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The following list exhibits the winning plates with their respective 
scores on a basis of 500 points (100 for each apple) according to the following 
score card: Condition, 40; color, 30; size, 20; form, 10. Baldwin, 453; 
Massachusetts Agricultural College: Ben Davis, 462; F. P. Vergon, Ohio: 
Delicious, 452; West Virginia Horticultural Society: Grimes, 455; Noah P. 
Walbom, Pennsylvania: Jonathan, 433; West Virginia Horticultural Society: 
McIntosh, 446; Western Michigan Development Bureau: Northern Spy, 448; 
Silas Wilson, Idaho: Paragon, 444; Ohio Exprt. Station: Rome Beauty, 480; 
West Virginia Horticultural Society: Rhode Island Greening, 474; Massa- 
chusetts Agricultural College: Stayman Winesap, 479; E. Oppenlander, 
Pennsylvania: Wagener, 445; Ira Cherrington, Pennsylvania: Wealthy, 427; 
Massachusetts Agricultural College: Winesap, 467; West Virginia Horti- 
cultural Society: White Pearmain, 479; W. W. Scott, Washington: Yellow 
Newtown, 472; Montana State Board of Horticulture; York Imperial, 456, 
West Virginia Horticultural Society. 
While the contest was primarily for the purpose of assisting in the 
work of determining the basis upon which to establish a series of uniform 
national score cards for fruit judging contests, there were several other 
objects kept in view. One of these was to ascertain just how carefully 
grown and selected apples of the same variety from different sections would 
compare in a common scoring contest, under common rules. 
Unfortunately, some of the data covering the exact source of certain 
plates were lost and thus comparisons are impossible though the scores 
and source of winning plates are intact. These may serve as a basis of 
comparison for the next contest and thereby aid in a small way in helping 
to establish comparative values, and especially so, should it be possible to 
maintain a regular and permanent series of contests of this Character. 
In accordance with the action of the executive committee, by direction 
of the society, these highest scoring plates were voted special honors, the 
exact character of which is yet to be determined. 
The cordial and appreciative thanks of the society were tendered the 
following persons for their contributions for the purchase of awards, made 
to the winning contestants in the fruit judging contest: 
L. A. Goodman, twenty dollars, the President’s purse. 
Geo. C. Roeding and W. C. Barry, each ten dollars, for the trophy; 
L. R. Taft, W. S. Hart, L. C. Berckmans, J. G. Harrison & Sons and C. L. 
Watrous each contributed five dollars for the same purpose. 
Vice-President Taber contributed five dollars, and the following state 
vice-presidents one dollar each, toward the first and second vice-presidents’ 
purses : 
E. D. Ball, Joe A. Burton, C. P. Close, M. L. Dean, C. H. Dutcher, J. 
Edgar Higgins, H. H. Hume, H. C. Irish, C. A. Keffer, C. F. Kinman, Angus 
Mackay, Geo. A. Marshall, C. W. Mathews, Mrs. S. W. Moore, Norman S. 
Platt, Geo. C. Roeding, J. Van Lindley, 0. B. Waldron, J. B. Wiggins, Silas 
Wilson, R. M. Winslow. 
