290 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



gation, but require clean cultivation like corn. Of small fruit, currants, 

 gooseberries, dewberries, June berries. Cardinal raspberries and Snyder 

 blackberries can be raised anywhere. 



I also call the attention of the people that West Nebraska has yet 

 untold free homestead lands, that will raise, corn, cattle and alfalfa, 

 and also all above kinds of fruits, and I think that West Nebraska is 

 better adapted to cherries, plums and pears than the eastern part, with 

 apples a close second. Plums and cherries in four to six weeks later than 

 at Omaha, and can be raised to the extent of 400 bushels per acre, with 

 good selection of trees and West Nebraska will in a short time outdo 

 Colorado because we have better lands and more rainfall. 



Thanking you for your past support I am 



Yours respectfully, 



JULES A. SANDOZ. 



Haigler, Nebraska, January, 1910. 

 Gentlemen of the State Horticultural Society: 



In attempting to make a report we feel somewhat at a loss what to 

 say for we have been robbed of our fruit crop for two years in succes- 

 sion by late frosts. However, the trees were not to blame, for they were 

 loaded with bloom each year. While this failure may not occur in many 

 years, yet we cannot help feeling our ardor cooled a little. But should 

 we be called upon to pass through the same ordeal, I believe it would be 

 well to try oil pots or some other material that will create a good 

 smudge, as straw or weeds mixed with stable manure to keep if from 

 burning too rapidly, taking care not to injure the trees. I have been 

 asked many times if I thought this part of the state would ever produce 

 fruit to amount to anything. I have always answered in the affirmative, 

 for good reasons. First, my orchard bore ten crops of fruit in sucession, 

 all kinds of apples, making a good showing each year, except Red June 

 which has not been a success. I have sixteen varieties in bearing. Crabs 

 are a great success, I have two transcended trees which have paid me 

 $45.00 in one year. While I have not had great success with cherries 

 and plums yet some of my neighbors have had good success, and as far 

 as I can learn they are a success throughout this district. I would not 

 advise anyone in my district to plant many peaches, our winters are too 

 changable. I would plant a few, if they do not bring any fruit, they are 

 nice to look at and make a very nice shade, the Crosby is the hardiest. 

 I have found, out of five varieties I have tried we would advise everyone 

 to plant a few trees, each of standard and dwarf pears, they seem to be 

 hardy and make a good growth, the Bartlett is a very good one, there 

 may be others equally good. As far as I can learn grapes are not a 

 success in southwestern Nebraska, they 'have proven a falure with me. 

 However, I would say to every home builder in this newly settled part of 

 our good state. Plant fruit try a little of all kinds, but let apples and 

 cherries predominate. I am speaking particularly to those in our dis- 

 trict where fruit is always dear and hard to get. You will not regret it 

 if you do it properly. GEORGE WHITE. 



