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they should, and when they got to the destination in Lincoln, it took four 

 barrels to make three — there was that much shrinkage in them. It is 

 a question whether the young fellow in starting out, would do better in not 

 leasing an orchard that has too many varieties of the summer variety in 

 them. Of course that is my advice to young fellows from my own ex- 

 perience. 



Mr. Pollard: The Duchess should be handled just about the same 

 as a peach, it v.on't stand lying around in a depot or packing house, or 

 anything of that kind; it must be moved. But our experience at home 

 has been, there is more money in the Duchess apple, than any other 

 apple. I would rather grow Duchess apples, from a commercial stand- 

 point than Jonathan, or any other apple in the world. If we get this fruit 

 growers' association we can handle them in small quantities. 



The Chairman: The time is passing very rapidly, and we will pass 

 on now to the next paper, and as far as any further discussion on this 

 paper is concerned, it can be brought up afterwards. 



COMMITTEES. 



The Chairman: I will announce the committee I have appointed 

 thus far. The committee on resolutions will be Mr. E. M. Pollard, of Ne- 

 hav/ka; Mr. L. M. Russell, and Mr. L. O. Williams. 



The committee on the revision of the premium list will be G. A. Mar- 

 shall, J. R. Duncan and C. H. Green. 



INSPECTION BILL. 



Mr. Chairman: About the bill for the inspection of nursery and hor- 

 ticultural products in Nebraska. You will remember that I told you 

 that in Nebraska we had no inspection laws of any sort and this new 

 federal inspection law, makes it necessary that we should have some' law 

 for inspection, for our own protection. 



I told you that a bill had been prepared for the legislature and in my 

 judgment it is a bill that we want passed. 



I have the bill here now and it is very lengthy, and probably Profes- 

 sor Bruner can tell you more than anybody present as he was called into 

 consultation to help draw^ up a bill, and if there is no objection, we will 

 ask Professor Bruner to tell us about what this bill means. 



Professor Bruner: I will say this much: that during the past, very 

 nearly every one of the most destructive insects that have reached Ameri- 

 can soil, have been imported from forei.i,ni countries, and as an example 

 of these, I will say that the house fly is an imported insect into this coun- 

 try. The gypsy moth and the brown tailed moth are imported insects, 

 and the cotton weevil of the south is an imported insect. I mi.sjht repeat 

 fifteen or twenty additional references of this kind, showing that our most 

 destructive insects, or at least nine-tenths of the destruction caused by 

 these petJts is from the imported insects. A number of sta'.es of the Union 



