VIRTUES OF APPLE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16200, 25 November 1926, Page 14

VIRTUES OF APPLE

NATIONAL APPLE WEEK. VANCOUVER, Oct. 16. •Vancouver recently had an Apple Week to herald the advent of the famous McIntosh Red on the local market, and will shortly have an apple show. Acting probably on the principle that a person cannot have too much of a good thing, the (Canadian Horticultural Council has set the period October 30 to November 6 inclusive as National Apple Week and invites all residents of the Dominion to make a liberal use of apples in their daily menu during that period wliicfi includes Halloween, in the observance of which festival apples have always played a prominent part. The observance of National Apple Week will not he confined to Canada, hut it will also bo kept fty our neighbors to the south. At a national apple conference, held recently in Chicago, plans were made to broadcast throughout the winter information about 1 lie health and food value of the apple and also, for the observance of Apple Week. Representatives of the apple industry from all sections of the country, as well as of all allied and accessory lines, attended tlie sessions and formed a nonprofit publicity corporation, “Apples for Health, Inc.," chartered under the laws of Illinois. This organisation is to carry on a nation-wide campaign to maintain the apple as the king of fruits and to stirrup the American appetite anew for apples.

The opinion was expressed at the conference that apples were in danger of being overlooked by the fruit-eating public, if the apple producers continue to allow the citrus fruit and bananainterests to monopolise public attention.