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regard to that matter. I hope you will remember what he has said 

 when you get home. It is important indeed that we make a good 

 showing at St. Louis. 1 was made to blush many times at the World's 

 Fair at Chicago, as I was one of the judges of fruits, when people from 

 other States would say: "What is the matter with Indiana? Don't you 

 raise fruit in Indiana?" Now this time I would like for Indiana to hold her 

 own; we can do it; we have made very great advancement since the 

 Fair at Chicago. We want to keep up our reputation, and the only way 

 to do it is to make a good exhibit at St. Louis. In Philadelphia in 187B 

 we made a creditable exhibit there. The point about labeling the fruit 

 was a good one. I suppose the committee will see to all of that. W^e 

 must make a great effort to get fruit to piit in cold storage to use before 

 our fruits are ripe next year. If I live I will do all I can for the State 

 or Indiana, and for the State Horticultural Society. 



Mr. Ragan: It is now settled that the appropriation has been allowed 

 to Indiana. At Chicago we received not a cent for the exhibit. If I 

 remember correctly there was not a plate of fruit from Indiana. The 

 horticulturists of Indiana are like the farmers that teach their boys to 

 help themselves. We got together some fruit and sent it to Philadelphia 

 in care of Mr. Johnson, who has just spoken, and I remember in round 

 numbers when the bills were all paid we were out $700.00. 



Mr. Johnson: Not so much, Mr. Ragan, only about $250.00. 



Mr. Ragan: • I guess I was mistaken; the limit was $700.00. At this 

 time we won distinguished honors, the medals, but we had a very high 

 compliment on the Bartlett pears grown by Mr. Johnson, in Irvington. 

 At the Paris exposition Mr. Burton received a very high compliment on 

 his Winesap apples. I am glad that you are to receive five thousand 

 dollars from . the State; even though this is small compared with our 

 sister States, this will help very materially. Missouri had thirty thousand 

 and Illinois had twenty-five thousand at Chicago. I hope to see Indiana 

 recover form the disgrace she experienced at Chicago and New Orleans. 

 Now, as the exposition begins too soon next year for you to have fruit, 

 you will have to make arrangements to have it kept in cold storage 

 until time to use it, at the opening of the exposition. Before the exposi- 

 tion closes the fruit will be ripe and can be used, but j'ou must prepare 

 for the time before this. As the fruits begin to ripen they will be sent 

 in. I am quite sure that the Indiana people will spend the five thousand 

 dollars well and judiciously, and will make a show which will be a credit 

 to the State. While I have for some years bten out of the State I 

 am still a citizen of Indiana, a native of Indiana, and I want to see 

 Indiana make up for past delinquencies at the coming exposition. 



President Stevens: I will say for the benefit of some who ai-e not 

 familiar with our plan of conducting this exhibit and collecting fniils 



