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al)le, when we exercise the same care, to successfiillv meet 

 the competition of the West. 



Discussion. 



President Rogers : This has been an exceecHngly in- 

 teresting- address. Perhaps some of you would hke to question 

 JNIr. Drew, and if so you now have an opportunity. I would 

 like to hear a word from Mr. Drew about the apple shows in 

 the West. I think there were three different fairs that he 

 attended. 



Mr. Drew : It was my good pleasure with Prof. 

 Sears, to be at the apple show at \'ancouver four or five days, 

 and also at Spokane, Washington, where the third apple show 

 was held. When I first went into the hall where the exhibit 

 was there at Vancouver, I was taken aback to see such a won- 

 derful display, and at first I threw up my hands and I said: 

 "It is all up with us, I don't believe we can ever get up such 

 a show as'that." And the apples as they were displayed, cer- 

 tainly looked wonderful. There was a carload of Jonathans 

 which was displayed there which finally took first prize, a 

 carload of 600 boxes. It was certainly a wonderful display, 

 it didn't seem as if we could ever grow fruit like it. But when 

 I came to look around, I observed the fruit and found out 

 how it was grown, picked and selected, and how it was packed 

 with such care, and everything like that, I wasn't so much 

 surprised. For instance, that carload of 600 boxes I was told 

 by a gentleman who was there, in fact, by the man who 

 packed them, that they picked over 10,000 boxes of their com- 

 mercial Jonathans to get those 600 boxes for a prize. If we 

 would only do that, I think we could exhibit good apples our- 

 selves. 



Again, there were some very fine prize fruit there in the 

 five and ten box classes, and in all those cases they were cer- 

 tainly wonderful. They picked over a great many boxes to 

 get those. Those were not commercial boxes, they were put 

 on for exhibition, and they could aft'ord to do it because of 

 the prizes, which were so very liberal. In fact, the govern- 

 ment in Canada this vear gave them a wonderfully large ap- 



