they are sure to pick. Thanks to co-opera- 

 tion. There is much more that might be affected by cooperation. 

 Neighbors can unite in building cold storage houses, in buying spray- 

 ing outfits and in procuring many other supplies. 



Every horticulturist should co-operate to secure horticultural edu- 

 cation for our youth, to work in every way to elevate the delightful, 

 the noble calling of producing the best, the most beautiful products of 

 the orchard, field and garden. Another thing co-operation will do — it 

 will elevate the profession of horticulture and of agriculture, the 

 noblest calling, as Washington declared ; it will bring men to have a 

 greater respect for themselves and for their work. 



This winter is the time to organize, and this society should en- 

 courage this movement. G. A. Atwood, Springfield, Mo. 



Thursday, December 5 — 2 p. m. 



After considerable discussion on the subject of co-operation in 

 transportation, Mr. Rice proposed the following resolution, which was 

 adopted : 



