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Professor '''John T. Stinson''' (1866–1958) was a notable 20th-century fruit specialist and the first director of the [[Missouri]] State Fruit Experiment Station in 1900<ref name="library.missouristate.edu">{{Cite web |url=http://library.missouristate.edu/paulevans/FESArchives/historyoutline.shtml |title=Missouri State University Library: Fruit Experiment Station Archives |access-date=2008-12-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080905165307/http://library.missouristate.edu/paulevans/fesarchives/historyoutline.shtml |archive-date=2008-09-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>United States Office of Experiment Stations, Vol. 187. 1907.</ref>  He is best remembered for his remark "An apple a day keeps the doctor away,"<ref name="library.missouristate.edu"/> given during a 1904 address to the [[Louisiana Purchase Exposition|St. Louis World's Fair]]. This phrase was an adaptation{{Citation needed|date=May 2007}} of a medical summary regarding the supposed health benefits of apples given to a 12th-century medical conference at the [[Salerno]] [[Medical School]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://stlplaces.com/stl_foods/ |title=Foods of Saint Louis MO |website=stlplaces.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061115200721/http://stlplaces.com/stl_foods/ |archive-date=2006-11-15}} </ref>
The now-famous "apple-a-day" slogan gained national acclaim from "Apple Day" that Mr Stinson had staged when he was the director of horticulture for the St. Louis World Fair, 1903–4.{{cn|date=October 2022}}
He was the director of agricultural development of the Missouri Pacific Rail Lines from 1922 to 1946, He was an early advocate of crop rotation and diversification, and fertilizing depleted land.{{cn|date=October 2022}}
A native of Montgomery County, Iowa, he joined Missouri Pacific in 1905. The next year he introduced agricultural exhibit trains. The trains stopped a day in each town along the lines and held open house and educational meetings in conjunction with county agents and university extension services. He was credited with helping thousands of farmers in the south and west.{{cn|date=October 2022}}
For seven years he served as secretary of the Missouri State Fair at Sedalia.{{cn|date=October 2022}}
He died in 1958 at the age of 92.{{cn|date=October 2022}}
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