464 BOARD OF AGRICULTUEE, 



Mr. Zion: How about the Wolf River? 



Mr. Grossman: "Well, I can hardly say. 



Secretary Flick: They came out in pretty good shape. 



Mr. Grossman: Yes,- that is true. That is a pretty good apple, and it 

 created much comment and always attracted attention. Men of twenty 

 years' experience said they had never heard of it before. The apples 

 were sound and stayed in fine condition, and when they were opened 

 they made a very fine show. I think it was remarkable the condition 

 they were In. 



There was a discussion among the States as to whether or not they 

 would make a show at first on account of not having plates, and there 

 were a great many that were not ready. They did not have their places 

 ready at all at the time of installation, and Missouri was one among the 

 number. All she had was some preserved fruit, she did not have any 

 fresh fruit at all at the opening; the same can be said of many of the 

 other States. Ohio made no show at all. Pennsylvania, New York, Ar- 

 kansas, Oregon, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, and ourselves, and possibly a 

 few others made an exhibit at the opening, but Illinois didn't show any- 

 thing; Wisconsin didn't open up any fruit at all. The orders were veiy 

 strict that the exhibit was to be in good shajje at ten o'clock on Saturday 

 morning, the first day of the Fail-. 



I did not get back to the Fair again until the second day of October, 

 and at that time everythhig was arranged nicely. I left the exhibit in 

 charge of Mr. Johnson, Mr. Flick, and Mr. and Mrs. Stevens. Upon arriv- 

 ing home I found I could not do anything in otlr section of the State imtil 

 after the fall apples began to ripen. Berries were so perishable that we 

 finally decided not to attempt to send them. We made one attempt and 

 quit. We shipped plums and early apples. I made a weekly shipment, 

 and I think I made some mistakes in sending. I was not careful enough 

 in making my selections. I should have cut down the quantity and sent 

 only the best specimens and a higher quality. As Mr. Bm'ton has men- 

 tioned in his paper that was the fault with others, as well as myself. 

 We were not careful enough, but it is hard to get fruit contributed, and 

 it took us a good deal of time to get enough. This fall when I went 

 this year's fruit was in its prime, and we had excellent fruit to make a 

 show with. Just as everyone did when they first went thei*e, I presume. 

 we cleaned up, washed the dishes, washed the tables— and I'll tell you 

 we had to do that frequently over there. We had a great deal of fall 

 fruit the first day I was there or the first week rather, and we filled five 

 liundred plates, but instead of limiting ourselves to that number we in- 

 creased it to a thousand. Before I left we had a display fully equal to 

 those of any of our neighboring States. We received many compliments 

 on the state of things, and many people told us that we had an exhibit 



