166 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



REPORT FROM SAKDOZ EXPERIMENT STATION. 



HAYS SPRINGS. 



Gentlemen : I ani pleased to report that the year 1909 

 was a favorable one with the trees in western Nebraska. 

 The ones at this station were loaded with fruit, a few kinds 

 of which I have brought to the show. 



I have now about 6,000 trees doing well and have tried 

 every variety of fruit usually sold by nurserymen, and will, 

 from now on, only have to try the newer varieties as fast as 

 introduced. 



I recommend for planting in the west part of the state 

 for home or sale: Cherries — Dyehouse, Early Morello, 

 Wragg. Plums — Sandoz, Larsen, Klondike, Wyant. Apples 

 —Florence, Duchess, Yellow Transparent, Longfleld. Pears 

 — Flemish Beauty, Warner, Birkett, and claim that west 

 Nebraska is even better adapted to cherries, plums, and pears 

 than the eastern part, while only the earliest kinds of apples 

 ought to be planted in the west, on account of the heavy Sep- 

 tember frosts. 



A great industry could be built up in the west in raising 

 Wragg cherries which ripen here August 15 to be sold at 

 fancy prices at Omaha and Chicago after theirs are gone. 



I wish the Society would go on record in favor of the 

 proposed parcel post, as no other convenience would so help 

 to develop the west, and enable farmers off the railroad to 

 get their mail. I need it every day. 



There is room in western Nebraska on unoccupied lands 

 for one million farmers and fruit raisers and I think the 

 government ought to discontinue giving away 640 acres of 

 land to persons who will never use one acre, and ought to give 

 the land to our new emigrants, Italians, Greeks, and Aus- 

 trians who are now coming, and they would help build up the 

 west, like the Germans did 30 years ago for the east. 



The newcomers can not find our free lands, and our govern- 

 ment ought to make provisions to show them the free land 



