The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-12-13
THE HORTIcULTURALISTS.
The State Meeting in Which
Pettis Figures Promi-
nently.

nently.
The state society of Horticulture
has Just closed very interesting meet
ing at Carthage, No.
The Pettis county Horticultural
society sent the follswing report to
state society signed by its secretary,
l.. l.. Kirk:
The Report
Our society at Sedalia, Mo-, has
about thirty substantial ,enterprising
fruit growers. We study carefully
all matters of interest connected with
the varieties of fruit grown in this Sec
tiOn-and best methods of marketing
the same. This year we fell far short
of supplying the home market except
perhaps in small fruits. Our society
took s72.75 in cash premiums at the
Missouri State Fair this year; and in
dividual members took about Sl25 in
cash premiums at the st. Louis Fair.
We contemplate in the near future
starting a Horticultural Library for
benefit of fruit growers of thi- county,
and in the early spring of '93 will Is
sue
\ BULLETIN
cOntainin" our experience with varie-
ties in good repute for this locality.
We have men with large experience
in growing apples and small fruits, and
their knowledge will be valuable to
new beginners and new corners. and
will guide them from making expen-
sive blunders.
We recommend that our state soci-
ETY. map out a course of study for the
horticulturaliSt and prepare a list of
questions helpful thereto.
We shall improve every available
opportunity to assist in the states dis
play at the Columbian Exposition at
Chicago and hope this feature will re-
ceive the hearty support of all fruit
growers throughout the state.
George 3. lamm's Paper.
The following is an interesting pa
per presented by Geo. b. Lamm, the
president of the Petti> county society
If many of us were to 20 back to
the homes of our childhood, we would
find that the once familiar paths in
the wildwood have been changed, and
in their stead are the carefully cult
waited grain fields of to-day. The lanes
also are changed to section lines,
graded and graveled. The old wooden
bridges are replaced by the new steel
structures of modern design, and
changes in every sphere of life have
been going on since we took our de-
parture ten, twenty, thirty or forty
years ago. This is no less true than
that we have changed our plans of
producing wealth, our modes of inves-
tigating subjects, and our ideas of
what constitutes happiness. We are to
reach for greater results in the same
length of time than our fathers did.
We live in a wiser age, our occupa-
tons are more diversified, and we
have more speedy methods of reaching
the objects of our ambition.
Nor is it possible, nor we longer
wish to Use the slow methods of the
past in which each man experiments
for himself, reaching the same con-
clusion and demonstrating the same
facts over and over again, that have
long been reached and demonstrated
and given to guide men, or misguide
them. Happy is the man that catch
es the spirit of his new development
of things and profits by the experience
of others and places his shoulder to
the already rolling wheel and moves
on with the age. One Of the
MOST STRIKING FEATURES
of change from the slow plans
of the past to the present rapid
advancement among the people is our
state associations. 1t certainly does
not take much consideration upon
the part of any thinking man or wo-
man to see the advantages growing
ont of associating with the experienc-
ed and intelligent in the same calling
in which you yourselves are engaged.
No man never rubbed up against his
fellow craftsman that did not have a
chance to learn something of success
or failure in the common occupation
of both. These associations make it
now possible for men Of enquiring
and teachable minds to become wiser
and morepractical, and more conserva-
tive. and more thoughtful, and more
cultured and consequently more use-
full in a shorter length Of time than
in days gone by. Practical knowl.
edge is made such by experience and