48 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



orchards, containing 755,000 trees. AU this development of the 

 southern fruit industry is the result of the eastern and north- 

 ern blood that is developing the south. Ohio and Connecticut 

 people are largely interested in bringing about the change. 

 From barren fields they have produced train loads of fruit and 

 are employing thousands of laborers to develop the south. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Youngers: (After finishing reading his paper states:) 

 Georgia in the last 12 years has put out 12,000,000 peach trees. 

 A Member: Do you think there is an opportunity for Ne- 

 braska to compete with Georgia in the peach business? 



Mr. Youngers: I don't beUeve it is advisable unless_ they 

 would form a company and plant on a large scale. In the first 

 place the land is so poor you have got to fertilize it; and when 

 you get fourteen bushels of corn to the acre, planted at four feet 

 apart, one kernal to the hiU, you are getting a good crop- 



A Member: Can you make peach growing as successful in 

 Nebraska as they do in Georgia? 



Mr. Youngers: I think you can. They ship their peaches 

 to Boston and New York, they don't come in competition with 

 the west at aU. I believe if we had orchards large enough so we 

 could ship them that way we could make good money in Ne- 

 braska. 



Mr. Snodgrass: How do our Nebraska peaches compare 

 with Georgia peaches in fiavor ? 



Mr. Youngers: I think the Nebraska peach superior to the 

 Georgia peach. We had that tested at the World's Fair, when 

 the committee on awards made their award on peaches. They 

 gave New Jersey first and Nebraska second in quality. They 

 tell us they hadn't any rain for practically three months in 

 Georgia. Tliat made considerable difference. When I was 

 down in Georgia twelve years ago they were very juicy and 

 smaUer than our own, but this year they had no rain for about 

 three months. 



Mr. Harrison: I was in Mobile last winter and had a chance 

 to observe a little not far from Mobile, and the peach orchards 



