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during the night ; I did succeed in getting some thoughts together ; 

 but I have by this time forgotten more than half of them. Out in 

 the West they talk of their beautiful sunsets, just as if they could 

 see the sunsets out there better than we. Now, while it is perfectly 

 natural and right for us to see our own possessions in a rosy light, 

 yet I certainly wished I had my old goose quill pen with which I 

 used to write in days gone by, so that I could pen some fitting tribute 

 to this beautiful fruit display of Adams County. 



Some of the apples I see here are just as good as the Hood 

 River Valley apples, — the kind I often take home with me to show 

 •the folks the kind they raise out in the Hood River Valley and the 

 West; the kind for which I often pay 25 cents when I get three 

 apples. 



If I were away from here and anyone brought some of these 

 apples to me for apples from that section of the West, I should not 

 know the difference. I certainly congratulate you people on your 

 great success in growing fruit. I do not think I will extend my 

 report any farther than this. I thank you all very much for your 

 attention, and if the report is satisfactory, hope you will accept it. 



Chester J. Tyson. I move that the report of the Fruit Com- 

 mittee be accepted, and that a vote of thanks be extended these gen- 

 tlemen for their services. (Unanimously carried.) 



Chester J. Tyson. I did hope that the committee would go a 

 little further into the matter, and criticise the manner of display. 

 We have been trying to get up an exhibit from the County for our 

 State meeting. We have been successful in coming off with awards 

 so far. We understand that we are to come up against more severe 

 competition from time to time. The thing we want to know is, 

 whether the plan we have adopted is the best way to display our 

 fruit to advantage. If the committee could tell us anything about 

 this, we should be glad to hear it. 



Mr. Anderson. If you had a large hall, and could have this 

 fruit on lower platforms, and people pass around them, it would be 

 very interesting and instructive ; but as you have no larger hall, I 

 do not see how you could have done any better than you have. As 

 the community becomes more wealthy, as I have no doubt you soon 

 will, you can have a larger hall, and arrange your fruit in the way 

 suggested. 



Member. We shall be pleased to hear from other members of 

 the Committee, if they choose to make any remarks in this regard. 



Mr. Bassett. I will say, Mr. Chairman, in the matter of dis- 

 playing fruit, it depends quite a little whether you are appealing to 

 scientific judges or to the people who are passing by, and the general 

 effect on their minds. If you are appealing- to competent judges, it 

 is important that the fruit be perfectly sound. They care little 

 whether the fruit be arranged in stars or crescents ; they want to 

 known absolutely that the fruit is perfectly free from all imperfec- 

 tions. Your arrangement would be perfectly satisfactory. 



The one thing I do want to criticise, however, is the absence 

 of the stems of some of the fruits — a thing that may appear very 

 small to you ; but when you come to apply to the professional judge, 

 if you have lost the stem, he will give you a docking on that. The 

 stem is a part of the apple ; and though we do not eat the stem, it is 



