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The striking i-xhiliit m Ihc North Pacific I'nijl 

 Spokane. This won first pri/p of .$100 for thr 



tioiis, etc.. lor ;ii 



.sold as 'bitter almonds' or .shipped to 

 Germany and tliere used for the iiianu- 

 facturc of prussic acid. The coniiiiittee 

 is unanimous in its conclusion that a 

 central by-pi'oducts organization is 

 necessary for the salvation of our fruit 

 and vesetahle industry. Therefore the 

 committee unanimously agreed to call 

 this convention today for the purjjose 

 of forminf,' a ceiitial l)\ -pioducts organ- 

 ization whose functions, the conunittee 

 recommends, shall be: First, to act in 

 an advisor> lainicity to all districts 

 conlemplalinM establishing plants and 

 to einplo\ experts whose services are to 

 be paid for by such districts. Second, 

 to arrange for a central selling agency 

 for the handling of by-products." 



It is doiii)llid if any other event ever 

 held in the Pacific N'orlhwest accom- 

 plished so much in the way of educ;d- 

 ing the i)eo|de about the varied uses of 

 the apple as did the women's depart- 

 ment of the Seventh National .\pi)le 

 Show. Thousands of people witnessed 

 Ihe cooking demonstrations and heard 

 the lectures given each morning, after- 

 noon and evening by the instructors 

 and students of Washington State Col- 

 lege and I'niversity of Idaho and by 

 experts employed by the Oregon-Wash- 

 ington HailroMd l<: Navigation Comi)any 

 and the Washington Water Power Com- 

 pany. The college demonstrations took 

 place in the women's auditorimu, which 

 had sealing facilities for (iOO persons, 

 and the Oregon-Washinglon Hailroad i<: 

 Navigation Company and Washington 

 Water Powei- Company had large booths 

 of theii- own, eciuipped with electric 

 ranges. i;ver\- demonslralion attracted 

 its crowd, and the men showed almost 

 as much interest as Ihe women in 

 watching the experts as they prepared 

 the apple in scores of dilferenl ways. 

 The women's de]3ailment, in which 

 nearly $1.0(10 in prizes weie disliibuled. 

 brou.ght Old approximately 2,(1110 eiiliics 

 if pies, dumplings. Jellies, jams and a 

 lumdred and one other apple prepara- 

 ions prepared b\ housewives, .\rranged 

 n racks and accompanied by Ihe recipes 

 "ollowed in Ihe making, lliese enli'ies 



llishi!ilil(Ms at the Scviiuli National Apple Show. 

 ■ mosl original feature enlercd by firms, corpora- 

 lv<-rtisins purposes. 



made a very imposing and Mtlraclive 

 spectacle. 



The busicsl persons at the show were 

 Ihe Judges who had Ihe task of selecting 

 Ihe winners in this division of Ihe show, 

 (iiven six days in which to determine 

 Ihe respective merits of 2,(100 dilferenl 

 apple pre])aralions, Ihey com))leled Iheii- 

 work at ."> o'clock on the afternoon of 

 the sixth day. Kach Judge iJiobabh 

 broke a world's record when she lasled 

 2,000 ditrercnt dishes in that lenglli of 

 lime. The women who did this were: 

 Miss Sue M. Lombard, ,Norlh Yakima; 

 Mrs. I). L. Prall, Wenalehee; Mrs. W. A. 

 Pitz, Walla Walla; Mrs. S. C. Scanlle- 

 bur\, Spokane; Mrs. W. (i. Hall, Si)o- 

 kane: Mrs. Elizabeth B. Lamb, Spokane. 



Pid it must not be supposed Ihal Ihe 

 apple in its native stale was not al Ihe 

 sliow. Some hundreds of thousands of 

 Ihe woidd's finest adorned the big 

 racks. After a casual glance at the 

 apple entries, Ihe judges — A. P. Bate- 

 ham of Portlanil, Charles L. Hamilton 

 of North Yakima and W. S. Thornl)er 

 of Lewiston — ventured the opinion that 



Ihey would complete their work in 

 Ihree or four days. When they got into 

 lb- woik, however, the\ found the 

 (lualily of the apples so uniformly high 

 and the conlests so close that they had 

 lo extend themselves to finish after six 

 days of exceedingly hard work. 



•Attendance considered. Ibis >ear's 

 apple show was the most succes.sful in 

 history. About 60,000 people paid their 

 way to Ihe spacious grounds wilhin Iwd 

 blocks of Ihe business heail of Spokane. 

 The show itself was well arranged and 

 set a new mark for beauty of arrange- 

 ment and excellence of feature exhibits. 

 The intlustrial department included a 

 number of "live" exhibits or demon- 

 slialions of orchard appliances, which 

 were opeialed on the gioiinds for Ihe 

 practical education of the growers. B.\ 

 way of enlerlainment the* show was 

 unusually allraelive. Hach afternoon 

 and evening Chian'arelli's Italian Band, 

 a high class organization, gave conceils, 

 and the Mendelssohn Male Chorus of 

 sixty voices sang ever> evening. Two 

 mornings were require<l for the com- 

 pletion of the world's championship 

 apple iiacking contest, which was won 

 by M. R. Emerson of Opporliinit.w with 

 C. L. Poynter of Otis (Jrchards second 

 and Ed. Remy, .Ir., of North Yakima 

 third. First, second and third prizes 

 in this contest were $50, $25 and s20, 

 respectively. 



Prizes and the Winners 



TWENTY-FIVF. BoX LoTS 



I'irst prize, .$100; second prize, .$.")». 



.lonalhan — I'irst, J. M. Maloney, Hunters, 

 Wash.; second, ,1. B. Teltz, Spokane. 



Rome lieauly — First, F. E. Williams, Oppor- 

 luiiily; second, G. S. I'eltz, Spokane. 



Wasener — l-irst, \V. J. Enright, Chester; 

 second, C. M. Loekwood, Opportunity. 



Winter Itanaiia — l^irst, Tredinnock l"ariiis. 

 Mica. 



Si'HCiAL AwARiis, 10-Ho.\ Class 



Northwestern Fruit Exchange Sjiecial — Sweep- 

 stakes on pack, Fred Benson, North Yakima. 

 Special prize of .$10 gold watch fob. 



Mitchell. Lewis & Staver Special — Sweep- 

 stakes in 10-box class, .1. B. Schon, Wenatehee. 

 Special prize of .$10 spray pump. 



Laml)-I>a\'is Luniher Comjiany Special — l-"or 

 best Ht boxes of Dclicions grown in Chelan or 

 Douglas Counties, Wellington Deitch. We- 

 natehee. Special prize of .tIIO apple boxes. 



Oelleral view ot 



it Ihe Seventh Naliollat Apple Show. Spokane. 1!UI 



