THIRTY-THIRD BIENNIAL SESSION 
247 
special collection of apples consisting of seventeen varieties, three plates 
of five specimens each, to be selected from the following list: Arkansas, 
Baldwin, Ben Davis, Delicious, Esopus, Gano, Gravenstein, Grimes, Hub- 
bardston, Huntsman, Jonathan, McIntosh, Missouri, Northern Spy, Rhode 
Island Greening, Rome Beauty, Stayman Winesap, Tolman, Tompkins King, 
Wagener, Wealthy, White Pearmain, Winesap, Yellow Bellflower, Yellow 
Newtown, York Imperial. 
4. Upon application to the Secretary, previous to the opening of the 
contest, each contestant shall be registered with a number (but members 
of a team shall not have consecutive numbers) and supplied with a pad of 
score cards sufficient for the contest, and upon wihch all reports of the 
contestant shall be made to the jury. 
5 (a). The factors in the contest with their values shall be as follows: 
Identification, 100; scoring, 100; placing, 100. Total possible individual 
score with three identified plates of perfect fruit properly placed, and with 
correct reasons assigned for placing, 300. 
(b) . The factors of the score card shall be as follows: Condition, 40; 
color, 30; size, 20; form, 10. The factors of placing shall be as follows: 
50 for actual placing, if correct; 50 for correct reasons for placing. 
Details of Score: Condition. This score implies that the specimens 
of an entry shall be fully mature, sound, firm, clean and free from insect, 
fungous, and physical injuries and structural or physiological break-down. 
Color. This score reimplies that all specimens of an entry shall be of 
uniform and characteristic coloring for the variety. 
Size. This score implies that the specimens of an entry shall be of the 
most acceptable commercial size for the variety, and that all specimens 
shall be uniform in this respect. 
Form. This score implies that all specimens of an entry shall be of a 
uniform and characteristic form for the variety, region of growth being 
considered. 
Reasoning. This score implies that the contestant shall express his 
reasons for decisions rendered covering a particular plate, or plates, in 
clear, concise and positive terms. 
(c) . Placing percentages shall be determined upon the following basis: 
Correct placing in the order of, 1, 2, 3, as determined by the jury. 
Then: 
1__2— -3 ........ 50 points 3— -1—2 29 11/12 points 
1 — 3 — 2 37 points 3 — 2 — 1 20 10 /12 points 
2—1—3 29 2/12 points 2—3—1 18 9/12 points 
