. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Views of the National Apple Show, Spokane, 1910 Showing a car of Spitzenbeigs exhibited by C. H. Sproat, Hood River, Oregon, winning the sweepstakes and first prize for Spitzenbergs, and a car of Newtowns exhibited by Avery Broth- ers, Hood River, winning the first prize for Newtowns. This was one of many similar exhibits last year, there being about twenty-flve cars on exhibition. The Fourth National Apple Show will be held this year at Spokane, November 23-30, and it promises to be a better show than ever before, and. we might add that the National Apple Show o
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Views of the National Apple Show, Spokane, 1910 Showing a car of Spitzenbeigs exhibited by C. H. Sproat, Hood River, Oregon, winning the sweepstakes and first prize for Spitzenbergs, and a car of Newtowns exhibited by Avery Broth- ers, Hood River, winning the first prize for Newtowns. This was one of many similar exhibits last year, there being about twenty-flve cars on exhibition. The Fourth National Apple Show will be held this year at Spokane, November 23-30, and it promises to be a better show than ever before, and. we might add that the National Apple Show of Spokane has never been equaled by any other apple show one-sixth. Apples may be grown prof- itably in any part of New York, where agriculture is practiced, and commer- cial orchards are found in practically all parts of the state. There are, how- ever, three chief apple districts, the most important of which is the region about the central lakes and northward to Lake Ontario. The several counties in this great area probably produce more apples than are grown in any region of equal size in the world. The chief asset of this apple belt is the climate, which is comparatively uni- form in both temperature and humidity, brought about by the large, deep bodies of water surrounding the region. Here is the home of the Baldwin, the Green- ing and the Roxbury Russet—all far famed for quality and quantity. The region on both sides of the Hudson, from Long Valley to Lake George, com- prises the second most important apple region; added to the three sorts named above, Jonathan, Spitzenberg and New- town Pippin are grown. The high and ture of this fruit. It is not likely the acreage will soon vary much from that at present planted, which is 213,598 trees, producing 329,445 bushels of apples, chiefly Baldwins, Greenings, Russets and Spies. In spite of the fact that the people of Massachusetts probably consume more apples than other people on the same area, the state can now hardly be said
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