The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-02-25

winning $500 prize. Kress & Karey
| of Hamilton, Mont, were third with q
car of Mcintosh reds, winning $20(
and 1000 standard apple trees. The
balance Of the $685. was distributed
to other competitors in other compe
| titions.
| The officiating inspectors were Max
well Smith, Dominion Fruit Inspector
of British Columbia; Prof. John Craig
head of the Department of Agricul
ture of Cornell University of Ithica,
| N. Y, H. M. Dunlap, of Savoy, ILL.,,
president of National Apple Growers
| Association; R. w. Fisher, professor
of agriculture of Montana Agricultur-
al College; S. A. Beach, horticultural
ist,, Iowa Agricultural College; Prof.
J. R. Shinen. horticulturalist of Univ
ersity of Iowa; Prof. w. S. Thomber,
| horticulturalist of Washington State
College, and Claud Y. Lewis, profes-
sor of general agriculture and pomo-
logy of Oregon Agricultural College.
Mr. Horan said: "This is the first
time 1 ever exhibited fruit. The ap-
| pies were picked by one man and
packed by another. Our average was
ten boxes day, requiring two months
to prepare the exhibit Every care
was taken to pack without blemish,
bruise or scratch. Before the award
| was made 1 would not have taken five
dollars a box for the apples" Q was
| told by an intimate friend of Mr.. Ho-
| ran that he got $4,000 for the carr
my orchard should yield $4,000 box
es of pears, $4,000 boxes of peaches
| and $1,000 boxes of apples in 1909. |
had no practical knowledge of scienti-
fic fruit growing until few years ago
At that time the land was worth 500
per acre. That was in 1900 when the
first trees were set out. l have refus-
ed an offer of $4,000 per acre or $780,
900 for the tract. / would not take
| $250,O0O for the orchard today"
Mr.. Gilbert, winner of the second
prize, who entered a straight carload
of winesaps for the purpose of show
ing visiting fasteners what car
load looked like, said: THE orchard
is set out where ten years ago sage
brush was growing. At that time
cleared twenty acres and set out a
portion of it to apple trees, growing
garden truck between the rows. In
the third year i finished setting out
trees and put in apricot, peaches and
pears as filters. In the last six years,
the peaches have yielded 81 900 per
acre. The entire orchard this year
yielded 800 boxes of pears, $500 box
cS Vi pSdC2ISS, OUO DOASS VI
1000 boxes of apples and some cher
ries. My exhibit at the show repre-
sents one-f1fth of the crop grown on
three and one-half acres of eight and
ten year old trees"
Many of the exhibits from eastern
states were ruined in transit by being
taken out of cold storage and placed
in too warm cars. / saw several of
these exhibits.
During the week 107, 900 people Wis
tied the national show at Spokane.
There were demonstrations in spray
ing, packing and with measuring ma
chimes etc.
Seventeen young women of the do
mestic science department of Wash
ington State College, under Miss L.
Gertrude Mackay, were in attendance
the whole week and taught house-wiv
eS how to prepare apples in 125 differ
ent ways. They fed 10000 persons
during the week. Say, those
ladies could prepare apples so they
would melt right in your mouth.
The Washington Agricultural Asso-
citation met during the week and the
talks were very interesting and in
structive. Some of the subjects were
planting orchards, varieties of trees,
cultivation, irrigation, spraying, etc.
We attended several of these meet
ings.
1 think horticultural association
would be great help to the Pecos
Valley apple growers.
At the close of the National Apple
Show at Spokane many of the exhib-
itors met and voted to have another
national apple show at Spokane in
1909. The date will be given out later.
1 would recommend that all who can,
| go by all means and take along an ex-
| hibit. Let the people in the world
know that we can and do raise fine
apples in the Pecos Valley. The grow
ers of the Northwest are ahead of us
on color, but to my taste, they can't
beat our apples. 1 think it is not pos
sible for anyone to see an apple show
like the one / saw in Spokane and not
get excited and i hope some Of
| the Pecos Valley apple growers will
| take away some of the first prizes,
there this year but they will have to
get a move on them il they do.