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OREGON SHOW EXCELS ALL PREVIOUS DISPLAYS 



TVENTY thousand persons visited 

 the .Portland Apple Show Wednes- 

 day, Thursday, Friday and Satur- 

 day of last week in the Majestic Theater 

 building, at Fifth and Washington. The 

 exhibit was held under the auspices of 

 the Oregon State Horticultural Society 

 and far exceeded any display of a similar 

 character in the number of exhibits and 

 in point of attendance ever held in the 

 state. 



Hood River exhibitors won nearly 

 every prize of importance. It took the 

 sweepstakes prize, the leading trophy in 

 the show, carrying a $350 purse The 

 Dalles won second prize, with $175, and 

 the Hillsboro Board of Trade was third, 

 gaining a $75 bounty. When the judge, 

 H. E. Van Damen, of Washington, D. C, 

 passed upon the smaller contests, such 

 as the 35-box competition and the five 

 boxes of Spitzenbergs and New.towns, 

 Hood River also won, and in the three- 

 box awards Hood River was equally suc- 

 cessful. 



The displays occupied two floors of the 

 building, each being decorated with the 

 green of the apple leaf and the red of the 

 Spitzenberg. The racks crossed each 

 floor and almost to the ceiling boxes of 

 apples were piled, arranged to harmonize 

 colors of the fruit. Hood River had the 

 largest exhibit, while Hosier, The Dalles 

 and Dufur were not lagging far behind. 

 Washington County had a pretty exhibit, 

 consisting of ^ shield in colors, with the 

 picture of George Washington in the cen- 

 ter. Stars, shields, bars and all of the 

 emblems of the National flag were 

 worked into a large and complete design. 



Coos Bay, Yamhill, Salem, Albany, 

 Benton County, Eugene, Lakeview and a 

 dozen other counties and towns were 

 represented on the tables, in the racks or 

 in plates. 



One of the most interesting features of 

 the show was the apple pie contest, for 

 which there were several hundred en- 

 tries. One pie, cooked in a zinc tub, en- 

 tered by H. H. Haynes, of Portland, 

 was one of the drawing cards of the 

 show. 



Homer C. Atwell, of Forest Grove, 

 president, and Frank W. Power of Port- 

 land, secretary-treasurer of the Horticul- 

 tural Society, were re-elected and re- 

 ceived many compliments for the man- 

 ner in which they conducted the show. 



Hood River won everything in sight 

 at the Portland Apple Show in the 

 awarding of the prizes Thursday. It 

 was first in the sweepstakes prize, first 

 in the 25-box contest, first in the five- 

 box prize, first in Spitzenbergs and 

 first in Yellow Newtowns. Ir fact, the 

 only prize worth mentioning that it did 

 not pin to its banner was the three- 

 box Spitzenberg, which was won by 

 the Salem Fruit Union. In point of 

 markings the Hood River apples stood 

 first on account of symmetry, proper 

 size and quality, and the color was all 

 that the presiding judge desired. 



"The Hood River apple-growers," 

 said H. E. Van Deman, the judge, "have 



FROM THE WEEKLY OREGONIAN 



been in so many apple shows that they 

 have the art down almost to perfec- 

 tion. They seem to know just how to 

 pack, how to polish and how to sort 

 for form." 



Second place in the sweepstakes prize 

 was won by The Dalles, while the Hills- 

 boro Board of Trade was in third place. 

 The $250 Louis W. Hill prize for apples 



grown in a section tributary to the Great 

 Northern was won by The Dalles. In 

 the contest for the Howard Elliott prize 

 of the Northern Pacific, the Hillsboro 

 Board of Trade received the $250 

 donated by the railway. 



When Professor Van Deman, in his 

 round of judging, reached the Mosier ex- 

 hibit and found 30 boxes of three-tier 



DUFUR VALLEY, OREGOX, DISTRICT DISPL.AY .\T THE DUFUR APPLE SHOW. AT THE 

 OREGON APPLE SHOW, PORTLAND, 1910, A MUCH HANDSOMER DISPLAY W AS MADE, OF 

 WHICH NO VIEW WAS OBTAINED 



UPPER HOOD RIVER VALLEY, OREGON, DISTRICT DISPLAY AT HOOD RIVER APPLE 

 SHOW AND OREGON APPLE SHOW. PORTLAND, OREGON, 1910 



Eiigro'c'ed by Hicks-Chatten Co., Portland, Oregon 



Engraved by Hicks-Chatten Co., Portland, Oregon 



