104 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



During the noon hour, I was over in the auditorium looking over 

 the fruit, and I met an old friend of my college days. I had not 

 seen him for 15 years, he is one of the professors of the University: 

 and he says, "Pollard, is it true, as we are told by the retailers here, 

 that Nebraska apples won't keep? I go in a grocery store and ask 

 the groceryman for a Nebraska apple, and he says they won't Keep. 

 We go down to Washington and ship in apples from there, because 

 they will keep." That is what my friend said, and yet the people 'u 

 Chicago and the other cities in the east, come here to get our apples, 

 because they will keep, and they hold our apples grown in this reg- 

 ion until the last. Why? Because they are long keepers. Now then, 

 I did not want to make a speech, but when I get started on this 

 subject, I can't quit some way. I do think Mr. President, that 

 this society might well afford to take up this matter. Now I have not 

 any plan, but I just throw out this suggestion, and I am not sura but 

 what it would be a very good idea if a committee was appointed to 

 see whether some of the funds that are in the hands of this society 

 might not be used in an educational campaign to advertise Nebraska 

 apples, among the home people, instead of having our own fruit go 

 to the eastern people and having our people at home receive our 

 poorer apples. 



Mr. Harrison: One reason why we do not eat Nebraska apples, 

 is that we can't get them. I go to York, and can't find a Nebraska 

 apple, and I say, "Don't you get them" and he says, "We can't." And 

 so we go to Washington and ship them in. They keep just about like 

 a door knob, and they are just as luscious too. We tried to use them 

 last winter, and we doctored them up with lemon juice and everything 

 we could get, and we could not use them then, and so we took them 

 over to a poor family and because they were in that condition they 

 used them anyway. Then by a sleight of hand trick, we managed 

 to get a barrel of the Pollard apples, and we ate them up as fast as 

 we could. 



The Chairman: You will have to forgive our fellows over here 

 on this side of the river, for indulging in so much oratory about our 

 apples. 



Mr. Spencer: I grow some apples, and I have them to sell. 

 Now a man comes along, and he says, "Here, I want to buy a load of 

 apples. "He looks at mine, they suit him, and the price and terras are 

 arranged, and he buys the apples, and that is as far as it concerns 

 me. I let him figure out the rest of it. That is what I raise apples 

 for, is the money in it. 1 can't tell him to ehip those out to York, 

 Nebraska, or Sidney, Nebraska, it is the other fellows business to 

 distribute them. The advertising of this Nebraska apple if it has 

 {'II the merits that is claimed for it, and the same with the Iowa apple, 

 if it can be advertised so as to get the producer and consumer closer 



