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at the same time do away with any objection 

 that eastern apple buyers and fruit inspectors 

 may have as to the material used being poison- 



The fruit growers of America have requested 

 the American Farm Bureau Federation to call 

 a conference of their representatives to discuss 

 ways and means of advancing their interests. 

 President J. R. Howard has issued a call for 

 such a meeting to be held in the Congress 

 Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, on April 5. The De- 

 partment of Cooperative Marketing will have 

 the meeting in charge. Each State Farm 

 Bureau Federation has been requested to send 

 at least one oflicial representative of the fruit 

 growers of its state. 



The Welch Grape Juice Company announces 

 that it will build a grape juice factory at 

 Springdale, Arkansas, to be ready for operation 

 in 1922-23. The first investment in land and 

 buildings will be about |300,000. It is the in- 

 tention of the company to build additional 

 units as fast as the growth of the acreage in 

 the Ozark grape belt warrants. Farmers in 

 Ihe v ; cinity of Springdale have pledged them- 

 selves to plant 1,500 acres of grapes this year 

 in addition to the acreage which the grape 

 juice company has purchased. 



E. C. Crosby, who, with his son, lives on a 

 15-acre orchard, 15 miles southeast of Spokane, 

 has prepared figures on the apple business 

 which he thinks should be investigated. The 

 Crosbys lost their 1919 apple crop because of 

 lale frost, but by smudging last spring they 

 raised an enormous crop of the best quality 

 and at the time of picking figured upon a net 

 profit of $4,000. Their apples were hand- 

 sorted and carefully packed and in many of 

 Ihe boxes a card was placed asking the con- 

 sumer to write the grower how much he paid 

 for the box and in what condition the apples 

 were found. Mr. Crosby says that from Pitts- 

 burg, where he netted an average of 60 cents 

 a box above freight charges, two consumers 

 wrote that they paid $7.25 and $7.75 a box and 

 that from Indianapolis, where his apples 

 netted 65 cents, the consumer wrote that he 

 paid $10.25 for a box of extra fancy Jonathans. 

 All reported the fruit in good condition. Mr. 

 Crosby further states that receipts show that 

 the railroad companies received $3,600 for 

 transporting his crop, but that in addition to 

 receiving nothing for his labor, he will also 

 be out all the money paid for help in raising 

 and marketing the crop. He figured that each 

 box cost him $1.10 when put upon the market. 



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