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BETTER FRUIT 



January 



Engrai'cd by The American Engrnz'ing Company, Spokane 

 METHOW VALLEY, WASHNGTON, DISTRICT DISPLAY, THIRD NATIONAL APPLE SHOW 

 SPOKANE, WASHINGTON, AND CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 1910 



Flioto b\ Frank I'almcr, Spokane Engraving /ly Auicncan Engraving Company, Spokane 



FIRST PRIZE CARLOAD OF ROME BEAUTIES FROM LAKE CHELAN, WASHINGTON, 

 GROWN BY R. P. WRIGHT. NATIONAL APPLE SHOW, SPOKANE, WASHINGTON, AND 



CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 1910 



Photo by Frank Palmer, Spokane Engraving by American Engraving Company, Spokane 



PROSSER, WASHINGTON, DISTRICT DISPLAY AT THE THIRD NATIONAL APPLE SHOW 

 SPOKANE, WASHINGTON, AND CHICAGO, TLLIXOIS, 191 n 

 The Washington State Honicultural Society meets at Prosser this mohtli. 



captured the first honors, $200, a gold 

 medal banner and the J. C. Pearson 

 company, silver cup. R. H. Fortune, of 

 Salmon Arm, B. C, was second. 



John Hakel, of Hood River, Ore., won 

 a prize of $50 for the best exhibit in the 

 Western states special. The Palouse 

 Irrigation and Power Company, of 

 Hooper, Wash., was second. R. H. 

 Fortune, of Salmon Arm, B. C, won the 

 first prize, $75, in the foreign country 

 special. 



The Commercial Club, of Walla Walla, 

 Wash., won the first prize for the best 

 general collective display of apples grown 

 on irrigated land. The Commercial Club, 

 of Cashmere, Wash., was second. The 

 Business Men's Association, of Lyle, 

 Wash., was first in the non-irrigated dis- 

 play contest, Spokane county being sec- 

 ond. 



The prize for the exhibit coming the 

 longest distance was awarded to William 

 S. Teator, Upper Red Hook, N. Y., 

 3,019 miles. 



Tedford Brothers, of Wenatchee, 

 Wash., received the H. Woods Compan>- 

 trophy for winning the most prizes of all 

 kinds. 



The apple packing contest brought out 

 45 entrants. Charles Mason, of Spokane, 

 was declared the champion, scoring 378 

 of a possible 400 points. W. L. Dres- 

 bach, of Mosier, Ore., was .second with 

 370 points, C. L. Green, of Wenatchee, 

 Wash., being third with 362 points. 



Engraved by Hicks-Chatten Co., Portland, Oregon 



C. H. SPROAT 



Winner of the sweepstakes prize for best carload 

 of apples at the National Apple Show, Spokane, 

 $1,000, and winner on the same car for the best 

 carload of Spitzenbergs, $250, and winner at the 

 Spokane National Apple Show of the solid silver 

 trophy cup given by the Association of Commerce 

 Chicago, valued at $500. Mr. Sproat has been for 

 many years secretary of the Hood River Apple 

 Growers' Union and this year was elected to the 

 position of manager. Mr. Sproat has been for 

 years a successful apple grower in Hood River 

 \'alley, owning fifty acres, one of the finest apple 

 orchards in the valley. 



