Tin THE FRUIT INDUSTRY IN NEW YORK STATE 



NEW YORK FRUIT AT THE LAND SHOWS AND AT THE SAN 

 FRANCISCO EXPOSITION 



CHARLES G. PORTER, ALBION, X. Y., 



In Charge of New York Horticultural Exhibits at Land Shows and at San 

 Francisco Exposition 



NEW YORK LAND SHOWS 



At the Land Show in Madison Square 

 Garden, in November, 1911, an exhibit of 

 fruit from the state of New York was in- 

 stalled. It consisted of packed boxes of 

 apples, as also full packed barrels and sec- 

 tions of packed barrels. The exhibits also 

 contained pears, peaches, canned fruit and 

 various fruit productions. 



Erom November 11 to December 4, 

 1912, the second state exhibit of fruit was 

 shown at a New York Land Show. At 

 this exhibition, apples and pears were 



shown. Since, after the show was decided upon, there was less than 

 two weeks' time in which to collect and install the fruit, it was 

 colle cted from orchards and barns where the fruit had been packed 

 for market and was therefore not selected for exhibition purposes. 

 This was an excellent feature of this exhibit : for, notwithstanding 

 all that has been said about the farmer's poor pack, one was able to 

 go to various farms and select boxes and barrels of apples that had 

 been packed in the regular way and which went to make up a 

 large and attractive exhibit of New York State fruit. As this 

 was an exhibit of two hundred packed barrels, massed in a bunch 

 on such an angle as to show the entire face end of each barrel, 

 and one hundred and seventy-five full packed boxes installed upon 

 a rack five boxes high and so arranged as to make a background 

 for the barrels, it made a very attractive exhibit. 



There were hundreds of children and many grown people - 

 consumers of fruit who looked for the first time upon a full 

 barrel of apples, and who for the first time learned that apples 

 grown in the state of New York were marketed in barrels and 

 not in half -pecks. From this exhibit, apples and pears were 



