Daily Los Angeles herald., 1880-10-07
LOS NIET0s VALLEY ExPOSI.

The Exposition Within an Erpssition-Probs-
bly, the Largest Apple Of History Exhibits
Hanging on the Trees.
| EDITOR HERALD: The farmers
Of Los Nietos Valley had some
thought Of getting up Fair Of their
own this Fall. But none of them
intended to exhibit at Horticul.
tural Pavilion. The intention
which was but Is not now Of not
exhibiting at the Pavilion, arose
upon two, might say three, rea-
sons. The third need not be men,
toned. but the first is that the
farmers of Los Nietos valley have
no land to sell, and therefore would
not exhibit a bean, walnut, orange
or pumpkin as an advertisement.
The second reason is that the local
credit of an exhibit is pretty much
lost in the last years method of
scattering the exhibits of each To-
cality all over horticultural Hall.
The mere credit or honor of max.
ing an exhibit is about all the mo.
tive prompting the average Nietan
to make an exhibit. Itmay safely
be added that another motive to
exhibit is to contribute to the in
struCtion and the qualification of
the multitudes who will throng
horticultural Hall. But, after ali,
this, too, 10 part and parcel of the
credit and honor motive. No one
will deny the superiority of these
motives over those of merely pc.
cuDiary nature. I would not, how
ever, seem to undervalue motives
OF . pecuniary nature. An indi.
vidual or q community enterpris-
Ing enough to set q desert to bloom
Ing and fruttiDg, to supplant the
coyote, the squirrel and the lonely
sheep.walk with a thrifty civiliza.
ton, aud who propose to make
more desert bloom, fruit bear and
civilize are to be commended even
though pecuniary motives are
among the mainsprings of their
action. Such an Individual or
community, long after pecuniary
motives have lost their force, will
be found among those who help to
fill Exposition Hall in order to
honor themselves, their neighhor.
hood. their county and Southern
California; In order 10 instruct and
to please others, both neighbor and
stranger:
l stated while ago that Nietan
farmers had thought Of holding q
Fair of their own this fall, and
with its abandonment had given
up tho intention Of exhibiting any.
thing anywhere. But now they
are making up their minds to have
A Los NIETos VALLEY EXPOSITION
At the city Of Los Angeles, in Hor-
ticultural Hall. There is to be set
off to Nietos valley a distinct sec.
tion Of the hall. This section is to
bs designated "Los Nietos Valley"
In large letters, readable from all
parts of the hall. The section will
be so completely separated from
the other sections Of the hall that
about the same degree of individu-
ality, separateness and local effect
will be secured as If the Nietans
had held their Fair in Downey
City or In Turnvelein Hall. But
in this Exposition within an Ex-
position, lettered "Los Nietos Val.
ley" each
Los NIETOs FARMER
VIII have his own exclusive de.
partment. While by this method
all the effects OF an independent
Fair will be enjoyed by the Met
ans. all the advantages of combi-
nation will be realized.
1t might be as well to glance at
the coming exhibits as they
HANG ON LOS NIETos TREES,
STALKS AND VINES.
Calling, last Monday, at the farm
Of Mr.. Harter, that gentleman, in
tho kindest manner, threw aside
the implements of husbandry to
show me the wonderful results of
the patient and judiclous handling
Of the implements. First were the
group OF pippin trees, one Of which
In 1879 produced an apple which
weighed A ounces. Mr.. Harter
presented this apple to the Hon.
Albert M. Stephens, Los Angeles.
The relative importance of Mr..
Harter's specimen on the score of
magnitude, In the opinion of those
supposed to know all about the
largest apples in the world, will ap.
pear from the following statement:
Nevada sent to Washington an ap-
pie weighing 20 ounces. This APP
pie was taken In plaster, painted
to life, and permanently placed on
exhibition at the National Depart
ment Of Agriculture as the large est
ofspeCimens. Oregon subsequently
sent an apple to Washington
weighing q few ounces more than
the Nevada apple. The Harter
pippin weighed many more ounces
than the Oregon specimen. Is it,
therefore, at all hazardous to say
that the Harter 44-ounce pippin
was the
| LARGEST APPLE IN AMERICA,
Or at any rate the largest apple
known to American pomological
records? These pippin trees are
now daily casting their globes upon
the ground. Last Saturday Mr..