Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-11-27
APPLE SHOW DEC. Z
GREAT EVENT AT SPOKANE
LASTS FIVE DAYS.
President Roosevelt Will Open it
Cash Prizes Amounting to Thou
sands Of Dollars given-Special Rates
on Railroads-Farmers' Congress to
Meet at Same Time.

Five million apples, representing
every variety grown in the world and
including the best products of 81 states
in the union, four provinces in Canada,
England, Germany, France, Scotland
Wales, Denmark and Japan, have been
entered in the various competitions for
premiums amounting to $4,000 at the
National Apple Show in Spokane, De-
cember z to IL. The prizes range from
$500, for the best car of standard
commercial winter apples, to S. for
place of five apples, besides trophies,
medals and ribbons. There are also
Individual prizes of $1,000 and $500 and
ID orchard tfacts of from two to ten
acres of land, valued at from $3.50 to
$500, with apple trees and perpetual
water right. Judges of national repu-
tation in the United States and Canada
will make the awards.
President Roosevelt will open the
exposition by telegraph from Washing
ton, d. c., the morning of December Z,
when Harry J. Nicely, secretary and
manager of the association, says, more
than $4,000 square feet of apples will
be displayed in the state armory and
adjoining temporary structures. State
officials of Washington, Idaho, Oregon,
Montana, Colorado, Wyoming and Utah
and officials of several provinces in
Canada, as well as representatives from
Europe, will be in attendance. The
Country Life commission, appointed by
President Roosevelt, and headed by
Prof. L. Fl. Bailey of Ithaca, N. Y,
and the Washington State Horticultural
association, of which H. M. Gilbert of
North Yakima is president, will have
sessions in Spokane during the week.
Pomologists of international reputa-
ton will discuss subjects of world wide
interest and there will be demonstra-
tions by domestic science departments
of the Washington State college and
other state institutions in the Pacific
Northwest, also exhibitions of nipple
ments and apparatus used in orchard
ing. There will also be demonstrations
touching every branch of the apple in
dustry and displays of by-products,
showing the various uses of the apple
as a wholesome food and a healthful
fruit. The competitions are open to
the world and no entry fee is charged
or are exhibitors required to pay for the
space occupied by their exhibits. An
other thing is that the fruit entered
in the competition remains the property
of the exhibitor.
The railroads have made rates equal
to less than one fare and third for
first class round trip tickets from all
parts of the continent.
The amusement and educational feat
ures include afternoon and evening con-
certs by the National Apple Show band
of 40 pieces, vaudeville, exhibitions
and demonstration machinery and ap-
paratus, demonstrations and lectures on
the various uses of the apple as food
and fruit by the department of do
nestle sicence of the Washington State
college, demonstrations of sorting ma
chimes and scientific packing, lectures
on horticulture and branches by ex-
perts of national reputation, address by
Prof. P. J. O'Gara, assistant patholo-
gist bureau of plant industry, Wash
ington, D. c., lecture and demonstra-
ton by Prof. Frank G.. Odell on bee
keeping. He will exhibit in screened
Enclosure $4,000 bees, performing inter
esting and novel feats with them.
Among tn speakers at the Washing,
CAo4o uor+;o,,1furo1 aScooiatiOn ron
vention will be George W. R. Peasley,
Charleston, Wash; A. F. Crowell, dep
uty state horticultural inspector, Spo'
kane; J. F. Strong, Spokane; Prof. W.
S. Thornber, Washington State college
Pullman; Prof. F. A. Huntley, state
horticultural commissioner, Tacoma;
George E. Bryant, Seattle; H. L. Nc
Intyre, C. E., Spokane; Cyrus L.
Smith, Spokane; DR.. Granville Lowther
North Yakima; w. H. Paulhamus
Puyallup; Prof. J. Shirley Jones, Mos
COW; Prof. j. R. Shinn, Moscow; j. M
Brown, North Yakima; Prof. R. Kent
Beattie, Pullman; Prof. A. L. Melander
Pullman; E. A. Bryan, president Wash
ington State college, Pullman; E. Fl
Shepard, Hood River, Ore; J. L. Du
mas, Dayton; William P. Sawyer
Parker, Wash; John Craig, New York
experimental station, Cornell univer
sity, Ithaca, N. Y, and H. M. Bartlett
Kennewick.
Apple growers see more attractions
in the National Apple Show than the
magnificent premiums offered. From al
educational viewpoint they believe II
will prove it's greatest success and with
out doubt the most important in the
history of apple culture. There will b'
public banquet by the people of Spo
kane in honor of the judges, exhibitors
and visiting growers.
December 4 and are the date'
set by the Country Life commission
for it's hearing in Spokane. In add
ton there will be eight sessions of thu
Washington State Horticultural associ
alton at it's fifth annual convention, De
eember and 10, and numerous recep
tons, concerts, theater parties an'
other social affairs, with side trips t.