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bers that you had not learned everything, and that you iHd have a 

 lew things *to learn yet. 



Now in Nebraska we have a good many things to learn yet. We 

 come here in a very humble spirit, and can assure you that we don't 

 know by a long ways everything there is to learn in Nebraska. We 

 believe that conditions in Nebraska are not so very much worse than 

 they are here, or than they are in the Eastern States. They are merely 

 different. People who came there a good many years ago and set out 

 orchards, that came from New York, and set out the New York varie- 

 ties and then grew them by New York methods failed. Of course, 

 they failed. A great many of those fellows will tell you you can't 

 grow any fruit in Nebraska, but when Nebraskans come to learn 

 that they must use methods that are adapted to their climate — they 

 must find out what methods are adapted and must find out what varie- 

 ties are adapted to the climate — then they will succeed. We have not 

 found out all of this yet. We are hoping to learn this in time. We 

 perhaps know more about methods now than we do about varieties, 

 and I imagine we will never know which varieties are best adapted 

 to a great part of our state until we have had time to produce those 

 varieties right there. I am a very firm believer in the production and 

 the origination of varieties in the localities where they grow. Dnce 

 in awhile you will find a variety that will not do well all over the coun- 

 try, but most always the variety will not do well over large areas. 

 Last year I received samples of Ben Davis apples from Rhode Island, 

 right close to the coast where they have rain and fog three or four 

 days in a week, and where the sun don't shine, and they were actually 

 not as large as a Jenetan on a tree that has over-borne like everything. 

 Some of the Eastern apples grown in the West will be about as un- 

 favorable as the Ben Davis grown in the East. 



Our conditions in Nebraska, of course, are different from those 

 down here, perhaps, being right on the border line between the 

 North and the South. I suppose the border Hue is a pretty wide thing. 



We have to have varieties that are hardier, especially for the 

 Northern part of our State ; we have to have varieties that are better 

 keepers, especially in the Southern part ; sudi as you have to have 

 here probably; and we have conditions varying from the East to the 

 West of our State, and the conditions so adverse that it will be a long 

 time before we know everything that there is to be known about 

 methods and culture, and about varieties for our State. 



