TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING. 



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England Fruit Show wants to know how Mr. Knapp grew 

 theni. And the fellow who failed to get that prize with his 

 harrel of Baldwins or Spies is certainly entitled to know how 

 Knapp grew them. 



For the second section of the show I would enlarge and 

 perfect the present plan of packed fruits. One greatly needed 

 addition to our present prizes is some recognition of the small 

 retail package ; the paste-board or corrugated box, that wnll 

 hold anywhere from a half dozen to twO' dozen apples. Mark 

 my word, this is a package that is coming to the front, and 

 our first show ought to help it along by liberal prizes. 



And thirdly, as I have already suggested, there ought to 

 be a well-developed and systematic plan of educating the pub- 

 lic in the art of cooking and eating fruit. There should be 

 a larger exhibit of fruit, cooked in every conceivable style. 

 Most people's list of cooked apples, for example, would end 

 with baked apples, apple pie and apple jelly. If they were 

 once introduced to apple tapioca, apple pan-dowdy, boiled 

 apples, apple porcupine, apple snow, Dutch apple cake, apple 

 salad, and a dozen others that might be mentioned we 

 wouldn't be able to supply the market for years to come. 



There ought also to be a "constant performance" in the 

 way of demonstrations of cooking fruit. 'Most people are 

 closely enough related to the Missourians so that tbey need 

 to be "shown," and once you ha7'e shown the average house- 

 keeper how to make Dutch apple cake or apple porcupine yon 

 have increased the market for fruit by a very appreciable 

 quantity. And lastly, in this campaign to increase consump- 

 tion, we ought to give away more sample apples. Doubtless 

 this would have tO' be handled with a great deal of judgment 

 as to who received them and when. Probably a parting gift 

 would be safest, but it ought to be done. 



Just a word now on the management of the show and I 

 am done with the first section of my subject. 



First: All judging ought to be done by score card and 

 these cards ought to be accessible to the exhibitors after the 



