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sold any more Ben Davis apple trees. They were all White 

 Pippin. 



Mr. Masters: When I was raising apples down near Neb- 

 raska City, I used to sell wind-falls. A man came to my place 

 one day, when I had mostly Ben Davis on the ground. He asked 

 me what varieties I had, and I told him they were mostly Ben 

 Davis. He said, "I would like to buy Ben Davis, but I cannot 

 sell them in Omaha. " I told him to sell them as something 

 else. They have several different names you know. I told him 

 to call them New York Pippin, and he would sell every one in 

 the whole lot. He went to Omaha. A man came along to his 

 wagon and asked him what kind of apples he had. He told him 

 they were New York Pippin. The gentleman looked at them. 

 He had just come from a wagon load of hand-picked Ben Davis. 

 He came up to the wagon load of wind-falls called New York 

 Pippin and said. "I want ten bushels of these. " Inside of half 

 an hour this man had sold out his entire load. That's what a 

 name will do. 



G. A. Marshall: It is hot right to take my name in vain as has 

 been done here this afternoon. But going back to Mr. Pollard's 

 side of the discussion about the better grocers who would not 

 buy his Ben Davis, I venture to say that there is not a grocery 

 firm in Omaha, Chicago, Detroit or Buffalo that does nv)t handle 

 the Ben Davis. They do not buy them of Mr. Pollard, however, 

 because they can buy Ben Davis of anybody, and they can buy 

 their other varieties from only a few people. When these gro- 

 cery firms want Grimes Golden, Jonathan and such varieties, 

 they have to go to the people who grow them, and consequently 

 they go to Mr. Pollard. I expect he has more varieties than 

 any other party in the state. 



Now if you should take the Ben Davis out of the west here, 

 many places would be practically without apples. We cannot 

 afford to condemn any variety that holds up like that. In Chi- 

 cago, Buffalo and Detroit you find more Ben Davis on the mar- 

 ket in the month of January than all other varieties put together. 

 The poorer classes of people want apples, and the Ben Davis 

 exists in such quantities that the poor man's children can eat it. 

 So I say we ought not to condemn the Ben Davis. 



