212 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



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'Nebraska" spelled out in colors, the lines of the letters in 

 red apples, the lower part of the letters in green, and the up- 

 per part and border of the table in yellow, making a very 

 pretty effect and one which showed to all that Nebraska was 

 on the map. 



We also received the trophy offered by the Grape Growers' 

 Association of Council Bluffs for the best exhibit made by 

 au}^ state horticultural society. Also a silver loving cup for 

 the best eight varieties for continuous season on the farm. 

 These with about |175 in cash, which came very handy in 

 helping to defray the expenses of the exhibit, were the awards 

 which our exhibit was awarded. 



While noting the awards the Society took we must not for- 

 get the fruit- judging team from Nebraska which won the 

 trophy offered for the best fruit judging team. Nebraska, 

 Kansas, and Iowa were competitors, Avith our boys first. This 

 trophy has to be won twice out of three times before it be- 

 comes the property of the winners, consequently it will be 

 necessary for the next team to again win in order to hold the 

 trophy. 



In the exhibits at Council Bluffs one thing was especially 

 noticeable, all the exhibits were put up by scientific exhibitors 

 — there were none of the amateur exhibits that we so often 

 see at our state and county meetings and all of the fruit 

 showed for itself that it had been grown under the best con- 

 ditions possible as to cultivation, pruning, spraying, selec- 

 tion, and packing. 



The representation was from Maine to Idaho and from Iowa 

 and Nebraska to Texas and Mississippi with Maryland and 

 North Carolina on the southeast, so that all sections of the 

 United States were represented. 



The value of such a meeting is the question that all are 

 wont to raise, Does it pay and how? 



Nebraska with her red Jonathan and her fancy Yellow 

 Grimes made a hit with every one who examined our exhibit, 

 and many who tasted our fruit were thoroughly convinced 



