American Agriculturist, April 21,1923 
Eastern Apple Growers Meet 
to Consider Further Plans 
For Exposition 
HERSCHEL H. JONES 
T he Eastern Apple Exposition and 
Fruit Show plans are progressing 
very encouragingly, as evidenced by the 
large and enthusiastic attendance at 
the meeting held in New York City 
April 10 of the General Committee of 
fruit grov/ers, agricultural department 
officials and others who are promoting 
this project. There were about 40 rep¬ 
resentatives present at the conference 
from Massachusetts, New York, Ver¬ 
mont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Penn¬ 
sylvania, Maryland and New Jersey. 
Some of the States have not yet suc¬ 
ceeded in getting appropriations to en¬ 
able them to complete final arrange¬ 
ments for exhibiting their fruit at the 
exposition, but enough of the Eastern 
States are ready to go into the cam¬ 
paign to advertise Eastern fruit to 
make its success assured. 
The plan for an Eastern Apple Ex¬ 
position to be held in the Grand Cen¬ 
tral Palace from November 3 to No¬ 
vember 10 next fall was developed sev¬ 
eral months ago at a meeting called in 
New York City of large Eastern fruit 
growers and representatives of agricul¬ 
tural departments, colleges of agricul¬ 
ture and other institutions concerned 
with fruit industry in the eastern 
United States. 
The Apple Exposition is intended to 
be the center of an extensive advertis¬ 
ing and publicity campaign for the pur¬ 
pose of bringing before the public the 
superior quality and flavor of Eastern 
fruit. Incidently, those who are sup¬ 
porting the proposed campaign expect 
that one of the principal results which 
will be accomplished will be the educa¬ 
tion of the farmers themselves in the 
East to a better appreciation of what 
the buying public wants, and to better 
packing and grading of their fruit. In 
competition with the perfectly stand¬ 
ardized and efficiently marketed apples 
from other parts of the country, the 
Eastern fruit has been crowded to a 
considerable extent out of its own best 
markets. 
While it will not be the purpose 
of the proposed show to discredit in 
any way the fruit from other parts 
of the country, it is intended to famil¬ 
iarize the consuming public with East¬ 
ern fruit and fruit products, and to 
encourage the Eastern fruit growers 
to advertise their products more exten¬ 
sively and improve their methods of 
marketing. 
The State Horticultural Society in 
Massachusetts has undertaken to raise 
the funds itself for putting on a large 
exhibit of fruit from that State. Some 
of the large commercial interests have 
agreed to put up a dollar for every 
dollar the growers themselves raise for 
this purpose. Vermont has already se¬ 
cured an appropriation from the Legis¬ 
lature to enable it to make a strong 
showing at the exposition. The New 
York State legislative appropriation is 
still pending in the Legislature, but the 
cooperative organizations and individ¬ 
ual growers throughout the State have 
shown great enthusiasm for the cam¬ 
paign. 
The cooperation of the public schools. 
Women’s clubs, consumers’ organiza¬ 
tions, trade bodies, civic associations 
^d all sorts of organizations in New 
York City is being secured for this ex¬ 
position. It is planned for each State 
to have a quantity of its own apples at 
the exposition to give to the thousands 
of school children that will attend. Con¬ 
sumers, who are interested in buying 
apples direct from the producers, will 
have an opportunity to place their or¬ 
ders at the show and even to buy the 
ftuit there to take home with them, 
lu addition to apples, there will be 
exhibits and demonstrations of maple 
syi’up and honey produced in the East¬ 
ern States. 
The next meeting of the General 
Wans Committee, of which Thomas E. 
Cross of Lagrangeville, N. Y., is chair¬ 
man, will held June 1, or earlier, 
dependent on how soon some of the 
states are able to secure appropriations 
from their legislatures. 
Among the New York State fruitmen 
present were Thomas E. Cross of La¬ 
grangeville; C. R. Shons, Washington- 
^lle; Kirby Lewis, Red Hook; Mr. 
Hiiobard of Hudson, and Mr. Van 
ouren of the Department of Farms and 
Markets. 
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