Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1911 — Apple Show for Indiana in State Capital in November. [ARTICLE]

Apple Show for Indiana in State Capital in November.

C. G. Woodbury, of Purdue university, secretary of the Indiana apple commission, which will give an apple show in Indianapolis in November, has begun a state-wide campaign to interest apple growers in becoming exhibitors. The commission is making up a premium list of several thousand dollars, the prizes to go only to Indiana apples growers. While the show will not be opened for several weeks, Mr. Woodbury is insisting that growers begin now to prepare their exhibits and is sending out information to prospective exhibitors concerning methods of preparing for the show. A large number of growers have informed the secretary of their intention to enter the competition. W. B. Flick, of Lawrence, is prepared, Mr. Woodbury says, to supply exhibitors with boxes for their apples. Iff a circular letter now being” senT out, the secretary explains the purpose of the show as follows: “The purpose is not only to show what Indiana is now doing in apple culture, but also to develop the fruit resources of the state, to the end of restoring the state to her old place as a producer of apples and to give her front rank both in quality and quantity of fruit. Because of the widespread and increasing interest in fruit growing, the commissioner’s plans have been received with enthusiasm by growers, commission houses, consumers, county horticultural societies, commercial organizations and others, who are not only indorsing the show, but are predicting that a revival of the old orchards and the planting of new ones will start a great volume of wealth into the orchard districts and add millions of dollars to the state’s land values. It will also, it is predicted, bring into use thousands of acres of land now idle and unfit for general farming, and will keep within the state three or four million dollars now annually sent away by consumers for apples.