The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-11-03
APPLE GROWERS TO
HAVE STATE SHOW
Scientific Way of Getting Re
suits Will Be Demon
strated.

INDIANAPOLIS. Nov. 3.-A new
kind OF school, with present and pros
pective apple growers as the pupils.
will be conducted at TomlinsOn hall
next week 1t will form one OF the
educational features OF the Indiana
apple show, which opens on Monday
night The instructors will be Pro-
lessor j. Throop, 6. G. Woodbury., and
other members of the horticultural
STAFF of Purdue university: state en-
tomologist G. II. Baldwin, Everett
Smith and ID. w. Erbaugh, of Mr..
Baldwins official staff, and w. b..
Douglass, former state entomologlst.
Expert packers and graders OF APP
pies will also be on the list OF teach
ers in the school. which will begin
with the rudiments of apple growing
and follow orchard work down to the
time that perfect apples are placed IN
the hands of the consumer
The school will be for Hoosier or
chardists who have been growing fruit
for years. but who do not know all
the scientific methods now applied to
combat the San Jose scale and var
a school for the city men and women
who are land hungry and are expect
ing some day to have a small orchard.
The instruction will begin with the
kind OF soil apple trees grow best IN,
how to plant both large and small
orchards where the trees will have
the best air drainage, or avoid settling
mists and fOgs; how to select trees,
no VITO plant them; how to prune that
the head of a tree may, when 1t comes
into bearing, have every apple on 1T
in reach from a step-ladder: how to
use orchard heaters and save crop
when Il late frost comes in early
spring; how to spray and what to
spray with, and the time for doing the
work that the coddling moth and other
pests may be driven out all of these
and mOny more, are some of the
topics.
In addition to the talks and lee.
lures. practical demonstrations in the
use OF ordchard machinery, that per-
feet apples may be grown, will be
given. But this is not all that a sue
cessful grower of apples must know.
After the big fruit is hanging on the
tree the grower must know how to get
it from the branches without bruising.
He must know how to get the apples
to the sorting table how to grade them
for size and color, and how to pack
them in boxes that they may be safely
sent to the consumer.
Two things have made the coming
apple show very popular with all the
apple growers. The school of instruc-
ton has been strong factor to this
end The other has been the fact that
II grower has this year produced
quantities of perfect apples, he may
win some Of the $4,000 offered in
pdiZes, or he may carry away as prem
iums some Of the machinery that will
be awarded.
The whole show is to be popular
school of instruction for the apple con-
Stunning public, for. with about five
thousand bushels of fruit on eXhibi-
ton, it is expected that Hoosiers will
be convinced that Indiana apples are
as large. as highly favored as those
from the orchards Of the Pacific north
west, of Michigan and New York, and
that Indiana apple consumers can
spend at home for the fruit the $4,000
600 or 100000 they each year send
out of the state for apples.