The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-06-17

cause of it's size and scope, encour-
aged the promoters of the enter
prise to begin plans for the 1909 ex-
hibition at this time.
Prizes and premiums of a total
value of $4,000 will be awarded to
exhibitors. These include tracts of
| irrigated and non-irrigated Ian is,
purses of gold, gold and silver trophy
cups, medals of special designs, rib
| bons and diplomas. The competitions
| in the various classes will be open
and free to all, the plan being to
have a sufficient wide variety to make
a world exhibition, and every ex-
hibitor will have a chance in the
awards, whether he enters in the car
load or in a plate competition.
| The board of trustees, headed by
E. F. Cartier Van Dissel, has already
taken cOgniZance of the fact that
larger space must be provided for
the displays this year. The trustees
fnow have plans in hand which will
give more room than was allotted last
year, when $4,000 square feet of
| floor space was filled to verflowing,
making it necessary to refuse exhib-
! it's after the opening day, as no adj
ditional room colud be prepared to
accommodate them.
While the primary purpose of the
National Apple show is to establish
standard, to assist growers in the
culture and marketing of the fruit
and to create and supply the increas-
| ing demand for the apple, it is de-
signed also to bring together the
growers and the men who handle the
products of orchards in a commercial
way, with a view toward the greater
development of the industry. An
other object is to demonstrate to the
people of the west the possibilities Of
intelligent intensive cultivation and
to show to the east the value to the
whole country of this development.
People Of every state, territory and
province of this continent are inter-
ested in the supply of food, fruit and
material for manufacture of every
district, not only because these are
! interchangeable through the process
of trade, but because a knowledge
of the total supply is necessary to the
intelligent treatment of each dis
trict's share of the supply. 1t will
be the purpose Of the National APP
pie show to arrange for the coopera-
ton of the growers Of the continent
and the entire world. each for it's
own good and all for the good of the
whole, toward the development and
betterment of the apple industry,
which Is destined to become the lead
err in the northwest in a very few
years.
Growers attending the first show
were enthusiastic in their praises of
the arrangement of the exhibits,
while fruit handlers of international
experience declared that nothing like
it had ever been attempted or carried
out so successfully. Three interests
were at stake in the first show: The
grower, the buyer and the public. All
expressed themselves as more than
satisfied with the results, while
! from an educational viewpoint, the
most important of all, the show was
of inestimable value to the growers.
The attendance was over the 100, 900
mark.
The judges made their awards on
merit, and disinterested persons, in
Guiding experts from the leading
fruit centers, declared that the dis
tribution of prizes was done in an in
telligent manner. The judges were
Maxwell Smith, Dominion fruit in
spector, British Columbia; Professor
John Craig, head of the department
of agriculture, Cornell university;
H. M. Dunlap, Savoy, H., president
National Apple Growers association;
R. w. Fisher. professor of agricul-
! ture. Montana Agricultural college;
is. A. Beach, horticulturist, Iowa
State college; Claude l. Lewis, pro-
fessor of general agriculture and
pomology, Oregon Agricultural col
lege; Professor J. r. Shinn, horti-
culturist, University of Idaho, and
Professor w. S. Thornber, horticul-
i turist, Washington State college.
/ Michael Koran Of this county re-
ceived the premier prize of $1,000
for a car of mixed apples, which
scored 961s Of possible 100 points.