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Council is or- 



Nat'l Horticultural 



Council is Formed 



To Represent Growers 



Chas. E. Durst is Secretary, A. B. Lceper 

 a Director 



THE National Horticultural Council, 

 organized to represent the eco- 

 nomic interest of fruit and vegetable 

 growers in the Unit- 

 ed States, was incor- 

 porated under the 

 laws of Illinois, Oc- 

 tober 18, 1928. The 

 first meeting of the 

 15 directors was held 

 in Chicago on Octo- 

 ber 31 when by-laws 

 were adopted, officers 

 and the executive 

 committee elected, 

 and plans and poli- 

 cies decided upon. 



It is expected that 

 the Council will func- 

 tion similarly to the 

 National Dairy Coun- 

 cil for the dairy in- 

 dustry, the National 

 Poultry Council for 

 the poultry industry, 

 and the National Live 

 Stock and Meat 

 Board for the live 

 stock industry. The 

 ganized with broad powers and will be 

 in position to represent the industry 

 and work for the solution of economic 

 problems facing fruit and vegetable 

 g^rowers. 



Many Activities 

 Its activities and interest will In- 

 clude legislation, tariff problems, 

 transportation, standardization of 

 commodities, fruit juice and by- 

 product questions, trade practices, bet- 

 ter methods of marketing, and collec- 

 tion and dissemination of information 

 on economic questions. The Council 

 will not engage in marketing nor in 

 the purchase of supplies. 



The following 

 officers and ex- 

 ecutive committee 

 have been elected : 

 John Napier Dyer, 

 president; F. L. 

 Granger, first vice- 

 president; Frank 

 T. Swett, second 

 vice-president; and 

 Charles E. Durst, 

 secretary-t r e a s - 

 urer. The execu- 

 tive commit- 

 tee consists o f 

 John Napier Dyer, F. L. Granger, M. 

 C. Burritt. Louis F. Miller, and 

 Charles Carmichael. Charles E. Durst 

 of Chicago, former director of fruit 

 and vegetable marketing for the 

 I. A. A., has been appointed executive 

 secretary. 



Leeper A Director 



The directors are as follows : John Napier 

 Dyer, Indiana, owner of 1,000 acres of land 

 and 850 acres of orchard; Senator H. H. 

 Duniap. Illinois, owner of 1,400 acrea of 

 orchard, and the senior senator in point of 

 ■erviee in the Illinois senate; F. L. Granger, 



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leneral manager of the Michigan Fruit Grow- 

 ers' Inc., largest co-operative in Michigan; 

 louis F. Miller, large greenhouse growers of 

 ( >hio, and leader in various vegetable organ- 

 i nation movements; M. C. Burritt. president 

 qf the New York State Horticultural Society, 



ice-president of the Western New York Fruit 

 drowers' Cooperative Association and former 



fader of state extension in New York ; V. H. 

 I lavis. president of the Ohio State Horticultural 



ociety and manager of the Catawba Island 

 Orchard Company, Ohio; W. C. Reed, Indiana, 



■ROM GROWER TO CONSUMER DIRECT 

 Thousands of doll 

 house in Rock Islar d 



its products direct o consumers in the tri-cities. Incidentally, the buildings here 

 are insured in the 'armers' Mutual Reinsurance Co., which has headquarters with 

 th: I. A. A. in Chic. igo. 



irs worth of apples and oth-^r fruits are sold from this storage 

 d annually. It is owned by Smith's Fruit Farm which markets 



C. L. Uurst 



( wner of 220 acres of orchard and president 

 c f the Vincennes Nurseries, largest growers of 

 cherry trees in the United States; Wilson 

 1 ;ood. New York, sales manager of the Chau- 

 t luqua and Erie Grape Growers* Association ; 

 I rank T. Sweet, California, president and gen- 

 eral manager of the California Pear Growers' 

 I .ssociation and owner of extensive pear or- 

 c hards in California; A. B. Leeper, manager 

 c f the Illinois Fruit Growers' Exchange, Illi- 

 I ois, and owner of orchards in western 

 Illinois; Charles Carmichael, Missouri, sec- 

 t stary of the Ozark Fruit Growers' Associa- 

 t on. a large fruit and vegetable co-operative 

 c perating in Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, 

 epid southern Illinois; Ben E. Niles, Kentucky, 



cretary of the Kentucky State Horticultural 

 Society and orchard owner; E. L. Balch, 

 1 Washington, Wenatchee Valley orchardist and 

 1 fader in organization movements in the 

 1 aciHc Northeast; Warren E. Beebe, Iowa, 

 I lanager of the largest orchard in Iowa; and 

 Qharles E. Durst, editor of Fruits and Gardens, 



commercial fruit growers' paper with head- 

 charters in Chicago. 



The Council is to be financed by 

 ijiemberships held by individual grow- 

 ers, horticultural societies, and fruit 

 i nd vegetable co-operatives. The coun- 

 try has been divided into nine sections, 

 each of which will have one director. 

 In addition, there will be six directors 

 st large. Each state will be represent- 

 ed also by state committees. 



The headquarters of the National 

 ftorticultural Council are at 608 So. 

 Dearborn Street, Chicago, and all cor- 

 respondence relating to the organiza- 

 tion should be directed there. 



New Bulletin Out 



"Market Destinations of Illinois 

 (train" is the title of a new bulletin 

 recently published by the University of 

 Illinois. The publication concludes a 

 1 hree-year study by C. L. Stewart, L. 



J. Norton, and L. F. Rickey of the During the same years, Iowa shipped 

 Agricultural college staff. out 90 per cent as much as Illinois, 



An estimated total of 215,000,000 Kansas 60 per cent, Nebraska 47 per 

 Ijushels of corn, oats, and wheat were cent, and Indiana 37 per cent. , « 



Illinois Farmers Are 



Invited To St. Louis 



Waterways Meeting 



Well Known Speakers Will Discuss Water 

 Transportation 



ILLINOIS farmers are invited to at- 

 tend the annual meeting of the 

 Mississippi Valley Association to be 

 held at St. Louis, 

 November 2 6-27, 

 1928. 



A long list of able 

 speakers is an- 

 nounced by the As- 

 sociation, who will 

 appear sometime dur- 

 ing the two-day ses- 

 sion. Some of the 

 speakers are as fol- 

 lows: Secretary of 

 War D w i g h t F. 

 Davis; U. S. Senator 

 Henrik Shipstead of 

 Minnesota; Congress- 

 man Wm. E. Hull of 

 Illinois; Major Gen. 

 Edgar Jadwin, chief 

 of Army Engineers; 

 William R. Dawes, 

 president, Chicago 

 Association of Commerce; Hon. 

 James A. Reed, U. S. senator from 

 Missouri; Major-General T. Q. Ash- 

 burn, Inland Waterways Corpora- 

 tion; and Hon. Harry B. Hawes, U. S. 

 senator from Missouri. 



Want 9-Foot Channel 



The M. V. A. is working to com- 

 plete the Lakes-to-the-Gulf Waterway. 

 It hopes to bring about a nine-foot 

 channel from Minneapolis to New 

 Orleans on the Mississippi, from Chi- 

 cago to Mississippi through Illinois, 

 from Pittsburgh to Cairo on the Ohio, 

 and similar channels on other tribu- 

 taries. 



The Association states that on a 

 joint haul where both water and rail 

 service is used, farmers may save ap- 

 proximately 20 per cent of the rail 

 rate that parallels the water hauL If 

 the freight originates on the river and 

 is consigned to another point on the 

 river, the shipper may save as much 

 as 50 per cent of the rail rate be- 

 tween the river ports. 



The Denison bill, fostered by the 

 Mississippi Valley Association, and 

 passed in the last session of congress, 

 provides for the establishment of joint 

 rates between rail and river carriers 

 on the entire Mississippi Waterway 

 system. 



shipped out of Illinois as the annual 

 average for the five years, 1922-26. 





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