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AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
There is a wonderful fruit interest springing up all through Southern 
Missouri, a large portion of which is admirably adapted to fruit growing, as 
good land can be had near railroads at from two to ten dollars per acre, and 
in some places by taking several thousand acres it can be had at seventy-five 
cents per acre. While some of it is underlaid with minerals, a large portion of 
it is excellent for fruit growing and stock raising, the country is very healthy, 
the climate mild, winters short and water plenty and pure. 
Cow peas thrive here and should be grown to add humus to the soil. It 
seems from our experience that cow peas are the thing for Southern Missouri 
and red clover for Northern Missouri. 
The apple crop of 1899 is variously estimated at from one-fourth to one-half 
a crop for the State, but. putting all reports together we believe one-third of 
an average crop is about correct. 
The value of the fruit crop of the State will run from eight to twenty million 
dollars annually. It is mostly sold in the fresh slate as prices are too high to 
pay to evaporate in general, although there are some sections where, owing to 
high express charges and the perishable nature of some of the fruits, it pays 
to evaporate and can, and the interest in these two lines is growing rapidly. 
The unusual damage of last winter was not so much from the low tempera- 
ture as from the soft unmatured condition of trees and plants when the winter 
set in, and both together were too much for nearly all varieties when growing 
in exposed places. 
NEBRASKA. 
F. W. TAYLOR, LINCOLN, CHAIRMAN. 
REPORT BY G. A. MARSHALL, ARLINGTON. 
The clay, timbered hills of the eastern part of the State, and the canyon 
lands of Western Nebraska are best for raspberries and blackberries unless 
the land is under irrigation. Good orchard land in Eastern Nebraska is worth 
from forty to sixty dollars per acre, while bearing orchards bring from one 
hundred and fifty to two hundred dollars per acre, but farther west the price 
is lower. 
Varieties: Apples, summer and autumn — Yellow Transparent!, Oldenburg 
**, Wealthy**, Utter; winter, Winesap**, Ralls Genet*, Ben Davis**, Grimes 
Golden**, Jonathan**, Ganof, Arkansas!. Cherry — Early Richmond**, English 
Morello**, Montmorency**, Ostheim*, Terry!, Early Morello. Plums— 
Miner*, Forest Garden*, Wolf*, Wyant*, Stoddard!, Wild Goose*, Lombard*, 
Shipper Pridef. Pears— Flemish Beauty*, Sheldon*. Peaches— Alexander**, 
Early Rivers*, Hills Chili*, Wright**. Grapes— Concord**, Worden**, Moore**, 
Raspberry— Palmer**, Nemaha**, Kansas!. Blackberry — Snyder**. Currant- 
White Grape**, White Dutch**, Victoria**. Gooseberry— Downing**, Cham- 
pion*, Houghton*, Pearl!. 
Many varieties of apples were severely injured by the winter, Ben Davis 
worst of all. Peaches and apricots were in most cases killed to the ground 
and European plums and all kinds of cherries, were much injured. 
