American Agriculturist,'August 30, 1924 
Federated Growers Meet 
With Apple Shippers 
M. c. burritt 
A GOOD representation of members 
and a number of interested visitors 
attended the mid-year meeting of the 
i federated Fruit and Vegetable Growers, 
| Inc., held at St. Louis, Mo., August 12-13, 
Ijjj connection with the twenty-ninth 
annual convention of the International 
Apple Shippers. Members representing 
Florida and Mississippi vegetables, Ala¬ 
bama and California citrus fruits, New 
Jersey, New York and Illinois apples 
and peaches, Michigan grapes, Tennessee 
strawberries, Texas and Indiana onions, 
Washington apples, New Jersey potatoes, 
all d other products and states, together 
with Federated officials and salesmen 
from nearby markets were present and 
all participated in the program and 
excellent round table discussions. The 
meeting, in addition to hearing the 
reports of Federated officers, also listened 
to President O. E. Bradfute, _ of the 
American Farm Bureau Federation, and 
Gray Silver, President of the new Grain 
Marketing Company, both members-at- 
large of the Federated directorate. 
General Manager Rule reported that 
the organization has handled in the first 
seven months of its second year more than 
120,000 cars of fruits and vegetables, 
which is a growth of 50% over last year, 
with corresponding increase in revenue 
[ and surplus—a very satisfactory showing. 
| Mr. Rule thinks the big problems ahead 
are increased volume especially from its 
| present membership and better retailing 
I methods in which he looks forward to 
the full cooperation of retailers them¬ 
selves. The Department of Field Organ¬ 
ization and Information has been fully 
established and some work with members 
I has already been done. Dr. App was re¬ 
cently appointed head of this department. 
Quality First 
Most of the discussions centered around 
improvement in the quality and grade of 
members’ products, although most of 
these are already recognized' as among 
the best in the market. The points of 
emphasis were better grades and stand¬ 
ards, the exclusion from the markets of 
under size, green or overripe or other¬ 
wise poor quality products and shipping 
point inspection as a means of maintain¬ 
ing high standard. Many illustrations 
were given of the disastrous effects of 
indiscriminate consignment of. quantities 
of low grade products by disorganized 
growers on the markets. Especially 
noteworthy examples of the folly of such 
action are the Georgia peach and water¬ 
melon deals, in which great quantities of 
smallsized, inferior fruit which never should 
have been shipped at all, were rushed to 
market early in the season demoralizing 
nearly all markets and causing heavy 
losses to shippers, carriers and handlers 
alike, and almost ruining the later market. 
Aggressive Action for Improvement 
Two resolutions looking toward aggres¬ 
sive leadership on the part of the Feder¬ 
ated to remedy these conditions were 
passed. The first called for the active 
cooperation of the U. S. Bureau of 
Markets in the Department of Agriculture 
in seeking to impress upon growers the 
importance of high grades and standards, 
and for the establishment of courses in 
grading and standardization by the State 
Colleges of Agriculture to help to train 
inspectors to more intelligently interpret 
these grades and standards. The second 
i urged growers to produce more of the best, 
1 to grade and standardize more thoroughly 
and, above all, not to send low grade, 
unstandardized products to market. 
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The SAFE Ration for Dairy Cows 
Teachers of Agriculture From 
Three States Meet at Farming- 
dale, Long Island 
r THE first conference of its kind was 
^ held at the State School of Agricul¬ 
ture at Farmingdale, Long Island, on 
August 15-22, when high school teachers 
°f agriculture in New York, New Jersey 
4nd Connecticut met for a week’s con¬ 
ference. It brought together some of the 
best thought in the country on vocational 
teaching, especially high school agricul¬ 
ture. 
The conference was arranged through 
the cooperation of the University of the 
State of New York, the New Jersey State 
Department of Public Instruction, and 
the Connecticut State Department of 
Education. The meeting was not solely 
for professional people, but superin¬ 
tendents of schools, principals, members 
of boards of education, and farmers were 
cordially invited to attend the con¬ 
ference. 
Director Knapp Welcomes Conference 
The meeting opened on Friday, August 
15, with an address of welcome by 
Director H. B. Knapp of the State School 
of Agriculture. Walter P. Hedden, of 
the Port of New York Authority, fol¬ 
lowed Director Knapp with a discussion 
of terminal market problems, who in 
turn was followed by R. W. Quackenbush, 
the agricultural agent of the New York 
Central Railroad, who spoke on the rail¬ 
road as a connecting link between pro¬ 
ducers and consumers. * 
On Friday afternoon, members attend¬ 
ing the conference visited New Aork 
City hi a body to study the markets of the 
Metropolis. They visited the Dairy¬ 
men’s League offices and plants, the hay 
market and freight yards, the milk 
station at 33rd St., wholesale butter and 
egg markets, and railroad produce piers, 
as well as the farmers’ markets of New 
York and Brooklyn. This market trip 
lasted all Friday afternoon and evening 
and Saturday morning. 
The conference was resumed on Mon¬ 
day morning with Director Knapp pre¬ 
siding. The speakers on that day were 
Dr. T. N. Carver, of Harvard University; 
H. D. Phillips, of the New York State 
Department of Farms and Markets; 
L. S. Tenney, of the United States De¬ 
partment of Agriculture; and E- R. 
Lupton, a farmer of Mattituck, Long 
Island, president of the Suffolk County 
Farm Bureau and president of the Board 
of Trustees of the State School of Agri¬ 
culture. Mr. Lupton spoke on the types 
of farming on Long Island, which was 
followed by a tour of Long Island farms. 
There were fifty-two cars in line on the 
tour. 
On Tuesday, Mr. Weaver, of the New 
York State Department of Education, 
presided. In the morning, the speakers 
were Dr. Carver; Dr. E. C. Nourse, of 
the American Institute of Economics, 
Washington, D. C.; and Frank A. Horne, 
president of the Merchants Refrigerating 
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