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What fruit to show. Only the very best fruit should be taken 

 to a fair or placed on exhibition. No insect-infested or diseased 

 specimens should be considered. Apples should be true to type as 

 to shape, size, color markings, calyx, stem, bloom, and so on, all 

 the specimens resembling each other closely in these characteristics. 

 A plate of five apples that are alike in every particular will be 

 most satisfactory. 



How to show fruit. If the apples are to be placed in plates of five 

 specimens each, see that the plates are clean. A dark-green paper 

 mat in the plate will set off yellow or red varieties, while a fairly 

 deep-red paper mat will tend to improve the looks of green fruit. 

 If these mats are not allowed, then see that the plate is a good, 

 new, white one. Place the apples stems up, four on the plate and 

 one on top of the four. 



If barrel or box packing is shown, be careful to have each apple 

 in its proper place and the barrel or box new and fresh looking. 

 A white paper-lace collar or strip will add much to the attractive- 

 ness of the packed fruit. 



Apple prize list of the New York State Fair. A list of the 

 various apples and prizes given in one of the large Eastern fairs 

 will serve to illustrate the interest shown in apples as a whole and 

 certain varieties in particular. 



COLLECTION EXHIBITS 



For the largest and best collection of fruits grown in any county in the 

 state of New York, collected and exhibited by any county organization : #250.00, 

 #200.00, #1 50.00. 



For the largest and best collection of fruits grown in the state of New 

 York, collected and exhibited by any subordinate grange in the state : $1 50.00, 

 $100.00, #75.00. 



COMMERCIAL EXHIBITS 



Apples 



Best display of three packed barrels, not 



less than three varieties $75.00 $50.00 $25.00 



Best-packed barrel of Baldwins . . . 25.00 15.00 10.00 



Best-packed barrel of Greenings . . . 25.00 15.00 10.00 

 Best-packed barrel of Kings or Twenty 



Ounce 25.00 15.00 10.00 



