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show bigger and better than the one we have here this year, and I am here 

 lo invite you to come to Omaha next year. 



A Member: For tlie last tliree weeks I liave been in tlie east and 

 the people back there did not seem to think or realize that we could grow 

 apples at all out here, and they would say "Apples in Nebraska, they can 

 not be as good as in Michigan or New York." That would be wherever 

 I happened to be. And 1 naturally told them we could beat them even 

 if it was three to one when they were talking to me. And, of course, I 

 told them that we did not grow as many varieties as they did, but we grew 

 more and I think we need this association to advertise our apples, and for 

 the business of locating our markets. 



Mr. Hess: I think the gentleman from Omaha is correct in advo- 

 cating the central association, but you need the small associations to 

 join in and form these large associations. The large associations have 

 to be formed by the smaller ones. There are so many things that can 

 be done in the small association that are helpful to the grower that per- 

 haps the large association could not take care of. Now, for instance, 

 the purchasing and handling of the material, the boxes and barrels, and 

 the spraying material, and all these things would be handled through your 

 local association, which is a big advantage, because you can buy at whole- 

 sale rates if you want to. And it is a tremendous help to a small grower. 

 Now, a man with a small orchard at a small place, unless he has an 

 association, he is at the mercy of somebody else, but if he is in an as.30- 

 ciation he shares equally with the rest of the members, because the 

 expenses are paid, and if there is any money left he gets a pro rata divi- 

 dend for the amount of fruit he sold. Now, in every community where 

 there are twenty or fifty growers, I think these associations are needed to 

 encourage the grower, and the expense to start with is not very large. 

 I really believe that as large as the gentleman from Omaha suggested 

 here w^ould be an advantage to a smaller association. That is what it 

 will come to. 



A Member: I will say this regarding advertising: Do you advertise 

 so that people in Omaha will know that you raise apples in Nebraska? If 

 you go to a grocery store they will sell you an apple from Washington or 

 Idaho, 1500 miles off, when they can get an apple of a far better flavor 

 although not so large, from 100 miles away. Now, if you are contem- 

 plating advertising in Omaha, advertise your home apples and sell home 

 apples. 



Mr. Pollard: I have been very much interested in this discussion 

 relating to the formation of a fruit growers' association. I see here quite 

 a number of gentlemen who were at Auburn two or three weeks ago. I 

 perhaps may bore some who were here yesterday when I made the re- 

 marks that I did. But I feel that I should say a word now when this 

 question is open for discussion. I want to say that as a result of the 

 Auburn meeting, and as it happened I was the temporary chairman, and 

 was called upon to appoint a committee of fifteen to draft a constitution 

 and by-lav/s for the government of such an association that that commit- 



