EASTERN FRUIT VERSUS WESTERN FRUIT 183 



Picking, per bu. .05 15 



Grading, .04 12 



Facing barrels 03 



Tailing barrels 02 



Heading barrels 02 



Total not including package 34 



It will be seen by the above figures that it costs no more to do 

 good work than to do it in any old way. 



SUPPLY HOME TRADE FIRST. 



After employing the proper methods in picking, packing and 

 grading the fruit, what is to be done with it? Shall it be shipped to 

 eastern markets to tickle the palates of strangers, or shall it be sold 

 to the home dealers who are begging for it? Up to the present time 

 the local merchants have been offered nothing but inferior grades, and 

 in order to hold trade have been forced to pay a high price for second 

 grade western grown stock. Why not save this double freight and 

 patronize home industries? Nebraska consumers are becoming too 

 well educated along this line to allow themselves to be imposed upon 

 much longer, and the fruit growers will be compelled to find another 

 market for the cull apples which eastern buyers refuse. , 



ONE MAN A PIONEER. 



However, there is one man who has climbed out of the rut, leaving 

 a good business in the city he went to the country and began growing 

 fruit in eastern Nebraska. Being a city man he has met with many 

 difficulties, but the market end of the business is a misery to him no 

 longer. How does* he handle his crops? Simply advertises good 

 fruit over his own state, where there is the greatest need of adver- 

 tising; sells good fruit put up in good packs for a good price. Mr. 

 Lewis' orchard at Brownville is not large but he is adding to it every 

 year and boosting home industries. 



>:astkr\ fhuit versus western fruit. 



Prof. J. R. Cooper, of the University of Nebraska, has traded fruit 

 with the different experiment stations in all the important apple grow- 

 ing sections of the United States, both East and West. The fruit is 

 being used in the classes on Systematic Pomology and Apple Judging. 

 The comparison of the fruit from the different sections is very inter- 

 esting from the producer's andconsumer's points of view as well as 

 from that of the student in Pomology. 



Apples from the New England States, New York, and Michigan 

 compare favorably with apples grown in Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, and 

 Missouri in color, texture and flavor, with the exceptions of some 

 varieties. The Ben Davis and Gano apples from the eastern states are 



