. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 50 BETTER FRUIT Jawuary Five lots in this class scored 100%, five scored 99% and 35 scored 95% or better. The sweepstakes prize in the 5-box class was awarded to Mr. F. C. Price, on Yellow Belleflower, grown on his ranch near Watsonville, his score being 100%. In this class there were six per- fect scores, 10 of 99% each and 59 of 95% or better. In the 1-box class there were 20 scores of 100%, and 147 of 95% or better. The sweepstakes plate was shown by Mr. A. E. Elsbree, of Sonora, Toiilumne County, with five huge Wolf River apples, while the largest apple
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 50 BETTER FRUIT Jawuary Five lots in this class scored 100%, five scored 99% and 35 scored 95% or better. The sweepstakes prize in the 5-box class was awarded to Mr. F. C. Price, on Yellow Belleflower, grown on his ranch near Watsonville, his score being 100%. In this class there were six per- fect scores, 10 of 99% each and 59 of 95% or better. In the 1-box class there were 20 scores of 100%, and 147 of 95% or better. The sweepstakes plate was shown by Mr. A. E. Elsbree, of Sonora, Toiilumne County, with five huge Wolf River apples, while the largest apple in the show was brought by Mr. F. J. Ralph, also of Sonora. It was a Wolf River, measuring 17 inches in circumference and weighing 23 ounces. The feature exhibits ranked high in artistic design, and in their significance to the apple industry. Rated as first by the judge of this class, Mr. J. A. Filcher, secretary of the State Agricultural Society, was the "Kiss of the Waters," by San Monte Fruit Co., of Watson- ville. This consisted 'of a large disc mounted on a suitable pedestal. On each side of the disc was shown the Western Hemisphere in green fruit, the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans being done in dried apples and in the likeness of the faces of beautiful women, their lips meeting at the site of the Panama Canal. Second place was given to the Japanese Association, of Watsonville, on a large ocean steamer, complete in every detail, covered with dried fruit, trimmed and loaded with fresh, and sailing through a sea of green apples fashioned in the like- ness of waves. Another feature worthy of special mention was the Transformer, shown by the Gravenstein Apple Show Association, a unique machine into one end of which Gravenstein apples were automatically fed while from the other poured a stream of twenty-dollar gold pieces. There were approximately 30,000 admissions to the show, among them an excursion trainload of five hundred prom- inent bankers from the State of New
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