Show 1 J OLD STATE 01 PIKE THE HOMB OP TUB STARK unOTIIEHS1 NURSEPICB ele or the 11I11 l tslllatless In tae troydits Ted rSId a 11001 Cery tllllllJ hllan oo Earth Bt Louis Republic January 7 1SOG Ono ol the largest Institutions In Louis lana I la I the Stark Uro Nurseries and Orchards company Tho trade of tho firm extend not only throughout tho United State Canada Uermanjr Franco Italy Hungary and other foreign 1 for-eign countries but It hit a number of costumers both In New Zealand and Australia llfchtx years ago then camo from Kentucky to like county tho Into Judge Stark then a young man fresh from OM Hickorys New Orleans cam paliin Ho started tho nursery and planted tho Drat grafted orchard In the state having brought tho scions on horseback from Kentucky Tho butlncfi has descended from father to son and Is now conducted by the third generation assisted by the fourth This firm has more than 1000 traveling solicitors and employs more pronto In Its ofllccs than would be nee tiwry to run a largo manufacturing concern The extensive packlnglioiuws of the company are adjacent to the city connected with law railroad ytl special 1 tracks Kioru theo packinghouses hundreds of carloads of trees am shipped annually Tho nursery grounds embrace a number of farms convenient to the city and even extends to Hock I < ort III where them Is a plant of several 1 million tree The peculiarity of tho concern Is the establishment of large orchards ThMO nrrlmrds In 21 1 stales aggregate nearly CO 000 acres and more than JSUOOog tries on the partnership plan The firm Is also Interested In ns many moro trees on the coopcrnlho arrangement The nurserli have Icon beneficial not only to their home but Missouri ones uo Illllo of her prestige u a fruit grow lnR region to Ibo progress and work of development of this arm Tho exhlblta of this firm whenever made attract great attention and do much to advcrlliio tho state The firm pays Urge amounts for now varieties of fruit and conducts tho largest business of 1 the kind In America If not In tho world Loiililnna firms lmo moro traveling 1 men upon the road for them than travel out of any other city of the world ol hrI r r dll i its rise Tills of course Is I largely t duo to the largo number of men cmplojcd by the Stark Ilros Nurseries who furnish fur-nish their men tho moat complete up to date outflt ever Issued They lira Increasing their force of salesmen dally and room for more |