192 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



parties will be pleased to always carry our surplus agricultural products 

 to the extreme east or the extreme west and carry back their surplus 

 horticultural products. Yes, we Nebraskans annually pay over $2,000,000 

 to the transportation companies to bring the fruit we consume from 

 foreign states and annually pay them about $50,000,000 to carry away 

 our surplus agricultural products. 



The real estate boosters from western states will always be pleased 

 to sell us Nebraskans their land planted to orchards at from $1,000 to 

 $5,000 per acre, and they are justly entitled to these prices as the orch- 

 ards pay big interest on the investment. 



The transportation companies and western real estate boosters are 

 composed of the most honest, upright, intelligent, wealthiest and best 

 business men the world has, and hence will not work against their 

 business interests, so we will not need to wait for them to boost the fruit 

 industries for us in Nebraska. We will have to join hands and work 

 together and grow what the millions want. We will say thank you, 

 to those who have already planted orchards, and that you have built 

 a monument which is far better than cold granite or lifeless marble. 

 We say to those who can gather up enough courage, ambition, enter- 

 prise and Nebraska horticultural enthusiasm to plant a commercial 

 orchard that they will never regret the undertaking and to those who 

 cannot plant we will say boost. If the work is a success here as planned 

 we will make this territory one of the greatest horticultural centers of 

 the world and this would considerably increase the value of your land. 

 If you cannot boost don't knock, but move an if you cannot do either 

 you are dead and should report it to the officers of the Humphrey Com- 

 mercial Club, who will attend to it that the club will pay your funeral 

 expenses. 



