QUALITY OF MOHUASKA Al'l'LES. _ KCt 



whole matter is that the quality of the Jonathan and the Grimes Golden 

 and the Winesap, etc, ran equal to, if not superior to the Greening and 

 apples of that kind srown in New York and other eastern states. 



Secretary Marshall: We have in our office a silver medal given at 

 the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia in 1876 for the collection of 

 apples of the best quality, and it was won by Nebraska. So that must 

 indicate that we have quality, and \vc were at that time competing with 

 the eastern states. 



The Chairman: I would like to hoar from Mr. G. A. Marshall about 

 his apples. 



Mr. G. A. Marshall: We have been selling our apples to a Chicago 

 firm for the last two years, and we could not agree on the price last 

 summer when the buyer was there, and so he went away. I contended 

 that the price was going up, and you know it finally came down. Later 

 wc got a telegram from him that he was coming back here, and I knew 

 what that meant, because we had not made any price to him before. 

 Then he came back, and we made him a proposition, and he accepted it. 

 He had bought apples in different sections and I asked him why he came 

 back to Nebraska when he could buy elsewhere cheaper. "I tell you," 

 he said, "from March on we have to have an apple grown in the Missouri 

 river country if we do not want to repack." He said the Missouri river 

 apple is the best keeper they buy. This is one of the biggest firms in 

 the United States, and they have been in the apple business since I have 

 lived here, andi I thought that was saying a good deal for our apples. 



And another thing he told me, they shipped our Ben Davis into the 

 various markets in Ohio, where we have been told they would not eat 

 our Ben Davis, and he said they have a good trade there. Our orchard is 

 more than half Ben Davis, so more than half the apples he buys of us are 

 Ben Davis. Of cotirse it is just as Mr. Keyser told us, they have to have 

 the Ben Davis. If we had more Jonathans, and Grimes Goldens, and 

 Winesaps we could get a better price for them. But you don't find them 

 turning down the Ben Davis. 



And another thing about the quality of the Ben Davis. When we 

 give a New York man a Jonathan we will swell right up while he is eat- 

 ing it because we know he likes it; when we give him the Grimes Golden 

 we swell up bigger than ever. We do not care whether or not he is from 

 Michigan or New York. But when we give him the Ben Davis, — well, the 

 Ben Davis is not an apple to eat out of the hand, but for cooking they 

 have a place you can't take away from them. 



It is the evener of all the apples. It is the apple that the common 

 people should bow down on their hands and knees and be thankful to. 

 Why? Because it is the one apple that keeps the price of apples from 

 going so high that nobody but John D. Rockefeller could afford to eat 

 them. 



Two or three years ago we were going down east, and we looked into 

 the apples that wera in the markets of Chicago. Then we went to Buf- 

 falo, and looked there. Then we went on to New York, and I found more 



