The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-06-18
COMING APPLE SHOW
A BIG ONE
ARE THAT EXHIBIT
IN DECEMBER WILL BE A
RECORD BREAKER.

Spokane. June Widespread as
was the interest in the first National
|. Apple show in Spokane last winter,
when growers from various districts
of the northwest and other parts of
| the country exhibited their choicest
| specimens of the king of fruit in COM
| petition, ranging from II carload of
$40 boxes to single apple, there are
already many indications that the sue
cess of the second exposition sched-
| uled for the week of December to
II. will bring even greater results in
popularzing the apple as national
| fruit and food.
There are numerous reasons for
this, among others being the education
of the growers, handlers and dealers
to the fact that the apple is staple
product; that the market at home and
abroad is constantly increasingly; that
prices for clean fruit of color, size and
flavor are advancing: that the de-
mand was never greater than at the
present time, and that such q thing
as production is entirely out of
question, and will be, experts say,
for two or three centuries.
Perhaps the most important factor
in creating a demand for apples, and
more especially for the commercial
varieties produced in the northwest
was the world wide exploitation of
the mammoth exhibition of fruit in
Spokane last December Thousands
of columns of space in the daily and
lwceltly press and agricultural jour-
nails and magazines were devoted to
I n
of which attracted the attention not
only of all America. but also was
heralded in England, France, Ger
many, scotland, Ireland China, Japan
and the Latin republics.
1t is Interesting to note that boxes
from the prize winning exhibits at the
first show We're sold in Covent Car
den London, last winter at the high
est prices ever offered for fruit. The
rich coloring. uniform size and ex-
quisite flavor compelled the attention
of the foremost pomologists and deal
ers in Europe and appealed to the
consumers, and as a result inquiries
are coming from various parts of
England and the continent for detailed
information about apples grown in
the northwest. &' -..- .&
s.., Encouraging.
The success of the first show which
was an ambitious undertaking be-
cause of its size and scope. encour-
aged the promoters Of the enterprise
l to begin plans for the 1909 exhibition
at this time. %
1 Prizes and premiums of total
lvalue of $4,000 viii be awarded to ex-
1 hibitors. These include tracts OF r-
| rigated and non-irrigated lands.
purses of gold, gold and silver trophy
"ups 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 sufficiently wide variety to
; make a world exhibition, and every
exhibitor will have chance in the
awards, whether he enters in the car
load class or in nlate competition.
The board Of trustees, headed by e.
: taken cognizance of the fact that
larger space must be provided for the
ldisplays this year. The trustees now
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 overlooking. making it
necessary to refuse exhibits after the
opening day, as no additional room
could be prepared to accommodate
, them. x
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 growers
and the men who handle the products
of orchards in a commercial way,
with a view toward the greater de-
velopment of the industry Another
object is to demonstrate to the people
of the west the possibilities of intel
ligent extensive 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
other district not only because these
, are Interchangeable through the pro-
cess of trade, but because a knowl-
edge of the total supply is necessary
to the intelligent treatment of each
districts share of the supply. 1t will
COMING APPLE SHOW-TWO
be the purpose of the National apple
show to arrange for the corporation
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
4 which is destined to become the
leader in the northwest in a very few
: years.
Praise Exhibits.
Growers attending the first show
were enthusiastic In their praises OF
the arrangement of the exhibits, while
fruit handlers of International expert.
ence declared that nothing like it ha6
lever been attempted or carried ou
SO successfully. Three interests were
at stake in the first show: The
grower, the buyer and the public Al
expressed themselves as more thar
satisfied with the results, while from
an educational viewpoint, the mos1
important of all, the show was Oh in.
estimabe value to the growers. The
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