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features of the show was the hundreds of acquaintances made. During 

 the hot days of midsummer, possibly we looked a little bit shabby, but on 

 the whole no loyal Hoosier could help but be proud of the exhibit. 



I have no notes before me at this writing, but from memory will say 

 that of all the apples taken from cold storage the Salome* kept longest 

 and looked finest, and the Wagner did poorest. In fact, I don't think that 

 we had but few plates of the latter that were fit to put before the 

 judges at all, and they lasted but a few days. Our Ben Davis were 

 quite badly scalded in many packages, as were many of the Jenetts. 

 One barrel of very fine Rhode Island Greenings acted rather queer. On 

 unwrapping them they looked first-class, but in a few hours they began 

 to burst and the noise of the explosion could be heard several feet away, 

 and in twenty-four hours there was not an unbursted apple in the entire 

 barrel. A very noticeable feature of the entire exhibit was the great 

 variation of certain varieties of apples. For instance, the Ben Davis 

 of some States looked so different from the same variety in other States 

 that one could hardly believe them to be the same. But every grower 

 acknowledged them to be some better than no apple at all. In fact, I 

 gave one young girl a Grimes, a Winesap and a Ben Davis, and she 

 asked for the second Ben Davis in preference to one of the others. Hun- 

 dreds of elderly people stopped at our booth and asked to just look once 

 more at a Yellow Bellflower, Rambo or Milam that had grown in Indiana; 

 but, alas, we had but very few of the first two and not one single entry 

 of Milams. It was surprising to know how many visitors were at the fair 

 from our State, and how many were born in the State and now live some- 

 where else. In either case they were delighted to see our exhibit. The 

 men and women of 'fifty or more years would almost always ask after 

 the Bellflower and if i believed what they said aljout their grand- 

 father's trees of this variety, these trees were sixty feet tall, four feet 

 through, bore every year apples of the most delicious quality, beautifully 

 colored and in size anywhere from a quart cup to an ordinary water- 

 melon. Truly it is wonderful what a hold on the memories and affections 

 of people grandpa's Bellflower tree has. Can't some one renew or re- 

 suscitate this old favorite before another world's fair? 



When at all practical we aimed to give an apple to every Hoosier who 

 called at the booth and it was wonderful the number of people who at one 

 time or another had lived in Indiana. In fact I was "worked" a number 

 of times before I learned that every one who asked for an apple was not 

 an honest Hoosier, but for fear of "entertaining angels unawares" 1 

 gave when I could to all who asked and the State has not suffered for it. 



When the awards are published Indiana may not take the lion's share, 

 but she will be well up in the line. 



President Stevens: In connection with this paper we have some 

 others. The first one will be by Joe M. Burton. 



