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gether. You have a program going on now, and I just want to 

 be a listener. I want to sit down and enjoy the remainder of 

 your program this afternoon. I thank you, Mr. President and 

 fellow-workers for this welcome. (Applause.) 



The President: These Horticultural Reports here are for 

 free distribution. Any who care for them are entirely welcome 

 to help themselves. The next subject on our program this 

 afternoon is "Results of the Fruit Exhibit at St. Louis," by 

 E. M. Pollard. 



RESULTS OF THE FRUIT EXHIBIT AT ST. LOUIS. 



BY E. M. POLLARD, NEHAWKA. 



Mr. Pollard: Mi\ President, Ladies and Gentlemen: Sep- 

 tember first, 1903, 1 received my appointment as Superintendent 

 of the Horticultural Department for the Nebraska Commission 

 to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition held in the city of St. 

 Louis from April 30th to December 1st, 1904. Immediately 

 upon my appointment I began the collection of fruit to be placed 

 in cold storage for use during the earlier part of the Exposition. 

 On account of the extremely poor quality of our apples in 1903 

 I found it very difficult to find fruit suitable for exhibition pur- 

 poses. I finally succeeded however in collecting sixty-six bar- 

 rels and twenty nine boxes of apples and one-half barrel of 

 pears which were placed in cold storage with the Mound City 

 Ice and Cold Storage Company of St. Louis, Mo. I secured 

 block six in the Palace of Horticulture as the space for the Neb- 

 raska exhibit at the Exposition. Our space was in the shape 

 of a parallelogram and covered seventeen hundred and ninety- 

 five square feet. On account of the small amount of money 

 available for the department of Horticulture the Hon. Commis- 

 sion thought even this was more space than our funds would 

 enable us to maintain. Consequently at the west end of the 

 space we erected a Grape arbor which was simple, yet unique 

 in design. In keeping with the arbor we enclosed the space 

 with a rustic fence. The rustic appearance of our booth gave 

 a very pleasing effect. Being entirely different from anything 



