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together, that will solve the problem, but I do not know, or pretend 

 to say how it can be done. 



Mr. Reeves: Now you know when these Iowa men come to 

 talk, you must look out. There is one way you can help along this 

 line, and that is by taking a lession from some of the Western sec- 

 tions. I spent some time in the vicinity of one of the towns of a 

 western section, and learned that instead of putting their poor apples 

 on the local market, and shipping all the good ones, away, you couM 

 hardly buy poor ones from the growers; they were opposed to sell- 

 ing poor apples for consumption, even at home to their neighbors. 

 Instead of doing that, they either gave them to their neighbors, or 

 hauled them down to the cider mill, and had them changed into 

 cider or vinegar. Now I know how it is in Nebraska, because I 

 live in Iowa and it is just across the river. We try to get rid of 

 our poor apples among oi;r neighbors; you have been doing the came 

 thing here. I know it, because a lady over here in the auditorium 

 today said to me or in my hearing, "I wonder where these apples came 

 from?" and I said, "These are all Nebraska apples." And she said, 

 "you can't make me believe that. I have lived in Nebraska a great 

 many years, and you can't make me believe that." She said, "we 

 can't buy these from the orchardists, and if they grow them why don't 

 they sell them?" Mr. Pollard perhaps grows a few of them, but the 

 rest of them they get them from some other place." So do something 

 else with your poor apples instead of giving them to your neigh- 

 bors or selling them. Make all the fun you want to, of those western 

 apples, but people do eat them, and like them, and they are good 

 apples. I have heard remarks in Iowa that Iowa apples a-re the best 

 apples in the country, and in Oregon they say the same thing there, 

 and in New York, they think there is no apple in the world like the 

 New York apple, and in Maine the same way, and then I was talking 

 with some of those Mormons down in Utah and they knew that Utah 

 apples were the best apples there were in the world. So my friend 

 Spencer and I can overlook the matter of your saying 'you grow the 

 best apple in the world. Nevertheless it is al right to declare it, and 

 it is the truth that you grow just as good an apple as they do any- 

 place on earth. And you want to work up your home market, on 

 that basis, and it will be to your profit and in that way you will eat 

 more apples. 



Mr. Pollard: Before we get away from this question I am going 

 to make a motion. I will confess I am not familiar with the status of 

 the treasury of our society, or just what we can do; or whether cr 

 not there is anything we can do in the way of advertisement. Of 

 course that costs money. But we should do a little educational worn 

 along this line, and I am going to move that a committee of three be 

 appointed to take up this matter, and confer with the executive 



