Fniit Growers Meet 



Elect Talmage De Frees 



Complete approval of the present 

 marketing program, followed during 

 recent years, was expressed by 100 fruit 

 growers who attended the l6th annual 

 meeting of the Illinois Fruit Growers 

 Exchange at Car- 

 bondale, May 12. 



Directors whose 

 terms expired on 

 April 30 were all 

 re-elected. They 

 are : Arthur Fore- 

 man, Pike county ; 

 Floyd Anderson, 

 Union county; Al- 

 fred Kinsey, Mar- 

 ion county; and, 

 Chester B o 1 a n d. 



Talmage OeFrees 



Edgar county. Officers re-elected were : 

 Talmage DeFrees, president; R. B. 

 Endicott, vice-president; Logan Colp, 

 secretary-treasurer. 



Harry W. Day, manager, reported a 

 small sales volume last year caused by 

 the small fruit crop. He pointed out 

 that the Exchange has taken an active 

 part in the organization of apple grow- 

 ers in western Illinois. The Exchange, 

 cooperating with the lAA, had secured 

 freight rate adjustments for apple 

 growers. Day said. Such adjustments 

 were needed to bring rates for Illinois 

 apples into line with rates from eastern 

 states. 



Crop prospects indicate that the 

 Exchange will be called upon to handle 

 more than a normal amount of fruit in 

 1937. Although the apple outlook is 

 still doubtful, it is estimated that the 

 peach crop will exceed 3000 carloads. 

 The pear crop too, is expected to be 

 about normal. 



Manager Day said that 25 new mem- 

 bers, representing large tonnages, were 

 signed up during the year. 



If you see an airplane hovering over 



your farm this summer don't be 

 alarmed. It will probably be one of 

 the federal aerial mapping planes em- 

 ployed by the AAA to take photo- 

 graphs of 12,414 square miles in Illi- 

 nois this year. Plans indicate that 23 

 Illinois counties will be mapped in this 

 fashion in 1937. 



As the planes fly along, photogra- 

 phers snap pictures which are later en- 

 larged to a given scale. When the 

 pictures are pasted together a map^is 

 formed. The federal men can then 

 measure the size of fields with a ruler 

 in a few seconds. 



This method of surveying is quite 

 accurate and is much cheaper and easier 

 than sending a large crew of surveyors 

 out who must walk over the land to 



CONGRATULATIONS RICH! 

 Dave Miaher, Center, Congratulates A. E. Richardson On Biggest Month's Butineu 

 — 2,019 Auto Insurance Policies — In April. E. J. Ernst, Left, is Secretary To Mr. 

 Richardson. 



measure it. The AAA uses these maps 

 to check the number of acres in each 

 farm in connection with the Soil Con- 

 servation Program. 



Illinois Tax Commission the power to 

 enforce any reassessment order they 

 might make within a county. 



Authority has been given the execu- 

 tive officers of the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association, by the board of directors, 

 to offer an amendment to the present 

 Illinois tax law that would grant the 



Vegetables may be successfully pre- 

 served by freezing, without special fa- 

 cilities, in any cold storage locker plant 

 where rooms can be held at zero degrees 

 Fahrenheit, the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture has demonstrated. 



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