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the barrels. The chief considerations in awarding the prizes 

 were the quality of the fruit, packing and general arrangement. 

 The much coveted interstate prize of $100 and a gold medal 

 was captured by New Hampshire. 



Massachusetts won the second prize in the interstate com- 

 petition, $50 and a silver medal. 



Connecticut was third in the interstate competition, win- 

 ning the prize of $25 and a bronze medal. As we have inti- 

 mated, the Connecticut exhibit was considerably handicapped 

 because of the great number of varieties represented, twenty- 

 two in all, consisting of Greening, Baldwin, Gilliflower, Rox- 

 bury Russet, Sutton, Fall Pippin, Winesap, Cooper's Market, 

 Pewaukee, Mcintosh, Spy, Hubbardston, Ben Davis, Hurl- 

 but, Spitzenberg, Stark, Tolman Sweet, Pound Sweet, Baker, 

 Gravenstein, Grimes' Golden and King. Fifteen growers were 

 represented in the exhibit ; hence there was more or less diffi- 

 culty in making the various packs uniform. The uniform 

 blood-red color of the red varieties in the New Hampshire 

 and Massachusetts exhibits was not quite so pronounced in 

 the Connecticut exhibit, although they were apples of very 

 high quality. The Greenings in the Connecticut exhibit were 

 surpassed only by those in the Rhode Island exhibit. 



Connecticut beat out the states of Maine and Rhode Isl- 

 and, which was greatly to our credit, and to have taken third 

 place in this year's show was a far greater honor than to have 

 won first place two years ago, so great has been the progress 

 in apple culture the past two years. In fact, the show two 

 years ago was a countrv fair in comparison with the show this 

 year, so different was the quality, color, size, uniformity, con- 

 formation, packing, etc. Even if Connecticut did fail to win 

 first place with her state exhibit, her individual growers, whose 

 splendid fruit was in evidence in every department of the 

 show, won their full share of prizes, as the long list of awards 

 at the end of this article will show. It was demonstrated be- 

 yond question that in the production of the highest grade of 

 fruits that can be produced. Connecticut need take no second 



