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Northwest Fruit Exposition 



THOSE who sponsored the Pacific 

 Northwest Fruit Exposition, held in 

 Seattle, November 21-30, were well pleased 

 with successful results of the show. At- 

 tendance and interest proved so good that 

 the exposition was continued three days 

 longer than originally planned, up to and 

 including November 30. 



The Grandview district of Washing- 

 ton captured the coveted grand sweep- 

 stakes prize of $1,000 cash and gold ban- 

 ner, for the best district display. Out 

 of a possible 1,000 points this district 

 scored 857. 



Second in the sweepstakes competition 

 was the Cashmere district, which scored 

 785 points and received $500 in cash and 

 a silver banner. Other district exhibits 

 were scored as follows: Third, Lake Che- 

 lan, 761; fourth, Yakima, 751; fifth, 

 Benton, 750; sixth, Walla Walla, 738; 

 seventh, Methow, 723; eighth, Okanogan, 

 716; ninth, Clarke, 64+; tenth, Wen- 

 atchee, 637. 



The 1,000-point basis of scoring was 

 made of 600 points for fruit, 200 for artis- 

 tic merits, and 200 for commercial attrac- 

 tiveness and "selling power." The list of 

 judges included talent from Washington^ 

 California and Oregon. 



Grandview's exhibit was one showing 



great banks of apples surrounding a map of 

 the district. The serving of apple pie to 

 each visitor admittedly added a number of 

 points to the district's score, under the 

 "selling power" of the booth. 



The American Fruit Growers of Wen- 

 atchee carried away the grand prize of 

 $5 00 in merchandise for best individual 

 display by a fruit grower. Peter Erick- 

 son of Vashon was second and H. W. Rob- 

 erts of White Swan, in the Yakima dis- 

 trict, was third. 



Attractive daily programs of lectures, 

 demonstrations and music were presented 

 in connection with the exposition and there 

 were two or three important banquets. 

 Thirty "Prunarians" from Clarke county 

 attracted attention when they attended in 

 natty uniforms and distributed samples of 

 Clarke county prunes to everyone. 



Neither attendance nor number of ex- 

 hibits from Oregon were up to expecta- 

 tions, but this was partially the result of 

 storm conditions which prevailed during 

 much of the time the exposition was in 

 progress. 



'T'HE price of Pacific Coast cranberries was ad- 

 vanced 50 cents a box the first week in No- 

 vember, to $5.50 per box, for the berries remaining 

 in hands of the growers' exchange. 



December, 1921 

 Nailing: Apple Boxes 



GOVERNMENT investigators have 

 found that the right use of a few 

 more nails in the apple box would prevent 

 losses to the shipper running into thou- 

 sands of dollars annually. Tests with stand- 

 ard packed boxes, ready for shipment, 

 were conducted by means of revolving 

 drums in which they were placed. Before 

 they had gone a "journey" of average 

 length in the machine most of the boxes 

 had broken open and the drum was drip- 

 ping cider. 



On investigation it was found that 

 usually the parts of the box to loosen and 

 give way first were where the four nails 

 were holding an edge. Two more nails 

 were therefore driven into each nailing 

 edge of the remaining boxes. With this 

 simple change the boxes stood just about 

 twice as much rough handling. 



The Idaho State Seed show will be held 

 at Idaho Falls January 10-13. Premiums 

 amounting to approximately $1500 will be 

 distributed to competitors from the United 

 States and Canada. Last year 3+ Idaho 

 counties were represented and it is be- 

 lieved the number will be greater this year. 



You will want to send copies of the 

 Homeseekers' number of Better Fruit to 

 some of your friends. Order them now 

 while you have it in mind. 



bo"o banker" M. McDonald, presideni Oregon Nursery Compary.-(By courtesy Morning Oregon.an). 



