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SPOKANE NATIONAL APPLE SHOWS— In 

 acting as executive officer for the National 

 Apple Show I am more deeply impressed with 

 the spirit of the exhibitors than by anything else. 

 As soon as the plans for the annual show are made 

 known we begin to receive letters of encourage- 

 ment from exhibitors of former years, and, as the 

 campaign goes " forward, we have continued sup- 

 port and co-operation. Many of these exhibitors 

 have not won prizes, and to all of them the making 

 of a display means a money outlay and the giving 

 of time and labor. Yet they get behind the show 

 in a spirit which makes the exhibition a guaran- 

 teed success from the start. When the decisions 

 are announced the losers take their defeat with 

 good grace, and the greatest satisfaction I have 

 enjoyed as manager comes to me when these 

 exhibitors, losers and winners alike, declare their 

 intention of entering the race another year with 

 a determination to do better. 



Were it not for the financial support given the 

 show by Spokane business men, the railway com- 

 panies and a few other friends, the affair would 

 be an impossibility, and our trustees fully realize 

 the debt. At the same time we owe fully as 

 much to the newspapers, trade journals and peri- 

 odicals that give the affair such great publicity, 

 and which encourage every move we make. Intel- 

 ligent publicity is indispensable to an exhibition. 



Plans for the Fourth National Apple Show are 

 only being discussed in a tentative way as yet. 

 The trustees wish to show the sentiment of the 

 exhibitors before submitting any proposition to the 

 Spokane Chamber of Commerce. We hope to 



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make each show an improvement over the last, 

 and to this end we ask suggestions and crtiticisms 

 while the tentative plans are the subject of dis- 

 cussion. 



The taking of the exhibits to the East was such 

 a great success this year from an advertising 

 standpoint that it will probably be repeated. It 

 is, however, a most difficult matter to decide what 

 city will be best for the purpose. It should not 

 only be a good "show" city, but so located that 

 the exhibitors will attract the investing public and 

 center interest in the resources of the Pacific 

 Northwest. — Ren H. Rice, Manager of Spokane 

 National Apple Show. 



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Editor Better Fruit: 



The orchard heating number (October, 1910) 

 of "Better Fruit" reached me today. I note with 

 interest that you have honored me by making use 

 of my article on "The Relation of the Weather 

 Bureau to Horticulture," and also that the num- 

 ber contains many articles that will be of assist- 

 ance to the growers in protecting their crops from 

 frost. I shall have the pleasure of speaking to 

 several gatherings of fruit men in the near future 

 and I shall be glad to call their attention to this 

 number of your magazine. 



If consistent with your policy, I would very 

 much appreciate half a dozen extra copies of this 

 ' number. Thanking you for your kindness in the 

 matter, I am, very respectfully, Edward L. Wells, 

 Boise, Idaho. 



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One Animal and Three Hogs 

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Editor Better hruit: 



Your October number of "Better Fruit" treating 

 on orchard heating is certainly a most excellent 

 one. In fact, it is so good that I should like very 

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