42 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



In no place in all my travels, is there anything like the land 

 lying adjacent to the Missouri river between Omaha, Nebraska, and 

 St. Joseph, Missouri, with the possibilities of growing fruit, where land 

 can be obtained so cheap, and so easy of prsparation for planting as 

 in this locality. ' . 



If the states bordering this territory would use a small amount 

 of money, compared to what our Southern and Western States use 

 in promoting fruit growing districts, we would soon see the greatest 

 fruit district in the United States in the matter of production of 

 fruit, and also in the quality of the same right at our borders, and 

 instead of using our fruit lands for pasture at a very small return 

 we would have vast orchards to supply fruit for the markets of the 

 v/orld, of the best quality the world produces. 



So now, fellow members, in this new year of 1914, let us all push 

 and strive that 1915 will see great advancement in the development 

 of the fruit resources of Nebraska. 



Stand up for Nebraska. 



Discussion. 



Mr. G. A. Marshall: I hate to start this right away, but I have a 

 lot of committee work here that I want you to pass on. It will take 

 about five minutes, and then either order us to quit or go ahead. 



Mr. Barnard: There is no objection. 



Mr. Marshall: This committee was appointed last year to revise 

 the recommended fruit list this year. You know it has been 12 or 

 15 years since this was done, and the list is getting quite old and 

 thread bare. The change should have been brought about 4 or 5 or 

 6 years ago. Now over the older part of the state the trees have been 

 so weakened and injured that they are going to be shorter lived 

 The older trees especially of the apple vv^ere weakened by these 

 adverse conditions, such as the dry years, and the extreme freezes. 

 And we thought that the time had come that there would be a good 

 many new trees put in, or that were ripening r?,pidly, and that v/e had 

 better as a society get this list ready, as best we coulr". This com- 

 mittee composed of members from all over the state and t lypelf as 

 chairman of the committee, have started in to got them. I find it 

 Is a pretty hard job, and there are three or four districts that we 

 haven't received any letter from. We would like to have somebody 

 from those districts that knows something about it, to advise us, or 

 make the list so that it amounts to something. We have W'orked on 

 it for about a day since we have come down here. We were fortun- 

 ate enough to get the extreme western districts together, — those 

 members were here, — we have run out their parts of it. You reinembor 

 the recommended list, the map of it was in every report, and then we 

 have a list clear through of small fruits and so forth from each dis- 



