Sees A Bumper 

 Apple and Peach 

 Crop In 1949 



A BUMPER crop of apples and 

 peaches for Illinois in 1949 was 

 predicted by R. S. McBride, man- 

 ager of the Illinois Fruit Growers' 

 Exchange, during the recent lAA 

 annual meeting. 



Apple and peach trees are in a healthy 

 condition and have been showing numer- 

 ous buds. Only a severe winter kill 

 would reduce next year's crop prospects, 

 McBride said. 



Fruit growers have made more money 

 this year than last, McBride said, al- 

 though they have not benefited as much 

 from general prosperity as have other 

 farmers. 



The Illinois Fruit Growers' Exchange 

 is a marketing cooperative organized to 

 sell fruits and vegetables for members, 

 most of whom are concentrated in south- 

 ern Illinois. 



Sales for the Exchange are handled 

 from the Carbondale office. Apples, 

 peaches, strawberries, and tomatoes are 

 the principal crops marketed. 



More and more stress is being placed 

 by the Exchange on quality. This year 

 it introduced a new label, Prairie Chief, 

 which is used only on top quality U. S.- 

 No. 1 fruit. McBride said it was well 

 received throughout the trade. Their 

 more widely known Illini label is used 

 only on U. S. - Fancy. 



The Exchange also continued its pro- 

 gram of federal inspection on all fruits 

 shipped by rail. All cars of peaches 

 were pre-cooled to insure better delivery. 

 The cold storage building at drbon- 

 dale built and owned by the Exchange 

 was used during the 1947-48 season for 

 the first time. 



The 59,000 bushels of apples put into 

 this storage space came out in excellent 

 condition, McBride said. About three- 

 fourths of the space already had been 

 rented in early fall by fruit growers for 

 the coming fall and winter season. 



The growing season this year was 

 earlier than in 1947, McBride said, and 

 growing conditions generally were better. 

 Crops, he said, were lighter throughout 

 the state but harvesting came at a better 

 time in relation to markets. 



The total volume handled by the Ex- 

 change as compared to 1947 gives a fair 

 picture of the yields of the crops for the 

 state as a whole during 1948 and 1947. 

 Following are the 1948 volumes with 

 the 1947 volumes in parentheses: 



Apples 389,277 bushels (192,354), 

 peaches 134,529 (225,735), strawberries 

 14,766 crates (23,141), tomatoes 21,736 

 (5,806), and miscellaneous 1,500 (913). 



lAA membarshfp da- 

 portment perionnsl 

 or* givon helpful tug- 

 goMtlont for the latt 

 time by I. A. Evant, 

 on hit retirement Dec. 

 I. Making mental 

 notes of the proce- 

 dures to be followed 

 are, left to right: [lla 

 Koch, Hilda Hanson, 

 Blanche Hews, Sophia 

 Bauman, Thereto 

 Hem, Mary Lynch, 

 who succeeds tvant 

 at department tuper- 

 vltor, and Margaret 

 Welth. 



Evans Retires 

 After 28 Years 

 On lAA Staff 



I A. EVANS, for 28 years an em- 

 ployee of the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association, retired under the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association retirement 

 plan Dec. 1. Evans, supervisor of 

 the membership records department, 

 was the Association's oldest employee in 

 {X)int of service and worked continuously 

 in the same department. 



After four months on a temporary 

 basis in the summer of 1920, he was 

 permanently employed by the lAA on 

 Feb. 1, 1921. 



The oldest of four boys and a girl, 

 Evans was born in Farwell, Mich. His 

 father was a country doctor in that lum- 

 ber woods area. 



After completing the country school 

 grades, he lived with an uncle on a farm 

 in Ohio while attending high school. 

 Then he studied at Olivet College in 

 Ypsilanti, Mich. 



When Evans came to the lAA, it was 

 as a traveling man. The membership 

 records were kept in each county Farm 

 Bureau office, so his work took him 

 around the state by train from three to 

 seven times annually. In the early 1930's, 

 he switched to auto travel. 



The membership records were trans- 

 ferred to Chicago in 1934 and 1935, 

 since which time Evans' work has been 

 centered entirely in the home office. 



The dean of lAA employees has seen 

 the Association grow from a member- 

 ship of 58,000 in depression years to 

 the nation's leading state Farm Bureau 

 with almost 156,000 members. Like- 

 wise he has seen the office and field staffs 

 grow from a mere 10 people to today's 

 1,100. 



Mr. and Mrs. Evans, whose home is 



in Brookfield, a suburb of Chicago, plan 

 to spend the winter in Compton, Califor- 

 nia, with their son Kenneth, a junior 

 college teacher. 



The Evans' have three other children: 

 Dr. R. N., an osteopath in LaGrange; 

 Mrs. Alice Lefler, Brookfield, and Mrs. 

 William Heilmann, Bridgeport, N. J. 

 Six youngsters in the family address Mr. 

 Evans as "Grandpa." 



Honor Farm Advisers 

 Tarble^ Kemp, Kibler 



THREE Illinois farm advisers were 

 among the 113 from 36 states to be 

 awarded distinguished service certifi- 

 cates presented by the National Asso- 

 ciation of County Agricultural Agents 

 at their annual banquet held recently in 

 Chicago. 



The three Illinois farm advisers hon- 

 ored were Charles Tarble, Cumberland 

 county, Clarence T. Kibler, Jersey, and 

 Arnold R. Kemp, Knox. 



They received this honor for out- 

 standing educational and organizational 

 work, 4-H club work, and other phases 

 of the extension service program. 



Receive Awards 



MRS. ENA K. CHESNEY and Mrs. 

 Helen Volk, Illinois home advisers, 

 were honored for their outstanding 

 service in home economics extension 

 work at the meeting of the National 

 Home Demonstration Agents Associa- 

 tion in Chicago recently. 



Mrs. Chesney has been adviser in 

 Stephenson county for 15 years and 

 Mrs. Volk has worked in Lake county 

 for 15 years. Both received their B.S. 

 degrees in home economics from the 

 University of Illinois. 



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