The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-12-13
K|NSEY; TELLS
ABOUT FRUIT
Gives Interesting Details of the
Competition in New York
Where Yakima Won
DEALERS PLACE VALLEY
THIRD FOR ITS PRODUCT
But Say That So Long as a High
Standard Is Maintained There
Is No Likelihood of Over Pro-
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duction
Frank S. Kinsey, who was in New
York in charge of the apples shown
at the land show there from terri
tory adjacent to the Northern Pacific
railway. has returned to North Yak
ina. He has brought back with him
a fund of information of value to
local fruit producers. In the first
place he is another to say that over
production of apples will never result
so long as the valley produces, grades
and packs out a high quality of fruit.
The trade in New York, he says,
places Hood River first, Wenatchee
second and Yakima third as to the
fruit package turned out for CONNER
cial purposes. Mr.. kinsey says the
east can and does produce a splendid
apple and it behooves the west to
keep moving. equality" day of New
York, of the firm of Sgobel d Day,
sent back word to his friends here
TO work all the year around. Prune
trees in the winter, prepare the soil,
spay, thin the fruit and DO all the
things necessary to make good apples
and do them all the time and keep
doing them. This, he says. is the way
to keep in front.
Standard Apple Box
There is to be selected standard
apple box, Mr.. kinsey says, and he
was able to say great deal in favor
of the northwest box, which the deal
ers now seem to favor AS part of the
display in New York he showed a
packed box of apples, similar lot I'M
packed but loose in d box and a SINH
lar quantity in two half bushel meas
ures. 1t was only by this method that
he could make the people believe how
much fruit a northwest box contains.
For the benefit of people here in
terested in the New York display Mr..
kinsey prepared the following:
Views of Mr.. Kinscy
Some curiosity has been manifested
as to the points which enabled the
twenty-five boxes of Winesaps exhibit
ed by Mrs. Ella d. Rowland at the
recent land show in New York to win
the first prize. Perhaps the matter
can be best understood by first be-
| coming acquainted with the score card
ing. The unit of perfection for an
exhibit was placed at 1000. divided
into six separate items; which, with
the value of each, were as follows:
quality 200, color 200, size 100, uni
formity 100, condition 200, pack 200.
The pack was judged on five points,
the value of each of which was 40.
These points We're, bulge. alignment
height at ends, compactness, attract
iveness and style. Although this card
can probably be improved upon, and
may be by the time such another
competition comes up, still it is I'M
doubleday the best one that has been
framed up in the past. 1t was used
both this year and last at the apple
show in Spokane.
Commercial Judging
1t should be understood that the
| judging was done from commercial
standpoint. The perfect sizes We're
considered to be those that number,
ed from So to 12S to the box. Most
of the apples on exhibit scpred per-
fectly as to this point. The quality
ratings of the American Pomologica
society was not used, for that would
practically have limited competition
to the Spitzenberg. All the apples
We're given a perfect mark on tbs
first point of the score, or more
properly, quality was not regarded al
all. Uniformity had reference to the
size and type in any single box. AS
to condition, so much as half a stem
gone from an apple counted for a
small fraction against it. When Il
-,
pack, the man who had his apples
packed up in the building would have
possessed an advantage over the mar
who shipped his across the continent
in the shape in which they We're to
| be exhibited. had not some allowance
been made for the length of time tina
they had been packed. In Judging OF
the style of pack. the question wa!
taken into consideration as to whether
the apples We're properly or improp
erlY placed into a 20 or n 80 pack
and square pack was severity cut
To the expert packers of the north
west, it may seem amusing that tho
eastern apple growers who are be
ginning to pack in the northwes
standard and the California speca
boxes get badly confused as to wher
to use the two styles of the diagona
pack.
How the Judges Worked
Three boxes out of each exhibit, Sc
lected because they seemed to posses
an average of excellence for the lot
were examined unless there wer,
more than three varieties in the lot
when one box of each variety wa
taken The nudge went into ever