13S XKBUASKA STATK IIOItTini/rLRAL SOCIETY 



( iiterprises. 1 am of the opinion that the advertiser who places his 

 contract with such publications will receive the best returns. 



I have thus briefly and hurriedly rambled over the field suggested by 

 advertising the apple. My experience indicates that that large company 

 of cheerful boosters who are to be found in the newspaper profession in 

 this state are Avilling to do their part in lettin.:? the world know the 

 superior quality of Nebraska fruit. They must rely on us who are 

 interested for their facts. Get tJie facts to them in reliable form and 

 you may depend on them to do the rest. Nebraska orchardists can get 

 publicity which could not be bought with hundreds of thousands of dol- 

 lars if they will get into the game properly and keep it up; but they 

 v/ill have to ensure the quality and uniformity of their product and put 

 it on the market in condition to compete with the growers of other sec- 

 tions. 



It is evident from the exhibit now installed at the Nebraska apple 

 show that it is possible for the Nebraska grower to produce the quality, 

 the pack and to occupy the home market; whether he will do this de- 

 pends on himself. 



The Chairman: Is there any discussion on this paper by Mr. Odell. 

 If not we will continue with the reading of the questions in the quosr 

 tion box. 



QUESTION BOX. 



The secretary reads the second question as follows: "How does 

 summer pruning compare with winter pruning on bearing apple trees?" 



The Chairman: Has there any one had any experience along that 

 line; if they have let them tell it. I remember when I was a boy in 

 Illinois they used to prune the apple trees when they were in bloom, 

 but I do not know anything about the results. 



Some one in the audience: As a stranger here I have enjoyed my- 

 self very much this afternoon and i see that you are at the point of 

 the question box, and I would ask the privilege of asking a question. I 

 think it will be somewhat in harmony with your meeting here. I will 

 state that some three years ago 1 boui^ht the Helena Fruit Farm, six 

 miles from Omaha, and it has pretty nearly killed me, and I want some 

 one to tell me something about some way to get relief. 



Mr. Pollard: In answer to the last question on pruning I will saj' 

 this: It will depend w-haL you are pruning for. If you are pruning to 

 Ihin out your trees in winter, it will produce a tremendous growth of 

 wood. If you prune in the summer, in July, it will give a check to the 

 growth of the wood. That is the difference that we have found in our 

 experience. If you wish to trim the tree for fruit, trim it in the sum- 

 mer, and if you wish to trim it for growth, trim it in the winter. 



Mr. Christy: I have found where we trim in the winter they heal 

 over better tiian our summer pruning. 



Mr. Pollard: No, they w'il crack through. The fruit buds are formed 

 in .July, and if you trim before then you will regret it. The theory is 



