The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1910-12-01
EXHIBIT GOES
TO PORTLAND
AND FROM THERE TO new YORK
Prizes are Awarded at tne Hood River
Fruit Fair Which Closed
Last Saturday.

The Hood River apple show ended
Saturday night and the exhibit, which
consisted of 625 boxes, was immedi-
ately packed up and shipped to the
Portland meeting of the Oregon State
Horticultural Society, which is being
held this week Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday, at the Majestic Theater
building. Officers of the society came
up Saturday and arranged for the ex-
hlbit there, which will be in charge of
G. K. Cashier and c. ID. Thompson.
The attendance this year was not as
large as was expected owing to the
coldsweather, and the fact that there
We're several other apple shows held
before at other places. The Portland
crowd was snot large, many of them
waiting to see the exhibit at Portland.
AS stated last week, however, the
quality was the best ever placed on
exhibition, and the arrangement to
send the exhibit to Portland is a good
one. The exhibit will also be sent to
New York to be exhibited at the auto
mobile show the middle of January.
and will be seen by quarter of a mil
hon people. This will be an advertise
ment worth while, and will do great
deal of good lin section where we sell
the bulk of our apples G. X. Cas-
tner, president, c. d. Thompson.
secretary, and G. X. Marshall had
entire charge of the fair, and the
experience of the two former in other
years was especially valuable in max
ing the fair a success.
The judge did not complete their
labors of awarding the prizes until Fri
day evening, and in most cases it
was difficult to make a decision,
All the exhibits were so nearly per-
feet as to call for the strictest ex-
The following are the
prize winners:
Best ten-box display, any variety,
not more than three boxes of one
variety, cup. l.. Carter, first; Home
Orchard Company, second.
Best tve-boX display, one or more
varieties. cup-A. Hukari, first; H.
.. Sieverkropp, second. Best box
Spitzenbergs, SO and larger-W. Fike.
first; Lawrence & Smith, second.
Best box Newtowns, SO and larger
M. VI. Hill, first; Home Orchard Com
pany, second.
Best box Ortleys William Ehrck,
first; Mohr Bros, second.
Best box Baldwius c. X. Benton.
first; W. E. Clark, second.
Best box Arkansas Blacks-Law-
renee q Smith, first; Nj. M. Hill,
second.
Best box Jonathans W. Fike, first
N. w. Bone, second
Best box Baldwns G. X. Benton,
first; W. Il. Clark, second.
MEDAL PRIZES.
Best box Ben Davis W. Fike.
Best box Delicious-W. + Sherman.
Best box Gravenstein-Lond &
Powers.
Best box Hydes King Home Or
chard Company.
Best box King of Tompkins County
w. Fke.
Best box Northern Spy Epping &
Rallies.
Best box Black Twig g-H. o. Siever-
kropp.
Best Box Roxbury Russet- Maxwell
ton Orchard.
Best box Rhode Island Greenings--
W. f. Clark.
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Best box Wagne~-Maxwelton Or
chard.
Best box Winter Banana-D. E.
Miller.
Best box Red Cheeks Hood River
Land & Apple Company.
Rest box Van Devere- +. Shelley
Morgan.
Best box Genetan--R. Pooley.
SPECIAL PRIZES.
Best packed five boxes, prize gold
watch offered by j. C. Pearson &
Walter Weber, Hood River;
second prize, SIS, won by II. C.
Kramer.
Best general plate dsplay-J. l..
Carter.
1t has been suggested by a number
of exhibitors of the recent apple fair
that much benefit would result from
the publication of the scores of the
judges. Secretary G. D. Thompson
the scores of the leading
for which cups were
awarded. The general plan of the
judges was to score two or three of
the most promising of each class,
then eliminate those which by the
score of the top layer would fall below
the ones already scored In the 10
box class three boxes of each were
scored and the average of the three
made the score of the exhibit.