Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-11-17

ties, grown and packed by exhibitor.
100 fruit trees, donated by the Mil
waukee Nurseries, won by Frank
Holman, Albany.
No. 3-Best Commercially packed
8 boxes, three varieties grown by
any number of Albany Apple Grow
ers' Association. 100 apple trees,
donated by Albany Nurseries, won by
Frank Holman, Albany.
No. 4-Best Pyramid display of
Baldwins. First prize, So cash, won
by w, L. Grove, Tangent. Second
prize, one Kansas pruning knife, do
mated by International Tool Co., of
Detroit, Mich, wo by Henry Struck
meyer, Thomas.
No. Best Pyramid display of
Kings. First prize, So cash. won by
Harold Rumbaugh, Albany. Second
prize, one Kansas pruning knife, won
by w. L. Grove, Tangent
No. 6-Best Pyramid display of
Spitzenbergs. First prife, $5 cash,
won by Harold Rumbaugh, Albany.
Second prize, one Happy Thought
pruning knife, won by John Durlan,
Lebanon.
No. BEST Pyramid display of
Red Cheek Pippins. First prize, So
cash, won by S. p. Williamson, Oak
vile. Second prize, one Happy
Thought pruning knife, won by
Frank Holman.
Prizes for the Whoppers.
No. S-Best collection of so ap-
ples, one or more varieties, arranged
in pyramid shape, weight only to
count. First prize, $40, won by A.
W. Martin, Albany.
No. 9-Largest epple. prize, al
Kansas pruning knife, won by A. w.
Martin, Albany.
The increasing production of ap-I
pies in the Northwest has furnished
a problem which the great railway
systems centering in Saint Paul will
have to solve. Howard Elliott presi-
dent. of the Northern Pacific, also
president of the National Apple
Show, in his opening address dis
| cussed the question from various
standpoints.
Despite the fact that thousands of
new trees have been planted and the
1910 crop of apples in the Yakima
Valley, Washington, the Bitter Root
Valley, Montana, the Wenatchee dis
trict on the Great Northern in Ore
gon and the various apple districts
in Idaho is the largest for several
years, the demand for apples and the
new markets opened in all parts of
the world will take every apple
raised.
1t is the getting of these epples to
market with which the railroads are
concerned. American apples are al
ways at premium in Europe Far
away Egyptians have taken to the
fruit and want all they can get of it.
Australia on the other side of the
globe has a growing appetite for
this country's apples. In our own
country where the apple is regarded
as the most health giving of fruits
the demand is increasing and thus
the railroads find themselves facing
the problem of transporting the fruit.
One of the new ideas that is sug-
gested by President Elliott is the
erection in the great producing dis
tricts of apple storage houses. He
will recommend that the apples in
stead of being picked from the trees
and rushed to the cars, be placed in
these storage houses where they will
be preceded 1t has been found |
that preceded apples keep better and
taste better than those that are
cooled in refrigerator cars while in
transit.
There are other advantages in this |
plan of storing the apples near the ,
orchards in which they are grown.
It is believed for one thing, that the
grower will be able to get a better
price for his product by holding it
and shipping when market conditions
are improved. The grower also will
have more time for handling his crop
and will not have to rush it to the
trains.
The apple production In the Yaki-
ma Valley this year will amount TO
5000 cars and it has been estimated
that the establishment OF new
orchards in this district alone will
mean the production of 5000 car
loads at the end of five years. The
output Of the other districts will be
proportionately large.
The Northern Pacific railway has
found 1t necessary TO run solid re-
frigerator trains OF 35 cars each on
a 91-hour schedule from points In
the Yakima Valley to st. Paul, which
is almost passenger train speed. 1t
is doubtful II any railroad in. the
country has $1,000 refrigerator cars
that can be used for the hauling OF