58 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



REPORTS OF DISTRICT DIRECTORS. 



Morning session of January 16, 1890. 



After calling the meeting to order, President Taylor asked for the 

 report of the director of the southeastern district, Samuel Barnard. 



Barnard — Mr. President, I have no written report to offer, but 

 will state as briefly as possible what I know in regard to fruit grow- 

 ing in the southeastern district. 



I sent out a good many blanks to prominent fruit growers, but re- 

 ceived only a few replies ; the method seems to be no good, and we 

 must adopt some other if we wish to get any satisfactory reports. 



This has been a year of profit in fruit growing in quantity, quality, 

 and price. Whoever has had fruit has made money, and who has had 

 no fruit can ascribe his failure to neglect. 



As I have said before, the Society must adopt some other means of 

 obtaining reports, and I would suggest that it might be a good plan 

 to appropriate money to send men out in the field to collect such sta- 

 tistics as we may see fit to obtain. 



REPORT OF DIRECTOR OF THE NORTHEASTERN DISTRICT. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, of the Nebraska State Hor- 

 ticultural Society : In making my report for the northeastern district, 

 I will give you some idea of our orchards as I find them in traveling 

 over two or three of the river counties. We will take Washington, 

 Burt, Dakota and Dixon counties. Washington having held a foremost 

 rank as a fruit growing county in the state for quite a number of 

 years and probably has some trees that have been . in bearing nearly 

 as long as any trees in the state, and some of these old trees seem to 

 be healthy and promise usefulness for years to come. But the 

 majority of the bearing orchards of Washington county and Burt 

 also were planted from twelve to sixteen years ago. J. K. Moulton 

 & Co., of Minneapolis, Minn., and a firm of dealers of Blair, Neb., 



