American Agriculturist, November 17,1923 
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The Apple Exposition 
“ By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them ” 
I N a splendidly written little circular 
published by the Clintondale Fruit 
Growers’ Cooperative Association of 
Ulster County, and distributed at the 
.Eastern States Apple Exposition, we 
found the following paragraph: 
' “If Rip Van Winkle could to-day 
awake from his long sleep in cool fast¬ 
nesses of the Kaaterskill, and revisit 
his fabled haunts, he would find scores 
of thrifty orchards raising their grace¬ 
ful branches, it would seem, in Thanks¬ 
giving to the kind Power who so 
bountifully blessed this soil, this cli¬ 
mate, and protected this spot for the 
full fruition of its Destiny.” 
This description applies not only to 
the beautiful and productive Hudson 
Valley, but to all of the fruit growing 
sections of the East, as you would all 
agree, had you been able to attend the 
Eastern States Apple Exposition in the 
Grand Central Palace last week. In 
quality, size and artistic arrangement, 
this apple show 
was thg best we 
have ever seen, 
giving one a feel¬ 
ing of pride in 
being a native of 
a land that can 
bring forth so 
bountiful a har¬ 
vest. 
In this largest 
of exposition 
buildings in the 
world, there were 
two whole floors 
devoted to the 
fruit exhibits and 
the allied indus¬ 
tries which man¬ 
ufacture and sell 
the equipment the 
fruit man needs. 
Most of the ex¬ 
hibits were ar¬ 
ranged by States, 
with New York 
easily in the lead, 
both in volume 
and quality. The 
most of New York 
fruit is sold in 
the barrel pack¬ 
age and this fact 
was emphasized in the Western New 
• York “Cataract Brand” exhibit, in the 
long rows of barrels with the tops off 
so that the visiting consumer could see 
New York’s leading commercial vari¬ 
eties, which include the old standbys, 
Baldwin, King, Greening, Northern 
Spy and McIntosh. One attractive 
feature in the exhibit was the cross- 
section of barrels showing the uniform 
pack from the top to the bottom. One 
lesson at least has been learned in 
marketing and that is to make the last 
apple in the pack as good as the first. 
Much of the New York exhibit was 
in sections, put on by cooperating or¬ 
ganizations and institutions. There 
were exhibits of the State Department 
of Agriculture, the New York State 
College of Agriculture and the Geneva 
Experiment Station, which, by the 
way, had an exhibit of ninety-six 
varieties. 
May we stop here to make the com¬ 
ment that in our opinion, as far^is the 
commercial success in apples is con¬ 
cerned, ninety-six varieties is about 
ninety too many. We even question the 
advisability of constantly working to 
discover and exploit new varieties of 
apples, for we have too many already. 
One of the reasons why the Westerners 
have made a success of their apples is 
that they have' confined the number of 
varieties to two or three, which the city 
consumer has come to recognize and 
know. 
The most practical and worth-while 
exhibits were probably those of the co¬ 
operatives. Among those were the 
Hudson Valley Cooperative with its 
new Storm King brand, which had a 
real commercial exhibit, with barreled 
stock right out of storage. This was 
also true of the Western New York Co¬ 
operatives. The Clintondale Coopera¬ 
tive was the outstanding individual 
exhibit of single cooperative packing¬ 
houses. The Western New York Co¬ 
operative Packing Association had a 
large exhibit arranged to emphasize 
their Cataract brand, their uniform 
pack and ‘volume of barreled apple 
business. Present also were many in¬ 
dividual exhibits from the Hudson and 
Champlain Valleys, the latter put on by 
the Clinton and Essex County Farm 
Bureaus. Speaking of barreled apples, 
you will be interested in the comment 
of a Mrs. Consumer at the exhibition 
when she said “Oh, look at the apples 
in barrels.” 
Mention should be made also of the 
attractive exhibit of the Empire State 
Honey Marketing Association. Par¬ 
ticularly interesting- was the comment 
of the honey producer in charge of the 
exhibit who said that he thought he 
could see the beginning of the "end of 
the maple syrup and sugar industry, 
and much more attention paid to pro¬ 
ducing honey. 
The Chautauqua Grape Growers 
broke the monotony of so many apples 
by a large showing of New York 
grapes. In addition to the exhibits 
of the organiza¬ 
tions and institu¬ 
tions mentioned 
above, there were 
many individual 
growers’ exhibits 
which space will 
not permit more 
detailed mention. 
In the shows 
put on by States 
other than New 
York, the Massa¬ 
chusetts e x h i bit 
was easily the 
best. Never any¬ 
where have we 
seen as large and 
fine a display of 
McIntosh apples. 
A Massachusetts 
orchard, some of 
which was in 
Hoorn, and some 
with apples ready 
for the harvest, 
surrounded by a 
typical New Eng¬ 
land stone wall, 
attracted a lot of 
attention, as did 
also the demon- 
stra-toTs who 
showed how Cape Cod cranberries- are 
harvested, sorted and packed. The 
Vermont exhibit emphasized its maple 
products as well as its apples, adver¬ 
tised as “having the flavor of the hills”. 
Maine was well represented. 
Connecticut showed a road with vari¬ 
ous vehicles rapidly moving over it, 
carrying all of Connecticut’s many farm 
products, with fruit in the lead. The 
outstanding feature of the Maryland 
show was an individual display of the 
products _ of the Maryland Orchards 
Corporation, advertising “Maryoco” 
apples. The initials of the State of 
New Hampshire were spelled with 
Greening apples in a sea of Mclntoshes. 
This, together with a map of New 
Hampshire made with apples attracted 
considerable attention. 
The women were on hand, as they 
always' are and should be in these days, 
with demonstrations showing how 
apples and other fruits are used in the 
modern home. There were apple 
recipes, apple jellies, and preserved 
apples of every form and description. 
The chief criticism of this exposition 
was the lack of attendance. While on 
some of the last days there were quite 
a few people in, the numbers did not 
justify the great effort both in time and 
money to put on such a good show. The 
trouble was not due to any lack of pub¬ 
licity, for the show was well advertised 
m both country and city. In our 
opinion, thousands of people were kept 
away by the admission charges. 
Several years ago, when the dairy¬ 
men began, to try to interest the con¬ 
sumer in milk and milk problems, by the 
great milk show, we raised the question 
on the policy of charging admission. We 
never could understand the sense of 
spending many thousands of dollars, 
some of which comes from public funds, 
to advertise a great industry and then 
charge the public admission" to see the 
advertising. As one consumer said: 
1 might spend ten or twenty cents in 
carfare to have you show me at your 
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trance of the New York Exhibit 
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