The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-08-21
APPLE DISTRICTS
| TO HAVE DISPLAY
Special Prizes at Land Products
Show for Commercial Dis
plays Of the Northwest


along educational lines, the manage
ment of the Pacific Northwest Land
Products Show, to be held in this city
November IS to 23 inclusive, has de-
cided that one of the many features
of the exhibition will be competitive
displays of apples, by district organi-
cations. This class of exhibits will
consist of commercial varieties of APP
pies grown in districts making the
display and may consist of every va
riety grown in each locality, but in
cluded in the general display there
must be one Standard size box of each
of the leading five commercial varie-
ties of the district. Each district con-
testant must furnish the judge with a
list of the varieties shown and a
statement giving detailed reasons why
the five varieties selected are the most
desirable varieties commercially, for
the district.
The object of this is that full
and complete record of what is best
adapted to each district may be re-
served and used for the information
of those who desire to plant orchards,
and whose interests will be best serv-
lutely dependable information as to
what varieties they should plant to
secure the best results. Many mis-
takes have been and are being made,
by new settlers in planting varieties
not adapted to attitudes, soil and eli
matte conditions. and the result is
fruit of an inferior quality or color,
and of little commercial value.
Competitive Entries
The educational idea will be carried
out in all other district displays, for
there will be classes for competitive
entries covering districts whose pro-
duct is mostly grains, fodder crops
and vegetables as well as some fruit;
these necessarily must be- in a class
by themselves, but will be given
prizes of equal value.
In both classes, handsome artistic
effects may be secured by the use of
any decorative material, but in no
case should the decorations make the
products displayed subordinate, but
on the contrary be of a character that
will enhance the natural beauty of
the product displayed.
At many of the land shows in the
East, magnificent artistic effects have
been secured solely by the use of
grains, grasses and foliage, and in
many instances displays from districts
Where only grain is raised have in
their arrangement and decorative de-
point of view. ATtNt
Nearly 200 responses have been re-
ceived to a letter sent out about two
weeks ago by the secretary, giving
preliminary Information regarding the
show Such answers indicating that
this plan is the most satisfactory one
yet developed for advancing the inter-
ests Of the districts and of the new
settlers, and commercial organizations
in territories that have never before
exhibited, have announced that they
will have representative displays at
the show.
Spraying Apparatus
As orchards mature, the necessity
of proper spraying apparatus be-
comes apparent, and the prospective
purchaser often through his lack of
knowledge is compelled to depend on
the Judgment of his neighbor; again
the educational value of the coming
show is shown. A plan is being
worked out in every detail, whereby
a test will be made of all spraying
machinery entering.
The educational plan, as applied to
the visitors and residents of this city,
will consist in showing them that
every one of the four Pacific North
west states should be self-sustaining
as to food products consumed, while
statistics show that hundreds of thou
sands of dollars worth of food pro-
ducts are shipped yearly into the four
states when each of them should be
supplying their own needs and ship
ping out a surplus.
The showing to the newcomer of
what is best adapted to every local
ity will lead to the settlement of fer
tile districts that are still untouched
by the pillow and totally undeveloped.
With the settlement of these districts
and the growing of the varied crops,
additional trade will flow to centers,
and the city of Portland, being nat
ural point in a district of many hun
dreds of square miles, must necessa-
rily grow and be benefited by the de-
velopment of the fertile spot of which
it is the center.