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greatest showing of apples ever made in America. It was the cream of 

 their orchards. The superinteudeiit told me that they had thousands of 

 bushels of apples of an inferior grade that were lying on the ground and 

 going to waste because there was no market for them. If they made a 

 profit on their apples they would have to get two dollars a bushel when 

 shipped as far east as Indianapolis. So wo can infer from that that we 

 have the advantage of these apple growers, for if we can get two dollars 

 a barrel there is a profit for us. Every apple they sell must be a perfect 

 apple, and they are at a great expense to assoi't them and ship them. 



In reference to the nuts. Indiana did make a good showing of nuts. 

 There were many kinds that I did not know we grew. There was one 

 luit there which especially attracted attention. This was a cross be- 

 tween the pecan and the hickory nut. It was probably two inches and a 

 half long, and about an inch wide, and three-fourths of an inch thick. 

 The shell was thin and full of the kernel, which had the flavor of the 

 hickory nut. This nut came from Posey Couhty, and like the pawpaw 

 spoken of, we had a time keeping these nu;ts, for they wei'e usually swiped. 



As to keeping apples iu cold storage we found nothing better than the 

 Salome. They were picked at different times and crated in different ways 

 and when they came out of cold storage they were in fine condition. We 

 kept them on the table for a hundred days, from the first days of the Fair 

 until the hot days of July and August, and they were in pretty good con- 

 dition when we took them off. Of course they were wilted, but they 

 were sound and I suppose they would have lasted until now if they 

 had been left on the tables. I want to call attention to something else. 

 The State early at the beginning of the Fair— or the committee, I should 

 say— saAV that we were badly in need of advertising literature, so they 

 concluded to prepare a pamphlet entitled, "Some Facts about Indiana 

 Fruit Culture." and we had them published, and distributed about ten 

 thousand copies of them at St. Louis. It was something which the people 

 were anxious to get and out of the ten thousand which were taken from 

 the tables I discovered very few cast away in the corners or on other 

 tables. I think we ought to do something more of this kind in the future, 

 and tliis is one of the things which should be luulertaken if we conclude 

 to make the Secretary's office permanent. We should get out this kind 

 of a pamphlet and spread it all over the counti-y and I am sure they will 

 do us much good. We will have to get* more cajtital in our State before 

 we can develop the fruit interest properly. I should like for each one 

 of you to take one of these books home with you. AVe have enough of 

 them for you on tho table iu llie other room. 



I think lliat none of us have a right to be nsb.amed of our exhibit at 

 the F:iir. It was the first State exhibit that the State has made. 

 We Aver(> vuuised to such work— both the growers and the managers 

 were —and possibly next time we can do better, but other 

 States, even those wlio had been in the same business for ten or twelve 



