. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 16 THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [Saturday, December 25, 1915 i THE FARM i THE PROFIT OF "TAKING ; It pays to be particular. A tiny â worm in an apple of the Oregon ex- hibit at the Panama Exposition cost a highly coveted prize. The sweep- slakes award for the world's best ap- ples went to Fred Conklin of Brews- ter. Wn., for his exhibit of five boxes of old winesaps. They were the pink of perfection, the judges declared, after their arduous ta;,k of examining exhibits from every apple-growing sec- lion in the United States. The townspeople of Brews
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 16 THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [Saturday, December 25, 1915 i THE FARM i THE PROFIT OF "TAKING ; It pays to be particular. A tiny â worm in an apple of the Oregon ex- hibit at the Panama Exposition cost a highly coveted prize. The sweep- slakes award for the world's best ap- ples went to Fred Conklin of Brews- ter. Wn., for his exhibit of five boxes of old winesaps. They were the pink of perfection, the judges declared, after their arduous ta;,k of examining exhibits from every apple-growing sec- lion in the United States. The townspeople of Brewster and the bucolic wiseacres thereabouts were inclined to discourage Henry E, 1 weed, a young student of the Wash- ington state agricultural college, when he set out to select an exhibit for the World's Fair in San Francisco. Young Tweed showed such infinite pains that people laughed at him. The critics de- clared he was only wasting time, "as he wouldn't get the prize ; But the young man had his own ideas. He realized that notwithstanding the extraordinary precaution taken to keep worms out of orchards in the Okan- ogan river country, one ' of these squirming descendants of the original serpent of the Garden of Eden might perchance have crept in. He not only was particular to guard the pride of the Okanogan apple belt against any possible humiliation from this source, but he seemed to pay particular atten- tion to every little precautionary de- tail. He carefully selected and weighed each apple and saw to it that there was not the fraction of an ounce dif- lerence in the weight of each one. Wise old orchardists laughed right through their whiskers when young Tweed used postal scales to weigh ap- ples. He took more of their jibes good naturedly when he used calinip- ers in order to be sure the measure- ments o fthe 575 apples were identical. That was all. After selecting the best apples in the world young Tweed was not satisfied until he got Harry Rog- ers, c
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