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very well without winter protection. The red raspberries and 

 the blackberries should receive winter protection by covering 

 with earth as in Michigan and Colorado. Our confidence in 

 the future of this district is such that we are continuing to 

 plant contract orchards — 14,000 trees were planted this spring. 

 Other orchards are contracted for next season, one in a very 

 favorable location one mile from the Wyoming line. 



Up to this time Nebraska has shipped in a great deal more 

 fruit than it has shipped out. Our home market is capable of 

 immense and rapid development. When we grow more fruit 

 than the people can consume we are fortunately located with 

 leading trunk lines of railway, with a refrigerator car service 

 already established and a shorter haul than other commercial 

 districts, which will give us better access to the markets of 

 the country. 



FRUIT RAISING. 



' BY J, R. DAVroSON. 



Mr. DAvrosoN: My address will be very brief indeed. I 

 haven't had time or help to prepare a long address, and I pre- 

 sume you will all be glad of it. 



Nowthis includes a whole lotof hard work anda great many dis- 

 appointments, at least this is my experience so far, yet there is 

 a certain fascination about fruit growing that I can hardly des- 

 cribe, but which is a fact just the same, and there is scarcely a 

 person to be found, who owning if only a town lot does not de- 

 sire to raise some kind of fruit, and when the agents show their 

 highly colored plates, taken from life, no larger than the original, 

 we all feel a desire to raise tree currants, tree goose-berries, 

 and strawberries aslargeas Ben-Davis apples. That fewof ussuc- 

 ceed in attaining this high standard we aspire to, is but human. 

 My experience so far has failed to enrich me, but I have gained 

 some knowledge that I could obtain no other way, yet I find I 

 have hardly commenced to investigate the most interesting sub- 

 ject of fruit growing. I have succeeded fairly well with cher- 

 ries, currants and plums promise well, especially the Burbank, 



