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showed fruits. The affair was not a cheap one, and Mr. Munson, of 

 Texas, and Mr. Van Deman, now for years poinologist of the United 

 States Agricultural department, having been two of the three persons* 

 on the committee that made the award, is fall and sufficient warrant 

 for its value. No locality showed better apples at that same meeting- 

 than did Holt county. At Kansas City in 1883 Mr. Murray took first 

 premium for largest and best display of fruit by any one person. In 

 the same year Mr. Murray showed at the Nebraska State fair at Omaha 

 three hundred plates of Holt county apples and some other fruits.. 

 Only a technicality prevented his sweeping the largest premiums there. 

 Holt county fruit was confessed to be the best and the highest colored 

 of any shown. The " Kinzy," a new seedling from Holt county, was 

 awarded the first premium at the New Orleans exposition of 1886, as 

 the " best fall apple." 



At the greatest of all apple shows made, by the Missouri State 

 Horticultural society at St. Louis in 1888, the showing of fruit made by 

 Holt county was as good as that of any county in the State. To say 

 that it was as good is the highest praise. 



At the New Era exposition at St. Joseph last fall, 1889, Mr. Murray 

 exhibited eight hundred plates of apples, pears, peaches, plums, grapes,, 

 etc., all from one neighborhood in the southern end of our county, and 

 was awarded the $500 premium for best showing. 



At Omaha, at Council Bluffs, and no doubt at other places, small 

 dealers, as a custom, have taken from the original packages peaches 

 raised in Holt county, and branding them " California peaches," have- 

 habitually sold them for fancy prices. 



AS TO A MARKET 



For fruit raised here: One hundred miles north of us is the extreme 

 limit of successful apple growing, and that is confined to a few counties 

 next to the Missouri river in each of the States of Iowa and Nebraska,, 

 and 'within the Loess deposit. No essential competition with our 

 apples can ever come from the drift and glacier-made prairies of the 

 41st parallel. The crabs and the Russians produced there can not be 

 sold where the apples of Missouri are offered side by side with them. I 

 speak after an acquaintance of thirty-seven years with this region. The 

 Rocky Mountains on the west, the Gulf of Mexico on the south, and 

 the limit of the inhabitable country toward the arctic circle — these are 

 the bounds of the American marketing place for our green apples, and 

 the foreign markets yet unexplored are in the four corners of the globe- 

 In 188G Holt county sold 200,000 bushels of apples at from thirty 

 to fifty cents per bushel. 



