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and decide as to the merits and wliat should be reported to this society, 

 and then they can be recognized or rejected as we see fit and the matter 

 can be extended in the way of trial by sending to these stations which are 

 scattered over the state. I think we are pretty well organized for that 

 if we will work on that line. Now I want to speak of a rule of the 

 Apple Growers' Congress that may seem silly, but it is wonderful how it 

 works out. They have a rule that when you join that society you pledge 

 yourself to call for an apple or apples on the table of every hotel or res- 

 taurant where you eat, if the apples are not there. Apple pie, apple sauce, 

 baked apples, apples in any form. Encourage what we grow. I am not a 

 member of that organization, but I have followed that for some time, 

 and the places where I eat only two or three times a year, when I come 

 begin to rustle around to get apples on the table. I have heard the 

 editor of the Rural New Yorker make the statement that at a restaurant 

 where he ate occasionally, not very often either, he called the proprietor 

 of the restaurant around, and putting on a serious look asked him why 

 he didn't have baked apples and cream at such a wonderful restaurant as 

 he had there. The fellow apologized and said he would have baked apples 

 and cream, and he did; and some time afterwards he got a letter from 

 this man thanking him for his suggestion. He said he was using five 

 barrels of apples per day and people were walking blocks to that restau- 

 rant in the morning to get a dish of baked apples and cream. This is 

 not a story, this is true. The apple is really the fruit of the whole world, 

 and we do not ejive it its just place. 



Mr. Bombarger: Mr. H. "W. Collingwood, the editor of the Rural New 

 Yorker, also told me privately, one very effective way of bringing about 

 the consumption of apples aside from this. I have heard him tell of this 

 incident also. He said he made it a point where he went into a Commer- 

 cial Travelers' Association — he can tell a good story and good jokes, and 

 the Commercial men enjoy those things very much, and then he gets on to 

 this apple strain and he said he started the consumption of apples through 

 the hotels of the east, and it has been a surprise what an effect it has 

 had on the trade. If any of us have any influence or are mingling with 

 these commercial men, who are men of wide business associations, it is 

 a point we ought to press. You can do it here in Nebraska, and we can 

 do it in the Iowa association. 



Mr. Davidson: Do the Nebraska apple growers take any pains to get 

 Nebraska purchasers? Most of them buy in New York or other places. 

 If Nebraska packers would put up such a pack of apples as would compete 

 with New York stock, they could sell their apples at home. In Aurora 

 one merchant bought New York apples and I bought Nebraska apples. He 

 had very poor success with the New York apples. Greenings — they did not 

 keep as well as the Nebraska apples. If Nebraska packers would pack 

 their apples good enough, and not put the largest and best on the outside, 

 they can sell to Nebraska merchants, I haven't a doubt. 



Mr. Christy: I shipped quite a few apples this fall. I shipped some to 



