lao NEDKASKA STATE lIUUTlCLLTLltAL SOCIETY 



RESOLUTION 



Since all or the states surrounding Nebraska liave seen fit to pass 

 laws requiring the inspection of nursery stock, fruit, shade, ornamental 

 and other trees, shrubs and plants for the purpose of preventing the in- 

 troduction and spread of dangerouslj' destructive insect pests and plant 

 diseases, and since the geueryl government has also seen fit to legislate 

 in the sair;e direction therefore be it resolved that the Horticultural So- 

 ciety of Nebraska here in session does hereby rcommond that the present 

 legislature be asked to pass the inspection and quarantine bill now pend- 

 ing. 



Mr. Duncan: I move the adoption of this resolution. 



Seconded. Carried. 



DISCUSSION ON SPRAYING. 



The Chairman : I notice that the next subject on our program is a 

 discussion on spraying. If you are prepared to discuss that matter we 

 will take it up at this time, if not we will try and reach it tomorrow. 



A Member: The man, in the discussion of the leasing of orchards, 

 spoke something about the second spraying, I did not understand what 

 he meant. 



The Secretary: He said that the time lost during the second spray- 

 ing was costing from $1 to $5 an hour, and that he wanted to emphasize 

 that strongly. He meant if wc had to lose time in making trips to points 

 quite a distance away to get supplies and s6 forth, and that was the most 

 important spraying of all, and the time spent at that time in getting sup- 

 plies and so forth was very costly. So we had above all things better be 

 prepared for that spraying. 



The Chairman: We will now take up the question box. 



QUESTION BOX. 



The secretary read the first question as follows: "Is it not a fact 

 that the world-v,ide planting of apple trees will soon force the price oi 

 fruit down to the cost of production? 



A Member: From my observation from a three thousand mile trip 

 to eastern Pennsylvania and back to J>Jebraska, over different routes, I 

 would say that old orchards are dying faster than the younger orchards 

 are being planted, so that at present in this section there is no danger 

 of there being too many orchards and lessening the price for that reason. 



C. G. Marshall: You know that apples are rather cheap, and they say 

 there is a big crop, — and I think that the chief trouble has been that the 

 people have been educated away from eatin.g apples, simply because they 

 have been so high priced, the last few years. The man who is handling 

 apples, the retailer, is expecting from one to five hundred per cent profit. 

 And the middle man, the commission man is expecting a profit on them. 



