American Agriculturist, September 29,1923 
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Eastern Apples To Come Into Their Own 
New York Fruit Show to Emphasize Eastern Products—A Radio Talk 
T HE Eastern Apple Exposition and 
Fruit Show will be held in Grand 
Central Palace, New York City, No¬ 
vember 3 to 10. This exposition is 
going to be held because one New York City 
man tried unsuccessfully for two years to 
buy an apple grown in New York State. Be¬ 
ing of an inquiring turn of mind, he called 
a meeting of representative fruit growers 
and officials of various horticultural societies 
and members of State departments of agri¬ 
culture to find the reason for this condition. 
That meeting was well attended and this 
apple exposition is the result. 
The exposition will occupy the entire third 
and fourth floors of the Palace, covering 
nearly one and one-half acres in area and be 
participated in by the New England States, 
New York and all of the other eastern apple 
producing States as far South as Georgia, 
either officially or by large exhibits from in¬ 
dividual growers. 
The fourth floor will be overflowing with 
the products of the orchard and vine¬ 
yard, with bees and their product in infinite 
variety and with maple products. One of 
the most striking features on this floor 
will be a beautiful bank of vari-colored ap¬ 
ples harmoniously arranged from the New 
York State Experiment Station located at 
Geneva and containing specimens of all the 
leading varieties of apples grown in the 
eastern States. 
The Home Economic^ Department of 
Cornell, will show a large assortment of 
canned fruits, jellies marmalades and other 
preserved fruits. An expert will be in con¬ 
stant attendance to explain just how this 
work is done. This exhibit will be in charge 
of Miss Brewer. 
Demonstrations in preparing apples in 
different ways will be carried on under the 
supervision of Miss Van Arsdale 
of The Teachers’ College of Co¬ 
lumbia University. Printed re¬ 
cipes showing how these foods 
are prepared will be distributed. 
To demonstrate the way apples 
are graded, sized and packed, an 
apple grading machine will be 
used and apples will be sized, 
graded and packqd during the 
exposition. 
Apples will not be the only 
fruits shown. There will be 
grapes, peaches and pears. A 
strawberry bed filled with red 
luscious ripe berries will be a 
decided novelty. Strong com¬ 
petition is developing among the 
different States and many novel 
and striking features will be in¬ 
troduced. 
Hundreds of barrels of apples 
will be given away and every 
boy and girl admitted to the 
show will receive a supply. Some 
of the largest manufacturers of 
cider will press the juice from 
the apples and give it to all who 
desire it. Sweet cider is an im¬ 
portant by-product of the apple¬ 
growing industry and its con¬ 
sumption should be largely in¬ 
creased. 
During the exposition the an¬ 
nual convention of the American 
Pomological Society will be held. 
This is one of the oldest and 
most important societies of its 
kind in the United States. Its 
president is Dr. Liberty Hyde 
Bailey who was for many years 
Dean of the New York State Col¬ 
lege. of Agriculture and is an 
authority on things pertaining 
By T. E. CROSS 
Member of Executive Committee of the New 
York State Horticultural Society 
to agriculture. A very interesting and in¬ 
structive program has been prepared for 
this convention and special rates will be given 
by the railroads to all who attend. 
On the fourth floor will be continuous mov¬ 
ing pictures without extra charge, illustrat¬ 
ing every part of the work necessary to pro¬ 
duce fancy apples, including picking and 
packing. On the third floor will be the trade 
exhibits. There will be shown. everything 
in spray machinery, dusters, fruit packages, 
picking ladders, chemicals used in spraying 
and dusting, cider-mill machinery, nursery 
stock and a full line of tillage implements, 
trucks and tractors. 
Not so many years ago New York was the 
banner apple producing State in the nation 
not only in quantity but in quality as well. 
During the past few years the Pacific Coast 
States have increased their production of 
apples to such an extent that Washington is 
a close competitor of New York. 
Owing to the great distance from large 
markets, these Pacific States have been com¬ 
pelled to grade and pack their fruit with ex¬ 
treme care, as the high freight costs pro¬ 
hibits shipping anything except perfect fruit. 
Because of superior grading and packing 
and world-wide advertising and not because 
of their superior flavor, western apples have 
very largely monopolized the fruit-stand 
trade in our eastern cities. 
The eastern apple grower of to-day is 
producing the best apples grown in the 
world. He is standardizing his pack so that 
a buyer when selecting a recognized standard 
brand will be sure to get what he pays for. 
There is no apple in the world to compare 
with our eastern grown McIntosh and Spy 
for dessert nor with our R. I. Greening, 
Twenty Ounce, and Baldwins for cooking. 
There are many thousands of people in 
the Metropolitan district of New York and 
other cities who never tasted an eastern 
grown apple and this exposition will give 
these countless thousands a wonderful op¬ 
portunity to see and to eat of these beauti¬ 
ful apples, the best fruit God ever gave to 
man. 
Fruit in the Medicine Chest 
E. L. VINCENT 
I T sometimes costs dearly to learn a very 
simple lesson. It was so in our case. 
Fruit had been scarce all summer in our 
locality. The crop is not usually a failure 
with us, but that year it was. We did not 
think much about it. There were plenty of 
vegetables and other good things to eat, so 
why worry because we did not have fruit? 
The time came when I wished I had done a 
bit more worrying beforehand; it would have 
saved my worrying afterward. 
Wife began to get yellow in the face. The 
very whites of her eyes had that color. When 
we went to church or attended any similar 
gathering, it was hard for her to keep awake. ^ 
If we had had our wits about us, we might ■ 
have known that she was dreadfully bilious. ■ 
As it was, we thought little about it and did 1 
nothing whatever to counteract the evident ] 
tendency toward a sick spell. 
Along the forepart of November we made 
a trip up into the country to see wife’s 
father. We rode in a carriage, and on the 
way an early snow storm came on beating di¬ 
rectly into our faces for several miles. Not 
being well prepared for such a storm, wife 
had on a pair of gloves that did not cover 
her wrists very well. 
- The result was that she took 
cold that day. That night she 
seemed to be frozen to death. 
She hovered over the register, 
but could not get warm. One 
of her ankles began to pain her. 
It was swollen, and although we 
began to do everything we could 
to relieve the pain, the next day 
we called a doctor. The pain 
had spread so that almost all 
parts of her body were affected. 
That was the end of her sitting 
up for months. At Christmas 
time she was a little better, so 
that the boys got her into a 
chair and brought her down¬ 
stairs at dinner time. But such 
misery as she did suffer! At 
times she could not bear the 
weight of the thinnest sheet on 
her body without groaning. It 
was only when warm weather 
came the next year that she was 
really able to sit up a little 
while, and then she had a bad 
heart trouble. The story of how 
that was cured is not to be told 
just now, although it is very 
much worth while. 
But the thing that we learned 
from this unpleasant experience 
was, that never again should we 
be without fruit. I am just as 
sure as I am of anything that 
if we had had plenty of fruit be¬ 
fore this sickness came on, wife 
never would have been com¬ 
pelled to suffer as she did. Now 
we have fruit of some kind every 
day, and many times a day, as 
the appetite demands. It may 
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