Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1900-04-03
AMERICauFI'U'T EXHIBIT

Large Shipment of Apples Sent
to the Paris Exposition.
OVER TWO. THOUSAND BARRELS.
said to he the Finest Exhibit Of Ap~
Pies the United states Has Ever
Made-California viii send Fort-
.ixhtly skspnents Of Fruit - In
structivs Feature Of the Display.
The st. Paul recently carried across
the Atlantic the United States exhibit
Of apples for the Paris exposition. 1t
ID pronounced by those who have had
charge of the collection, storage and
shipment Of this fruit to be the finest
exhibit Of apples ever made by the
United States. There are In all about
$500 barrels, representing the or.
chards of the entire country, says
the Washington correspondent Of the
New York Sun. As the exhibit was
q volunteer one, some states have
very large collections, and others, while
sending smaller exhibits, are thorough.
~ represented. California has 25O bar.
rels. and Missouri sends from her mag
nificent orchards In the Ozark noun
tains about 200 barrels. There are
large exhibits from Michigan, Illinois.
New York, Indiana, Pennsylvania and
North Carolina. Virginia, Connecticut
and West Virginia are represented by
very choice examples Of great mum
Der of varieties, although the aggre
gate In each is not large. New York
sends 200 bushel boxes, showing the
standard line Of best keeping winter
apples.
All these collections nave been made
under direction Of the division OF po'
mology Of the department Of agricul.
ture. chiefly under the superintendent.
cy Of Colonel Bracket, the pomolosist
and his assistant. MIR. w. A. Taylor
the secretary Of the American Pomo.
logical society. Mr. Taylor sailed for
Paris a few days ago to get ready for
the arrival of this exhibit and install
it IN it's place In the United States
building. All these apples are double
wrapped, first with parchment butter
paper and then with the regular apple
fruit wrappers made Of manila tissue
From the moment these various eXhib.
Its were picked and packed especial
care was taken to insure the best con
dition of preservation. The fruit was
collected at various cold storage cen
tiers and shipped In refrigerator cars to
New York and placed in large cold
storage compartment on the st. Paul
leased by the government for the trip
The only time that these apples will be
out of cold storage since they came out
Of the orchards will be during the few
hours when they are In transit from
Havre to Paris. as the French have no
refrigerator cars.
One Of the finest features Of the hor-
tic6ltural exhibit will be furnished by
the Californians, whose legislature ap-
propriated $4,000 for the purpose.
They intend to send all during the fruit
season this coming summer, fortnight.
~, specimens in refrigerator cars and
the refrigerator compartments of the
ocean steamers of pears, plums and
peaches. They will also send grapes
as soon as the new crop comes In.
The horticultural exhibit will be open
ed April Is. and there will be a con
tinuous exhibit of all American fruits
splendid effort to have IN exhibition Of
Catawba grapes ut the opening In
April and had an agent at Hammonds-
port, N. Y, to make the selections last
fall. But the early frost on Oct. 20
made 1t impossible to get Catawbus
that would keep until April. There
will also be exhibited In connection
with the fresh fruits a large exhibit Of
canned and dried fruit Of every de.
scription known to the American mar
ket and q varied and extensive collec-
ton of vegetables.
The most instructive feature of the
exhibit will appear In a large number
of photographs. showing every phase
in the business Of raising fruit IN our
large commercial orchards. There is
a large collection also on the Ornamen.
tai side of American horticulture. 1t
is the aim of the apple growers in the
United States to break down II posi-
BILE this year, by the exhibit of fruit at
Paris, the prejudice of Germany
against our apples. All the leading
German horticulturists have been in
vited to make special examination Of
the American exhibit. The Germans
have barred out our apples, and even
our dried fruits, on the ground that
the San Jose scale, which Is very de.
Of orchards, would be car
rieda into their country on the fruit.
Leading scientists Of the United States
and Of Germany also have proved sew
eral times by experiments that this
cannot be the case. Still our fruit Is
kept out Of Germany. The department
officials are confident that the great
battle between science and prejudice
will be fought out successfully at Paris
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