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years made mistakes, so I tliiuk we should feel satisfied and we hope 

 that the growers of the State who have sent in their fruit will receive 

 due credit from the jurors for all they have sent. 



Sylvester Johnson: You made a mistake as to this being our first 

 State exhibit. I think I took the first one to Philadelphia. 



Secretary P'lick: That was not a State exhibit, it was from the 

 society. 



Sylvester Johnson: I believe you are right since I come to think about 

 it. I know 1 went there in 1S7G, but I believe it was simply an exhibit 

 from our society. 



Mr. Stout: I think one point has been overlooked, and that is to com- 

 pliment the work of this society in doiug what it has. ■ Hardly any of 

 those ten thousand plates of fruit were sent by anyone outside of this 

 society. Almost every plate was from some member of this society and 

 I think it deserves great credit. 



Professor Troop: I have been listening to these discussions and it 

 comes to me that one of the things that goes to make up a successful 

 fruit grower is belief in the place where he lives. He must believe 

 in his State and in the particular section of the State in which he lives> 

 and think that it is the best place for growing fruit. If he believes this 

 he is going to make a success of fruit growing. In listening to this 

 discussion these things will crop out. Some think that Southern 

 Indiana is the best place for growing apples, and Mr. Grossman insists 

 that Northern Indiana is the best section for apples. Now Central Indiana 

 can grow apples and good ones. too. I may say that while Tippecanoe 

 County is not famed except around Clark's Hill for their fine apples, I 

 sent some to the World's Fair from the experiment station and they told 

 me that they were the best specimens that they had had, especially the 

 Yellow Transparent. I intended to send every week until the close, but a 

 big hail storm knocked my expectations all to pieces and the apples, too. 

 Now I wish to leave the thought, that in whatever State we may be, or 

 whatever section of the State we may live we must believe in that section 

 and believe that it is the best, and that goes a long ways in making it a 

 success. 



President Stevens: I want to say here on behalf of the Indiana 

 World's Fair Commission that we appreciate the work that has been done 

 by Indiana— the Indiana Horticultural Society— and without the assist- 

 ance of the various members of our society it Avould have been impos- 

 sible for us to have maintained and kept up a creditable exhibit through- 

 out the World's Fair. Most of the fruit gi'owers of the State contributed 

 their fruits gratuitously and put in a great deal of work for which no 



