The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-06-16
announce GRAD|NGS FOR
NATIONAL APPLE SHOW
Finally Adopted Score Which Places Winesaps at SO,
Thus Making It Impossible for Wenatchee to Enter
Contest and No Representation Will Be Made at
Spokane Fair This Year.

. Spokane, Wash, July 16.-Seven
changes in the quality ratings for
scoring exhibits at the third National
Apple Show in Spokane, November
IA to 10, are announced by E. F.
Cartier Van Dissel, chairman of the
board of trustees, which adopted at
its last meeting the recommended
lions made by growers in various
parts of the northwest in convention
at the exposition in 1909.
The changes are on Arkansas. Ar
kansas Black and Baldwin apples,
formerly rs and So respectively,
now scored CT under the new rat
ing; Delicious, formerly $40, now
SO; Mcintosh Req and Wealthy,
Formerly So and CT respectively,
now rs, and Winesap, formerly 7-S,
now SO. No changes were made
on the following varieties:
Ben Davis, As; Cox Orange Pip
pin, Gravenstein, Grimes Golden,
Jonathan, Yellow Newtown, Stayman
Winesap, White Pearmain, Winter
Banana, Yellow Bellfiower, King of
Tompkins County, Northern Spy,
SO; Rhode Island Greening and
Wagner, rs; Rome Beauty and
York Imperial, 81; Wolf River, Sc;
SpitZenberg, 10.
The chief point for discussion was
the question of raising the rating of
the Winesap, placing it on the same
quality basis with the Yellow New
town and the Grimes Golden. At the
request of the Wenatchee represen-
tatives the trustees sent kilograms
to commercial clubs in the larger
|apple growing districts also to grow
ers who exhibited carloads in 1909,
asking if the Wenatchee proposition
would be satisfactory to them.
Replies to the 6 kilograms sent
showed an even division of opinion.
Three commercial clubs were willing
a change should be made and three
clubs were opposed to it. Three car
load exhibitors were willing and
three others voted to the contrary.
Two responses were that the change
would be satisfactory provided the
Mcintosh Red were advanced an
other point. Two carload exhibitors
did not answer. AS the vote showed
such lack of unanimity, the trus-
tees did not feel justified in making
the change requested,
There is no more difficult prob
lem than proper scoring Of apples;
for quality" said Rem H. Rice, sec,
rotary of the National Apple show.
This is due largely to the fact that
in the Pacific northwest many varie-
ties are grown to a perfection that
is not reached anywhere else and
which command a price in the mar
ket far above the quality ratings for
merly placed upon these apples.
'The American Pathological So
ciety published a score card of quail
ity ratings on apples IA or Is years
ago, at which time few commercial
apples were raised in the northwest
and the ratings made by the society
were then considered a fair stand
ard. At various fruit shows in the
last IL years the old score card has
been a standard and after the first
apple show in Spokane many ex-
hibitors requested that the society's
score card be used for the 1909
show.
Arkansas, 7-8; Arkansas Black,
Sc; Baldwin, Sc; Ben Davis, As;
Cox Orange .Pippin, SO; Delicious, g.
10; Gravenstein, SO.
Protests were received soon after
the score card was announced and it
became evident that many of the
growers who requested the adoption
of the old score card were under the
impression that it had been revised.
Unfortunately, no such revision has
taken place, as the society does not
meet until 1911.
AT a meeting of the exhibitors
on the third day of the apple show
last year, the ratings of seven of the
leading varieties were considered
and after much discussion seven
changes were recommended. These
changes were lowering Arkansas
from 7-8 to 81; raising Arkansas
Black from So to 81; Baldwin from
So to 81; lowering Delicious from
$40 to SO; raising Mcintosh Red
from So to rs; raising Wealthy
from 6-7 to rs, and Winesap from
7-S to SO.
"A spirited contest resulted over
the Rome Beauty. many of the grow
ers contendhg that the rating of 6-7