June, 1922 



National Sales Body 



A NATIONAL sales agency, the Fed- 

 •^^*- erated Fruit Growers, to co-operatively 

 market the American fruit crop was created 

 a month ago in Chicago. J. S. Edwards 

 was elected vice-president of the new or- 

 ganization and given managerial authority 

 and instructed to proceed with the forma- 

 tion of a sales department. 



The establishment of this agency is the 

 result of the work of the Producers' Na- 

 tional Fruit Marketing Com.mittee ap- 

 pointed by the American Farm Bureau 

 Federation to develop an improved market- 

 ing system for the fruit growers of 

 America. This committee, consisting of 22 

 men, has made a complete analysis of the 

 various factors affecting fruit marketing, 

 has studied the work of the various co- 

 operative fruit marketing organizations and 

 as a result has developed a plan for the 

 correlation of these local co-operatives into 

 one national organization. 



This temporary board of directors for 

 the Federated Fruit Growers was appointed 

 by the committee: 



James Nicol, Michigan, president; J. 

 S. Edwards, California, vice-president and 

 acting general manager; W. B. Armstrong, 

 Washington; Sheridan W. Baker, Cali- 

 fornia; C. E. Durst, Illinois; B. F. 

 Moomaw, Virginia; N. R. Peet, New York; 

 C. E. Stewart, Florida. 



J. S. Edwards, the vice-president, 

 selected to act as general manager, repre- 

 sents western fruit growers. He is now 

 president of the Gold Buckle Association, 

 one of the largest growers' associations in 

 California and is a director in the Cali- 

 fornia Fruit Growers' E.xchange and in the 

 Fruit Growers' Supply Company. 



The new organization will open offices 

 in Chicago at once. National standariza- 

 tion of fruit grades and an advertising 

 campaign to increase consumption of all 

 fruit, will be two of the jobs undertaken 

 bv the Federated Fruit Growers. 



BETTER FRUIT 



Fage Seventeen 



Shippers' Convention 



EVT.RY important apple growing district 

 of the Pacific Northwest is making 

 plans to entertain at least a portion of the 

 delegates who will come to Seattle, in 

 July, to attend the convention of the Inter- 

 national Apple Shippers' Association. The 

 Spokane district, Wenatchee, Yakima and 

 Hood River growers and shippers al! have 

 tentative promise that groups of the visitors 

 will pay them a call. 



In Seattle a general committee has been 

 busily at work for many weeks arranging 

 for the convention. A. R. Currie is chair- 

 man of this committee. It is assured that 

 the visiting shippers will not only be hewn 

 a good time, but that many beneficial 

 results will come from their sessions and 

 investigations. 



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Do You Want Duty-Free 

 POTASH? 



Recently a United States Senator, who is actively engaged 

 in trying to defeat the ' 'joker" in the Free List which puts 

 a 100 per cent duty on agricultural Potash, asked why the 

 farmers were not represented at the hearings before the 

 Senate Finance Committee when the subject was under 

 consideration. A man, who attended these hearings, called 

 the Senator's attention to the fact that three owners of 

 farms had appeared, representing New Jersey, Missouri 

 and Indiana; that the New Jersey Federation of County 

 Boards of Agriculture, and the Representative of the New 

 Jersey State Grange appeared; that the Representative of 

 the National Grange made a statement; that the National 

 Farm Bureau Federation and the Representative of the 

 National Bureau of Farm Organizations had been actively 

 working for free Potash, and that the Washington Repre- 

 sentatives of these Agricultural Organizations represented 

 millions of real farmers, who paid good money to belong 

 to these organizations and to support their representation 

 in Washington, upon whom they depended to look after 

 bgislation affecting farmers' interests. 



Later on it developed that other Senators had this same 

 thought — that the farmers were not asking that Potash 

 remain on the Free List. There can be no question that all 

 farmers most strongly object to paying two dollars for a 

 dollar's worth of Potash. 



Ten people, representing farmers, fertilizer manufacturers, 

 producers of imported potash, and former producers of 

 American potash, appeared before the Senate Finance 

 Committee, or filed briefs on the subject. 



Of these, nine asked that Potash remain on the Free List 

 and one asked for the duty. 



Why then have the Senators come to believe that farmers 

 are indifferent about the matter? 



The explanation is to be found in the fact that the ' 'United 

 States Potash Producers' Association" maintains in Wash- 

 ington an organization which is very active in urging a duty 

 on the farmers' Potash. At the hearing their propagandist 

 shouted: "Where was the American farmer yesterday? 

 Where was the farmer of the South, who uses more Potash 

 than any other farmer in the country? . . . Where was the 

 American Farm Bureau Federation, which has its offices in 

 Washington? Where was the National Bureau of Farm 

 Organizations, representing thousands of farmers ? ' ' 



This was clear bluff, for these organizations were repre- 

 sented and they have taken their stand squarely for Free 

 Potash. 



But the bluff, constantly repeated, seems to have made an 

 impression that will be costly to the consumers of Potash, 

 unless immediate steps are taken to show the Senators that 

 farmers are very much in earnest about the matter. The 

 farmers' representatives in Washington must be supported 

 by the farmers at home. 



'The onhj effrrtire way to do this is for farmers to write to 

 both of their United States Senators at Washington, urging 

 them to see that the "joker" at the end of Paragraph 16S5 

 be struck out and that Potash used in fertilizers remain on 

 the Free List, where it ahvays has been. 



The Senate is now considering the Tariff Bill. Write your 

 Senators today. 



During the time when foreign Potash could not be obtained. 

 Potash sold at more than ten times the prewar or the present 

 prices. Then the American producers, some of whom are 

 called the "Borax Brigade", had the opportunity of profi- 

 teering to the limit, and of selling at very high prices Potash 

 of an inferior, and sometimes injurious kind. 

 Now they ask for "protection" in the form of one of the 

 most excessive duties in the whole Tariff Act. 

 Unless the farmers act promptly, they are likely to get it. 



SOIL & CROP SERVICE, POTASH SYNDICATE 



42 Broadway 



H. A. HUSTON, Manager 



New York 



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