2.S0 NEBUASKA STATE H( »i:i'ICII,'rrKAT. SOCIETY 



disputes, and armies and navies will melt away. Industrial commissions 

 will settle the disputes between classes, and the tendency will be toward 

 universal justice. 



In the agitations that are inevitable and the discussions that must 

 come, no class is so favorably circumstanced for intelligent, conservative 

 leadership as the horticulturist. He occupies middle ground. He is a 

 worker, but not a wage slave. He is a capitalist without luxury. He is 

 a reader; but not a "book worm." He is a thinker, but not an imprac- 

 tical dreamer whose ideals never crystallize into action. He is alone 

 with nature, but not .shut out from the society of men. He mingles in 

 society, but is not controlled by social sets. We are in a strategic 

 position and can be an important factor in shaping the world's destinies 

 if we will. 



FRUIT GROWERS' ASSOCIATIONS. 



The merchant, the manufacturer and workers in other lines of work 

 see the prime necessity of working together as a unit in their various 

 lines of endeavor. The time is at hand when the fruit growers of Ne- 

 braska must get in line and form selling organizations where they can 

 present a united front to their competitors. Nebraska has the soil and 

 climate and men capable of producing as fine fruit as is grown anywhere. 

 This will avail the growers nothing if they can not get good markets. 

 The way to get the best prices and to insure a uniform product is organi- 

 zations. On the following pages will be found constitutions and by- 

 laws and partial report of the business for the year 1913 of two flourish- 

 ing associations that are successful. Many communities can form associa- 

 tions and reports of these two associations may be of some benefit to such, 

 {'"or this reason they are placed in the annual report. 



REPORT OF EASTERN NEBRASKA FRUIT GROWERS. 

 By C. G. Marshall, General Manager. 



Eastern Nebraska has been recognized as having superior advantages 

 as a fruit growing section, and its products have been steadily gaininu: 

 in favor for u number of years. Within the past two years apples 

 I'loni ort^hards having ui)-to-date management in this section have estab- 

 li.'-hod themselves on the Chicago and other eastern markets. Buyers 

 have come in and have paid fair prices for this fruit, but, as it lias 

 been packed generally in a slip-shod method, the more particular buyers 

 and those willing to pay fair pri< es have brought packers with them and 

 packed the fruit to suit their own markets. Wlien put up in this way 

 this fruit has sold in many cases for three or four times what the 

 grower received for same. 



Recognizing the fact that a larger quantity of fruit packed uuilornily 

 and hearing a hii)el or brand which woull ultimately be recognizrd ou 



