140 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Any niau who contemplates spraying should get the bulle- 

 tins of this station and of the Department of Agriculture at 

 Washington, and should read them very carefully for instruc- 

 tions that are adapted to conditions in his particular state. 



There' is another phase, that of horticultural organization. 

 We have had for a long time organizations that gather 

 up statistics. For instance, there is the American Pomo- 

 logical Society, and societies like your own that gather up 

 statistics and put them on record, so that w^e become posted 

 on much of the work that is being done, and sho^vs the pro- 

 gress of the science and what ought to be done. In recent 

 years there have been formed organizations for packing, 

 marketing, shipping, and handling the product, and protecting 

 the market. In our own state when the strawberrv interests 

 started, two decades ago, they were without organization and 

 the producer did not make enough; another man would be 

 lucky, he would strike an honest commission man and get 

 something out of his fruit; another man knew when he waked 

 up tomorrow morning that he had not only lost his fruit but 

 liad got nothing back to pay for the freight. In recent years 

 they have organized, they have oversight over the methods 

 of packing. A man has a place for his strawberries so they 

 can be crated and they v,\\l not be shipped until they are 

 crated. Again they are organized so they can have oversight 

 over w^ho the buyers are. They can sell them on track so 

 they may know who the men are that they deal with. They 

 can employ a nmn in cliarge of their organization who knoAvs 

 the markets, and knows where strawberi'ies are plentiful 

 and where they are needed and where they were marketed. 



Again in the far Northwest you see the results of organiza- 

 tion. Apples from the Hood River District are sold in other 

 sections for much higher prices than growers nearer the big 

 markets receive, because the Northwestern growers have done 

 something that growers nearer the market have not done; 

 thoy have organized and created a demand, and it gives them 

 a definite brand of goods and when they sell them on the 



