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Nat'l Horticultural 



Council is Formed 



To Represent Growers 



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

 a Director 



'pHE National Horticultiiial Council, 

 *- organized to represunt the eco- 

 nomic interest of fruit an<l vcgretable 

 growers in the Unit-' 

 ed States, was incor- 

 porated under the' 

 laws of Illinois. Oci 

 tober l.S. 11>2S. The 

 first meeting of the 

 1.5 directors was held 

 in Chicago on Octo- 

 ber 31 when by-lawsi 

 were adopted, officers 

 and the executive 

 committee elected, 

 and plans and poli- 

 cies dcciiled 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 Livei 

 Stock and Meat] 

 Board for the live- 

 stock industry. Th« Council is or- 

 ganized with broad powers and will be 

 in position to reT)resent the industry 

 and work fo'r the solution of economic 

 problems facing fruit and vegetable 

 growers. 



Many Activities 



Its activities and .interest will in- 

 clude legislation, jtaritf problems, 

 transportation, .standardization of 

 commodities, fruit juice and by- 

 product questions, traide 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, 

 ptesirtent; F. L. 

 Granger, first vice- 

 pifesident; Frank 

 tJ Swett. second 

 vice-president; and 

 Charles E. Durst, 

 sqcretary-t r e a s - 

 uifer. 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 apJ)ointed executive 

 secretary. 



Leeper A Dtirector 



The directors are as follows: John Napier 

 Dyer, Indiana, owner of 1.000 acres of land 

 and 350 acres of orchard; Sen.ttor H. M. 

 Dunlap. lllinoi.". owner of 1.400 acres of 

 orchard and the senior penator in point of 

 service iu the Illinois senate; F. L. Granger, 



THE I. A. A. RECORD 



reneral manager of the MichiKan Fruit Grow- 



I rs* Inc., largest co-operative in Michiiran; 



■ouis F. Miller, large greenhouse prowers of 



I >hio, and leader in various ve(?etable ortran- 



i tation movements; M. C. Burritt. president 



f the New York State Horsiciili iiral Society, 



ice-iiresident of the Western New York Fruit 



I ;ri»wfrs* Cnoper.'itive Association and former 



[•a<ier of state exlen>ton in New York : V. II. 



>avis. presiiletit of the Ohio State Horr icultural 



ociety and manager of the CatJiwha Island 



Mrchard Coniptin.v, C)hio; W. C. Reed, Indiana. 



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FROM GROWER TO CONSUMER DIRECT 

 Thousanjls of doll ars worth of apples and oth >r fruits are sold froin this storage 

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

 [o consumers in the tri-cities. Incidentally, the buildings here 

 Farmers' Mutual Reinsurance Co., which has headquarters with 

 igo. 



wner of 220 acres of orchard and president 



) f the Vincennes Nurseries. largest growers of 

 Kerry trees in the United States: Wilson 

 tood. New York, sales manager of the Chau- 



1 auqua and Frie Grape Grower.^' Association; 

 'rank T. Sweet, California, iiresident and gen. 

 ral manager tif the California Tear Growers' 

 association and owner of e,\tensi\e pear or- 

 hards in California: A. H. Leeper. manager 



( f the Illinois Fruit Growers' Exchange. Illi- 

 ois. and owner of orchards in western 

 llinois: Charles Carmichael. Missouri, sec- 



1 ulary of the Ozark Fruit GroVers* Associa- 



1 ion. a large fruit ami vegetalile co-operative 

 perating in Missouri, Arkansas. Tennessee. 



J nd southerr. Illinois; Hen E. Niles. Kentucky, 

 ecrelary of the Kentucky State Horticultural 

 iety and orchard owner; E. L. Balch. 



' ^^ashington. Wenatchee Valley orchardisl and 



oler in org inization muvements in the 



'a<-ilic Northeast: Warren E, Iteehe. Iowa. 



1 lanauer of the largest orchard in Iowa: an<l 



i 'harles E, Durst, etiitor of Fruits and Gardens, 

 commercial fruit growers' paper with head- 



« uarters in Chic.-igo. 



The Council is to be financed by 

 1 lemberships held by individual grow- 

 f rs. horticultural societies, and fruit 

 i nd vegetai)le co-operatives. The coun- 



ry has been divided into nine sections, 

 < ach of which will have one director. 

 ] n addition, there will l>e six directors 



t large. Each state will be represent- 

 ed also by state committees. 



The headquarters of the National 

 Horticultural Council are at 608 So. 

 Dearborn Street. Chicago, and all cor- 

 1 espondence relating to the organiza- 

 \ ion should be directed there. 



New Bulletin Out 



'Market Destinations of Illinois 

 iJrain" is the title of a new bulletin 

 1 ecently published by the University of 

 llinois. The publication concludes a 

 ihree-year study by C. L. Stewart, L. 

 Norton, and L. F, Rickey of the 

 i.gricuitural college staff. 



An estimated total of 215,000.000 

 lushels of corn, oats, and wheat were 



Illinois Farmers Are 



Invited To St. Louis 



Waterways Meeting 



Well Known Speakers Will Discuss Water 

 Transportation 



ILLINOIS fai-niers 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 

 Jlinnesota; Congress- 

 man Wm. E. Hull of 

 Illinois; Ma.ior Gen. 

 Ed,gar Jadwin. chief 

 of Army F^ngineers; 

 William R. Dawes, 

 l)resident, Chicago 

 Association of Commerce; Hon, 

 James A. Reed, U. S. senator from 

 Missouri; Ma.ior-General T. Q. Ash- 

 burn, Iidand 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 

 Missi.ssippi 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. 

 During the same years, Iowa shipped 

 out 90 per cent as much as Illinois, 

 Kansas GO per cent, Nebraska 47 per 

 cent, and Indiana 37 per cent. 



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