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home orchard collection. We feel pretty good over what Mr. 

 Barnard did for us, or rather what he and our {Secretary did 

 for us. We were in competition with North Carolina, Mary- 

 land, Virginia, Texas and Iowa, and we came home with this 

 cup (indicating). On state exhibits Iowa won the first prize 

 and Nebraska the second, and Washington, Maryland, Idaho 

 followed along. And I will say of Mr. Barnard and our Sec- 

 retary, — we ought to be very proud of them. We will have 

 to give them the credit for this gold medal, because any one 

 could have won that prize if they had laid out the design and 

 put up the fruit. Our boys simply took Jonathan apples, 

 and wrote the word Nebraska on one of those large tables and 

 then surrounded the Jonathans with Grimes Golden and 

 Northwestern Greenings, and they may well feel proud of 

 their work. W^e got a great big red feather in our cap over 

 Idaho, Washington, and California. The committee told the 

 boys to gather a good many Grimes Golden and Jonathan 

 apples and kept up the Nebraska record by letting no one go 

 away hungry. W^e kept giving them out and that had the 

 right effect. At the end when we came to gather up the apples 

 and sell them our apples went at $2 a box just as readily as 

 any in the hall ; Ave sold all we could spare and could have 

 sold a good many more, I think we had the advantage over 

 the Western states. 



Mr. Williams : I heard that the Iowa men were asking |3 

 a box for their apples? 



Mr. Marshall : I think we could have gotten |3 for ours if 

 we had asked it. We didn't ask it. Apples that stood in that 

 hot room 7 or 8 days were not in first class condition any 

 more ; the room that the fruit was in was warm and we felt 

 that |2 a box was not too much. The report that Mr. Barnard 

 gave to the committee is here and I will read it : 



Report read as follows : 



Receipts and disbursements in preparing and installing the 

 Nebraska Exhibit at the National Horticultural Congress 

 held at Council Bluffs, Iowa, Nov. 15 to 20, 1909, inclusive. 



