Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-02-17
THE GROWERS.
The County Organization Holds
a Very Profitable Meet
ing.


tural aud Keepers Association
met in Mexico last Monday and
enjoyed a most profitable day of
two sessions. 1t had the largest
attendance and was the most deep
ly interesting meeting that has
ever been known in the history of
the Association. There were
about fifty in attendance.
Among the largest orchards rep
resented in the county were those
of w. l.. Kent, who has 13j acres,
two miles south of Mexico; j. r.
Bell who has 65 acres, near Mr..
Kent. Both raise apples; E. j.
Winter who has 40 acres Of differ
ent fruits, in the same vicinity;
A. Weimer south of Benton City,
who has 26 acres in apples and
two acres in peaches; WllkersOn
Bros, who have numerous large
apple and other fruit orchards in
various parts of the county; John
Hanger, who has 40 acres in APP
plies near Worcester. and VIM.
Mason, about 20 in apples, near
Mexico.
The morning session was opened
by PRAYER by +. G.. S. Miller, af-
ter which +. J. Winter responded
with an excellent paper on the
subject of Apple Orchards, ("
which was followed by a lengthy
discussion. Next called was VIM.
Llewellyn, when the Secy., Noble
Barnes, stated that Mr. Llewellyn
had been called away to Pittsburg,
Pa, but had forwarded his paper
on Pruning" which was read by
w. l.. Kent. This was followed
by a general discussion.
Miss Bessie Tucker favored the
audience with recitation, which
brought her many compliments.
The afternoon session was open
ed with a prayer by j. w. Rouse,
after which Miss Black sang a
beautiful solo. Joe Ware was
next called, who read paper on
my experience with an Orchard"
from which we learned that his or
chard began bearing in 1899 when
only three years old, and had
never failed in producing a crop
but one year since. Many of the
it-growers thought this orchard
had made the most remarkable lee
ord ever known. Mr.. Ware was
quizzed very closely in regard to
his method of handling it and the
condition under which it was
grown, to ascertain, if possible,
what had caused it to make this re-
markable record.
Mr.. Ware stated that this
four acre orchard had been planted
on a very rich tract of land, which
had formerly been a barn To-, but
that he had not given it any extra
care, if anything had rather neg
lected it. Some of the growers,
therefore, concluded it must have
been the rich soil alone, while 9th
ers shook their heads, owing to
the fact that IN other orchards
which have very rich spots, even
bottoms, have never showed this
record.
Miss Black read a paper on
small fruits, which was very inter
esting and instructive. VIM. Ma.
son read some selections on the
subject of Spraying" which was
followed by a most excellent paper
on Identifying the Home" by
Mrs. j. r. Bell, which showed hel
no. only to be lover of beauty.
but a student of home life.
Next was a humorous recitation
rendered by little Miss Tucker
which was highly applauded
Kelly Wilkerson read a paper on
''The benefits of an Organization
which was Endorsed by all the
growers. The Query Box was
next opened and the following
questions were read and answered
and many of them discussed;
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