While the agricultural colleges of other States have productive endowments amounting to several hundred thousand dollars, the lands and other endowments of this College yield a few hundred dollars only. While other agricultural colleges have received from their State Legislatures annual appropriations varying from $5,000 to $50,000, our Legislature declines to give us even the labor of a few idle convicts to build our barns and fences, and clear up the farm given us by Boone county. OUR FINANCIAL AND BUSINESS DEPARTMENT. Thus left to our own resources for the means of educating the youth of the State for the highest and most useful of all employments, we are compelled to make the money needed by the products of the farm, the nursery and the garden. To this end we now offer to the people of the State, through reliable agents, all the best varieties of fruits, trees, shrubs, ornamental and useful plants, and seeds of farm crops. We offer those only which have been tested and found suited to our soil and climate. We fully guarantee that all we sell shall be of the best quality, true to name, and be delivered in good condition and at reasonable prices. Our agents will be capable, honest, and educated for the business. Nearly all of them are our own students. TO THE NURSERYMEN AND GARDENERS Of the State, we offer no opposition and bring no conflict of interest, but fraternal and co-operative relations; such only as shall be for our mutual interests. We will purchase of them their good, reliable surplus stock, and supply them with such as they may need on terms mutually satisfactory. We will test all new fruits sent us for the mutual advantage of all. OUR STUDENTS Are given the best possible course of instruction in Agriculture and Horticulture, both technical and practical; and, in addition, as good a course in literature and science as can be had in the country. We also furnish the daily labor and the agencies for selling our nursery stock, by which all capable and economical young men can pay their way at the College. In this effort to give our youth such an education as will best fit them for the duties of the farm and the State, we ask the co-operation and active sympathy of all our people; while we pledge the consecration of all our powers to the building up of this our favorite school. Will the journalists of the State tell the people what we are trying to do for the good cause? Shall Missouri have the only self-sustaining Agricultural College in the world? G. C. SWALLOW, Dean Agricultural College. S. M. TRACY, Prof. Entomology and Economic Botany and Superintendent of Gardens. GEORGE HUSMANN, Prof. and Superintendent Pomology and Forestry. ROBERT B. MADDEX, Farm Superintendent. PROCEEDINGS OF THE Missouri State Horticultural Society, AT ITS TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETING, HELD AT ST. LOUIS, MO., JANUARY 19-21, 1880. BY THE SECRETARY, S. M. TRACY. OFFICERS FOR 1880. PRESIDENT: Hon. N. J. Colman, St. Louis. VICE-PRESIDENTS: 1st Congressional District-H. Michel St. Louis. པ -Dr. C. W. Spaulding, Cliff Cave. -H. D. Wilson, Cape Girardeau. Proceedings. FIRST DAY. The meeting which was held in the Board room of the Polytechnic school building, was called to order at 10 o'clock A. M., by the President, Hon. N. J. Colman, who delivered the following: PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. GENTLEMEN-It is fitting and proper, at the opening of the twentysecond annual meeting of the Missouri State Horticultural Society, that I should return my sincere thanks to the members for the high honor conferred on me by electing me to preside over it. A similar honor was conferred upon me twenty-one years ago, when this society was organized. Of those who were present at that meeting, I see in attendance here to-day but two members, Prof. G. C. Swallow and Prof. Geo. Husmann, both gentlemen now connected with our State Agricultural College, and both as earnest and zealous in imparting horticultural information as they were nearly a quarter of a century ago. The history of this society is an interesting one. At the time of its organization the golden era of horticulture was dawning in this State. The society flourished and horticulture flourished. Enthusiastic horticulturists, not only from all parts of this State, but from our neighboring State of Illinois, became members. The meetings were awaited with interest, and the attendance was large. The discussions were interesting and instructive, and the publications of the proceedings were eagerly sought by horticulturists from all parts of the Union. The tables were loaded with the finest specimens of fruits and wines, and their merits were extolled over the broad land. The cause of horticulture flourished like a green bay tree. At this period in the history of our society no State horticultural association in the nation stood higher. Such A R-13. |