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tree, but I had a party picking it and they got them mix- 

 ed up, therefore, I kept track of the next largest tree, and 

 all the same size as you see there. (Those are the smallest 

 cherries I raised there.) Off of twenty trees I raised seventy- 

 two bushels of cherries and sold all for a $1.50 a bushel and 

 gave a good round measure. If there is anybody here who got 

 some I would like to see their faces (applause.) I dont believe 

 in cheating a man. If I cheat a man out of a dollar, I believe I 

 will lose $10. I believe in being honest with a man. That is 

 the way my cherries are, as you see them, the whole orchard 

 that I have. Out of twenty trees, seventy two bushels of cherr- 

 ies came off the trees, and that is the size they are. I would 

 like to have you all see my orchard. Of course it is just smaU, 

 but my trees are not trained like other people train theirs. I 

 trim my trees up so that the tree may devlope the fruit its nat- 

 ural size, and you can see there what it is. But by letting it 

 grow up in ordianary sprouts it will make a weak and sickly tree 

 and will not produce its fruit as it ought to. Therefore, I find that 

 I have better luck by doing that than I would to let it grow. 

 Lots of people want their trees to bush down to the ground so 

 that the limbs will protect the body of the tree from the sun. 

 I say trim your tree up and scrub it— it does a person good 

 lots of times (laughter) and I say do your trees the same. Then 

 after you do that put that whitewash on it, that is a great pro- 

 tection from the sun, and also keeps the bark tender, and the 

 tree wiU then grow and produce its fruit right. But of all the 

 growing cherries here I will take the Early and Late Richmond 

 for Nebraska. When a tree grows seven bushels and eighteen 

 quarts of cherries that is good enough for me. I came here in 

 an early day, and when I came here the people told me you 

 could not raise fruit in this country. Of course I brought a lot 

 of seed with me that I planted, and thought I would try it that 

 way, and I found out that you could get trees from the nursery- 

 men that would do a great deal better. So I had a little means, 

 and I bought me a little place here in town and bought a few 

 trees. My wife says, "What do you want to put out those little 

 bushes for, they will not amount to anything. " But I find today 

 that she is very glad to receive the money that has come from 

 them. 



