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fruit to grow in almost any portion of Nebraska. Cherries have al- 

 ways brought us $2 and often $3 a bushel, marketing usually in flats, 

 baskets, and boxes. We find that fruit that can be marketed per- 

 fectly fresh, early in the day, from the near-by plantation, will bring 

 from two to five cents a quart than that which is shipped in from a 

 distance. Grapes also, which are marketed perfectly fresh, early in 

 the mornino;, arrive in much better condition than those which are 

 shipped in and bring better prices. We notice in the handling of 

 cherries, that those who get their cherries after they have been ship- 

 ped a hundred miles, or after they have been picked five or six hours 

 have no real conception of the flavor of fruit fresh from the tree. 

 All these facts are in favor of the grower who lives near his market. 

 Probably our cherry crop has been as satisfactory a crop for us to 

 handle, and has given us as much profit a tree or acre, as anything we 

 have handled. Single trees have yielded us $6.80, selling the fruit at 

 wholesale, and have proved a fairly remunerative crop, the fourth year 

 after planting, and from that time forward whenever the season was 

 favorable. 



Grapes will be found on the whole, a safer and easier crop, proba- 

 bly, to establish, and to grow and market to advantage. We have 

 found it advantageous to select a warm exposure, which, with us, 

 happened to be southerly and southeasterly, sheltered from the west 

 and slightly from the north. On grounds like these we find that the 

 Concord ripens a week or ten days earlier than on different soils and 

 exposures. On a soil and exposure of this character we are able to 

 commence marketing our earliest varieties of grapes early in August, 

 and our crop is all sold, usually, by the 1st of September. This in- 

 cludes the Concord. We regard Moore's Early, Cottage, Worden, and 

 Concord, as with us, profitable. Moore's Early, Cottage, and Worden 

 are all earlier than the Concord, and all of fairly good quality. I 

 do not think we can successfully compete in this part of the state 

 with the eastern states in the growing of the Concord for late mar- 

 ket, and which are sold in car lots, late in the fall, at prices so low 

 that we cannot conveniently compete with them. Or rather, we can 

 make more money by growing grapes that come into market earlier 

 and are out of the way before theirs compete with ours. In this way 

 we are sure of the best prices. 



Now in regard to marketing grapes. While the man who grows 



