The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1912-10-31
SHOW ATTRACTS
LOCAL GROWERS
WHO WILL JOURNEY TO SPOKANE
OrchardiSts and Market Men viii Join
Conference and Deliver Addresses
Problems to Be Discussed.

Prof, II. c Sampson, vice president
of the National Apple show of Spo-
kane and a well known northwestern
hortleuiturist, has been here this week
to create an interest in the growers
meeting, which is to be held at Spo-
kane during the apple show. eve ex-
pect this meeting to be one of the
biggest features of the National Apple
show, says Prof. Sampson. I'VE are
securing speakers of note from all
over the northwest, men who have
practical knowledge Of the things they
Will talk about and who will be able to
tell the other fellow. There is no topic
that is of vital Importance to the apple
grower but that will be touched upon
at the gathering. We expect to make
progress in marketing. All the prob
lens of the distribution of fruit will
be brought out and headway made in
the solving of them.
Hood River will be represented at the
meeting by growers, marketers and
business men. Truman Butler will be
present to deliver an address on the
problems of financing the marketing of
fruit. NJ. Nj. Hill will read paper on
storage, A. |. Mason, pruning and K.
ii. Shepherd, editor of Better Fruit,
and Wilmer Sieg, manager of the
Union, will deliver addresses on the
marketing of apples.
The northwestern railway executive
officers will attend the meeting and a
closer working relationship will be
brought about between the growers
and the transportation men.
we already have "a carloads of
fruit signed up for exhibit. We are
really going to have too many apples,
and | am curtailing some of these ex-
hibitj. while on this trip" says Prof.
Sampson.
In addition to the above named Hood
River speakers, Ii. f. Davidson and
Prof. W. II. Lawrence have also been
invited to deliver addresses, the former
on storage and the latter on the COOP
erative control of orchard pests.
The railroad officials who will deliver
addresses are Pres. Howard Elliott, of
the Northern Pacific; Pres. Carl Gray,
OF the Great Northern; and X. B. Mil
Ter and r. E. Strahorn, of the O.-W.
r. & N. Co.
The show will be held Nov. ll-17.
The educational or the service side will
consist of daily conferences from 1912.
a. M, and from "a p. IN. Three days
VIII be devoted to cultivation. pruning,
spraying, harvesting, financing, etc.
wednesday will be devoted to by-pro-
duets; Thursday to storage and trans
! portation; Friday to marketing. The
best men of the Northwest will be used
for one-hnlf of the conference time.
and the other half will be open to gem
eral d srnssio Stenographic reports
of the entire conferences will be taken,
printed. ard distributed, if possible,
free of charge.
free school to teach packing boys and
girls judging contest. preceded by in
struction on how to Judge; the testing
of power spraying machines by experts
to gather complete information in re-
gard to design, construction, perform
ance, and efficiency of modern spraying
machinery; EXHIBIT of spraying ma
chimes: the exhibit Of the State Col
lege of Washington, illustrating by
colored transparencies orchard scenes
throughout the northwest, and supple
mented by lectures and many other
valuable features; personal confer
ences with experts, giving opportunity
to individual growers to get help on
their own personal problems through
consultation with one or more of the
northwest apple experts who will be
present and available for conference
work during the week cooking demon
strations conducted by the girls of the
Lewis & Clark high school (Spokane),
under the direction of their teachers
and the exhibition of apple industry
appliances that the growers may see
the most modern deve opments or de-
vices designed to aid them in their
work. :
Undoubtedly, too, the apple show
will be of much value in extending the
knowledge concerning the apple indus
try as to the acreage. the quality.
the quantity of yield, the varieties for
which each valley is noted. All this is
of great value to our own home people
that they may discuss the apple indus
try more intelligently with the people
with whom they come in contact.
The personal value to an exhibitor
of gathering together and handling an
exhibit, and meeting with thousands of
people who stop with him for a word
or two, of meeting other exhibitors,
comparing notes with them is very
great particularly if the exhibitor be
a young man.