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Manager and beard ef directers ef llllneli Fruit Grewers Exchange are shewn during 

 Carbendale meeting. Left te riglit: (front) D. B. Kirtiond, Cleric county; President A. O. 

 Eckert, St. Clair; Manager L L Colvis; L. A. Floyd, Bond; Secretary-Treasurer F. G. Ander- 

 son. Union; (second row) H. E. Hartley, Marion; Orin Hertz, Washington county form 

 adviser; Vice President E. D. McGuire, Jaclcson; William Beoumon, Johnson; (back row) 

 Trevor Jeffries, Jefferson; Arthur Foreman, Pike; Lyman Creed, Marion; and R. B. Endlcett, 

 Pulaski. Not present is Chester Boiand, Edgar. 



Fruit Growers Exchange Marks 



25th Anniversary with New Records 



THE ILLINOIS Fruit Growers Ex- 

 change, pioneer fruit and vegetable co- 

 operative, announced at the marketing 

 conference of the lAA annual convention 

 in Chicago that its $125,000 cold storage 

 plant will be ready for use early in 1947. 



Near completion of this new building 

 with its 60,000 bushel storage capacity 

 climaxes 25 years of growth for the 

 Fruit Growers Exchange, first of the lAA 

 marketing co-ops. 



Surviving good times and bad, suc- 

 cesses and failures, the Fruit Growers 

 Exchange is now in a strong financial 

 position and has reached a high in mem- 

 bership and sales volume, its manager, 

 L. L. Colvis, stated in his annual report. 



Fruit growers themselves subscribed 

 $65,000 in class A preferred stock for 

 the new building and offered more money 

 than this after the stock was sold. 



Volume of fruit handled this year was 

 placed at 370,522 bushels. Accounting 

 for most of the fruit marketed this year 

 were: apples, 198,839 bushels, peaches, 

 155,939 tsushels, and strawberries, 4,505 

 crates. 



In his report on fruit marketing Colvis 

 said that this year nearly every state 

 from Massachusetts to Colorado received 

 shipments of fruit from the Illinois 

 Fruit Growers Exchange. 



As an aid in marketing of fruit and 

 vegetables a teletype has been installed 

 in the Carbondale office and is in addi- 

 tion to the special long distance tele- 



phone and direct Western Union wire 

 already in use. 



Although the greatest volume origin- 

 ates in southern Illinois around Carbon- 

 dale, Colvis said, many growers from 

 other parts of the state sell through the 

 Exchange, especially apple growers in 

 Eastern and Western Illinois and straw- 

 berry growers of the Edgar County 

 Association. 



Explaining that most sales are made 

 through the Carbondale office, he pointed 

 out that almost all fruit goes direct from 

 grower's packing shed to its destination 

 and does not pass through Exchange 

 warehouses. 



Their campaign to improve the qual- 

 ity and pack of fruit being shipped is 

 paying dividends. This year a majority 

 of sales were on the basis of U. S. No. I 

 and U. S. fancy grades. 



In addition, repeat orders from buyers 

 surpassed anything the Exchange has 

 experienced during the past five years, 

 Colvis said. 



New sales manager is R. S. McBride 

 who began working for the Exchange in 

 June. He will alternate his time be- 

 tween Illinois during the busy summer 

 season and a Texas organization during 

 winter months. 



Much of the field work done for co- 

 operating orchardists is handled by Dud- 

 ley Klamp, who also acts as assistant 

 sales manager. 



Right arm of the marketing exchange 

 is the purchasing subsidiary, the Fruit 



Exchange Supply Company, headed by 

 Manager Fred Bierer. 



The supply company has maintained a 

 stair-step growth for the fifth consecu- 

 tive year, Colvis indicated. 



For the first nine months of 1946 

 sales totaling $425,000 were made. This 

 compares to $380,000 for '45, $260,000 

 for '44, $152,000 for '43, and $82,000 

 for '42. 



The supply company returned these 

 dividends to its members: 4 per cent 

 on baskets, 8 per cent on spray materials, 

 5 per cent on fertilizers, 10 per cent on 

 miscellaneous. 



Many dividend checks, the report in- 

 dicated, ranged from $100 to $500. 



ANNOUNCE CORN LOAN 

 RATES FOR '46 CROP 



Corn loan rates for the 1946 crop, 

 ranging by counties from $1.05 to 

 $1.34 per bushel and averaging $1.15 

 nationally, were announced Nov. 18 by 

 the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



Last year's national average was 

 $1.10 per bushel, the rates by counties 

 varying from 90 cents to $1.15. 



The 1946 rates are based upon 90 

 per cent of the parity price of corn 

 as of Oct. 1, 1946. Parity on that date 

 was $1.28 as a national average, as con- 

 trasted with $1.12 at the same time last 

 year. 



Corn eligible for loans must grade 

 No. 3 or better, except for moisture 

 content, or No. 4 test weight only. 

 Loans will be available to producers 

 from Dec. 1, 1946 through July 31, 

 1947. t 



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 have your rural route number, 

 or in the case of a town address, 

 the street and number. County 

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 make certain that full and com- 

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 all new members, otherwise they 

 will not receive the lAA REC- 

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