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can, and if they can not, at the next meeting. I will make that mo- 

 tion. 



Seconded. Carried. 



Mr. Williams: I would like to say a word about advertising in Ne- 

 braska. It is a large proposition. It requires a live working committee, 

 and the committee should be continued from year to year. 



I want to say this: that one efficient way of advertising resources 

 would be to publish very freely such papers as Mr. Keyser has read, and 

 I want to ask Mr. Keyser that this paper be handed to the State Journal. 

 I think it is a pretty good medium for advertising and publishing papers 

 of the society. I was in the office this morning and they asked me to 

 hand in any particular papers of interest. They want to get them, and 

 it will be of great value to the orchardists of this state. 



Then a word while I am on my feet about the apple industry. I just 

 returned from Mills county, Iowa, my old home, and I was able to meet 

 a professional packer there, who has been in that region for twenty-one 

 years, and he told me that out of the twenty-one years, there had been 

 but one failure of the crops. The past year was one of the best years. 

 The packers of that county, who number about half a dozen, packed in 

 that county alone 200,000 bushels of apples, and the average price, I think, 

 that was paid, was about $2.25 a barrel. This packer told me he paid 

 $14,000 for the product of one orchard of seventy acres. 



Now it occurs to me there are hundreds of acres on this side of the 

 river, and we in Nebraska have similar soil and condition, and I want to 

 stand up for Nebraska and advertise its resources, for we can do the 

 same thing here that those folk^ can do over there. 



A Member: I would like to ask the writer of the paper if he com- 

 pared the quality of our apples with the New York and eastern apples. 



Mr. Keyser: No, I did not. My intention here was to show the 

 difference between the apples we were up against on the market and the 

 kind that should be on the market. The eastern apples, you will have to 

 give it to them in some respects. They are just as good as we have in 

 some respects, but I would not for one minute admit they are any better. 



E. M. Pollard: At the time of the St. Louis Exposition I was in 

 charge of the horticultural exhibit of this state. There we had an op- 

 portunity to compare the apples grown in every state in the Union, and 

 I think several of the territories at that time, and I know it was the 

 universal verdict of the judges who judged the apples from the various 

 states, variety for variety, grown over the country, that the quality of 

 the apples grown in this latitude running clear across the Atlantic Ocean, 

 thai there was hardly any difference. Of course, you understand that the 

 apple is at home in a cold climate. You put it in a warm climate and it 

 takes away from its quality. I will say that a few years ago the Univer- 

 sity made a very careful study of the quality of thei apples in Nebraska 

 with those grown in New York and the other eastern state. I am sorry 

 that the Chancellor of the University is not here, he could give us some 

 very valuable information on this question My best recollection of the 



