86 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Member: Isn't there several varieties of the Burbank phim? 



Mr. Harrison: We only recognize one variety here, and 

 that goes by the name of Burbank. 



Mr. Christy: There is quite a variety of Burbank that 

 Mr. Williams has crossed, but there is only one Burbank known 

 by that name. 



Meeting adjourned to next morning. 



SECOND DAY'S SESSION. 



July 29th, 1904, 9:00 a.m. 

 ORCHARDING IN SOUTH-EASTERN NEBRASKA. 



BY T. E. SNODGRASS. 



Orcharding in Southeastern Nebraska twenty-five years ago 

 was far different from what is today. Seemingly almost every 

 part of it has changed. In those days the trees were young 

 and free from disease of all kinds. Insects had not found out 

 that they could get a good living without work. The trees 

 being young and free from disease, and no insects to mar or 

 injure the fruit, bore large crops of fine fruit. And the mar- 

 ket was at our very door. Wagons came in great numbers 

 from the West, coming over two hundred miles and took every- 

 thing, wind-falls and all. Some times we got more money for 

 our poor fruit in the after part of the season than we got for 

 our best fruit in the fore part of the season. Summer and fall 

 varieties brought as much as Winter varieties. This made the 

 season long and profitable for the fruit growers. 



It was an easy matter to be an orchardist then, when every 

 farmer w^anted to stand up and be counted as such, no matter 

 whether he knew anything about the business or not. The or- 

 chardist lost no sleep about who would help him harvest the 

 crop. The teamsters were his help, and boarded themselves, 

 being both pickers and buyers and not hard to please. Often 

 the second crowd of buyers would help the first pick and load 

 their wagons, so as to get them out of the way in order that 

 they themselves might load up. Everything came the or- 



