Plan to Plow Up One Third of Lettuce Crop in California
Imperial Valley reporters trace a plan to reduce spring lettuce acreage in Phoenix and Yuma districts by one third. Western Growers Protective Association, Arizona standardization service, and major shippers push for owner billed sales to set aside ~6,318 acres to be plowed March 1 to 8. Result desired is stabilized supply and fair market returns with 95 percent acreage consent.
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el Centro
Calif
California
Arizona
Phoenix
Yuma
C.B. Moore
Western Growers Protective Association
Jack Foote
Arizona Standardization Service
Balt River
Yume
Edwin F Miller of New York dies of heart attack
Edwin F Miller general eastern sales manager of the National Fruit and Vegetable Exchange died after a heart attack in his Lincoln hotel room in New York. He had just returned from a southern trip and was 54. Funeral held in Minneapolis with burial at Crystal Lake cemetery. He had a long career in produce firms including C H Robinson Kroker Baking Wesco Foods and the National Fruit Exchange.
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New York
Edwin F. Miller
National Fruit and Vegetable Exchange
Lincoln Hotel
Crystal Lake Cemetery
Miller
Minneapolis
C. H. Robinson & Co
Kroker Baking Company
Wesco Foods Company
Weslaco
Tex
Rio Grande Valley
The
Exchange
General Eastern
United States
Carfiel and Jackson Partnership Dissolved in 1936
Los Angeles, Feb. 7. The Carfiel and Jackson firm, a two man partnership formed in 1984 by Ted Carfiel and G B Jackson, has dissolved by mutual consent effective February 1, 1936. Jackson will continue western deals, while Carfiel focuses on the Louisiana berry deal and other past operations.
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Los Angeles
Carfiel& Jackson
Ted Carfiel
G. B. Jackson
Jackson
Carfiel
First Meeting of New Pittsburgh Trade Organization
Pittsburgh Feb 7 The Produce Dealers Association formed to unite carrot receivers jobbers and brokers in the Tri State area held its first open meeting and dinner at Union Grill last Sunday. An executive committee of ten and a temporary office were elected with A Mantia president and M Kieban vice president among others. A tentative program approved.
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Pittsburgh
Produce | Dealers Association
Tri-State
Union Grills
A. Mantia
A. M. Mantia Company
M. Kieban
Kleban Brothers
D. Feigenbaum
M. Feigenbaum &* Sons
George Lafbury
George Lasbury Company
Charles Carcione
South Texas Crops Threatened by Cold Weather
Feb 1 report shows temperatures below freezing in South Texas vegetable regions, but above danger levels in key areas. Potatoes tomatoes and beans lie just above ground, a freeze could have caused major damage yet current delays and slow growth impair harvest timing. Bermuda onions avoid damage but movement is delayed by about one to two weeks due to slow growth and cold spells.
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Texas
Bermuda
Crispo and Sons Enter Reorganization Process
New York February seven details emerge that Crispo and Sons Inc plans to reorganize with plans to be announced next week. Purchases for resale have been made under Savoy Produce Company a Crispo subsidiary. Western carrot shippers cooperation is expected to underpin the restructuring, per the firm and its attorney Leopold Blum.
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New York
Leopold Blumberg
Broadway
Packer
Crispo & Sons, Inc
Savoy Produce Company
Crispo & Sons
Western Carrot
Hammond Berry Fields Are in Good Conditions
Hammond Louisiana February 7 Condition of the strawberry fields here is good for this time of year. Plants have been held back by cold and rain but are now just ready to start five days of warm weather. Scraping and pine needle mulch will be applied. plants show strong root systems with no blossoms yet. Acreage estimated at 18 000 to 20 000 acres. No other crops harmed by recent cold waves except pepper plants lost in hotbeds.
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Hammond
Daat
Florida citrus marketing pact discussed by governor
A Florida group representing citrus interests met Governor Shultz to consider a marketing agreement to regulate the volume of fruit leaving the state while not restricting shipments to auction markets. The plan would place administrative authority with the State Citrus Commission and set grade and size rules. A Lakeland meeting was scheduled later in the week for final approval before submission to authorities.
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Tallahasse
Fla
Shultz
Florida
United States Department of Agriculture
State Citrus Commission
Lakeland
Sec
Secretary revokes Burke Riddick license in Memphis
Washington February 7 The Secretary of Agriculture revoked Burke Riddick Memphis Tenn broker license under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act effective January 18 1936 following a Department of Agriculture press release. H A Spilman charged failure to account for shipments and misuse of funds alleged as flagrant violations. Victim firms named in the complaint were listed in the Department record.
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Washington, D. C
Burke Riddick
Memphis
A. Spilman
Trade to Benefit Only Slightly From the New Treaty
New York Feb. 7 The trade pact with Honduras takes effect March 25 under proclamations by President Roosevelt and Honduran leaders. It mostly cuts duties on non perishables while bananas, Honduran exports 95 percent to the U.S., remain on the free list. Pineapple duties fall to 35 cents per crate from 60 cents, boosting lighter tonnage for pineapples.
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Honduras
New York
Roosevelt
Business program for storage convention in Atlantic City
The 45th annual convention of the Association of Refrigerated Warehouses and its parent American Warehousemen's Association will open February 12 at the Hotel Traymore in Atlantic City New Jersey. The first business session is February 13 at 9 30 am with reports from officers and committees and roll call entries in the Strathmore room.
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Chicago
Association of Refrigerated Warehouses
The
American Warehousemen’s Association
Atlantic City
N. J
Traymore
Association of Refrigerated
Strathosphere
Harry
Hall
Detroit
W. M. O’keefe
G. F. Nieman
Pittsburgh
J. E. Salisbury
Cleveland
L. B. von Weise
New York City
R.H
Potato Control and Other Laws Repealed
Washington D C February Senate completed repeal of three AAA auxiliary acts the Warren Potato Control law the Bankhead Cotton Act and the Smith Kerr tobacco measure by accepting a House amendment to the repeal measure passed earlier by the House. President Roosevelt had urged repeal and the move follows the Supreme Court ruling against the Agricultural Adjustment Act. Administration seeks substitute agricultural legislation as two or three bills are reviewed.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
House
Roosevelt
Congress
Supreme Court
No Damage to Georgia Peaches in Dormant Orchards
Macon Ga February 7 due to continued cold weather Georgia peach orchards have been completely dormant for about two months and suffered little damage to buds. W C Bewley general manager of the Georgia Peach Growers Exchange says prospects point to a good crop as trees are in best possible condition to withstand severe cold. He notes that extended warm weather beforehand could have caused heavy damage.
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Georgia
Macon
W. C. Bewley
Georgia Peach Growers Exchange
Bewley
Badly damaged prospective peach crop in Illinois
Chicago reports from The Packer indicate severe cold since January 22 has severely damaged Illinois peaches. Centralia area saw temperatures 12 to 18 degrees below zero with many buds killed, while southern Illinois also suffered, eight to ten degrees below zero, though some live buds and trees remain. Full extent uncertain. apples likely affected. continuation noted on page 17.
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Chicago
Illinois
Packer
Centralia
Produce Packer Weekly Trade News Preview
The Produce Packer offers market and trade news for shippers and distributors of eggs poultry butter hides wool fur and related commodities. A free sample copy can be mailed upon request.
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Packer
Cabbage and Tomato Plant Crop Delayed in Mississippi
Crystal Springs Mississippi February seven a general survey of Copiah Hind county vegetable crops shows late acreage with forecasted reductions due to continued cold weather through January. Growers planned a 25 percent seed bed increase but snow sleet and rain left fields unworkable and open ground plants killed.
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Crystal Springs
Miss
Copiah-Hinds
Too Cold to Move Red River Valley Seed Potatoes
Extreme winter drives record lows across the Red River Valley leaving seed potato shipments stalled. Temperatures from 30 to 35 degrees below zero freeze roads and pits, with little stock movement and growing concern over potential 40 percent shrinkage if a freeze damages on hand stock.
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Red River Valley
Minneapolis
Fehb
Twin City
Weather Bureau
Moorhead
Grand Forks
Bomb Explosion Hits Cleveland Food Terminal
A dynamite bomb exploded in the rear of the Northern Ohio Food Terminal early Friday morning in Cleveland. The blast blew out rear doors and shattered hundreds of windows at the terminal and Nickel Plate Railroad freight office. Police have no clear cause or culprit.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Thomas M Rini
Nickel Plate Railroad
Northwest Apple Stocks Improve In February Storage Report
Wenatchee Washington February 7 February 1 apple storage report shows 5738 cars on hand down from 7276 on January 1 a 25 percent drop Delicious holdings rise modestly on ad campaign year ago holdings 4950 cars 16 percent lower Winesap stocks smaller than last year and Delicious only slightly larger The report is seen as favorable and better than expected January movement was 1300 cars out.
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Wenatchee
Wash
Apple Storage
Delicious Holdings
Wine- Sap
Delicious
Central Florida Cold Snap Leaves Mixed Crop Damage
Florida farmers report variable losses from last week’s cold spell. While lower east coast and Lake Okeechobee areas saw little damage and expect continued shipments of beans, central regions suffered heavy blows to strawberries peppers cucumbers and beans. Potatoes suffered major losses in Hastings and surrounding zones, with some delay likely in maturity as temperatures rise and normal weather resumes.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Florida
Lower East Coast
South Dade County
Lake Okeechobee
Plant City
Zolfo Springs
Sanford
Sarasota
Bradenton
Arcadia
Wauchula
Hastings
Federal Point
Bunnell
Bought Nursery Trees or Promised Trees, Which?
Burt, N. reports fruit growers paid for trees from a man claiming to be a nurseryman. Trees were to ship fall 1935 but none arrived. A buyer named G. G. Kramp paid $13 for 100 peach trees, shipped about November 16, never received. Towell's offices and addresses are disputed. letters unclaimed.
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Burt
G. G. Kramp
P. H. Towell
Mr. Kramp
Alabama
Painesville
Chamber of Commerce
Ohio
Nursery Tales.Co
Erie
Chain store buying issue hits Congress with bills moving
Washington February 7 hearings on Utterback HR 10486 and Senate Robinson S 3154 push the chain store buying debate. The National League of Wholesale Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Distributors endorses the Patman framework, urging brokers to seek compensation from the buyer principal. The Robinson-Patman path gains Senate calendar attention as advocates push to end brokerage collection from shippers by buying brokers.
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Washington,d. C
Utterback
Judiciary Committee
House
Senate Judiciary Committee
Congress
Senate
Patman
House Judiciary Committee
Hubert Utterback
Town
John E. Miller
Arkansas
U. S. Guyer
Kansas
Senate Committee
National League of Wholesale Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Distributors
Marketing Agency for Citrus Fruit Proposed in Texas
Mission Tex Feb 7 The Texas Citrus Fruit Growers Exchange reports progress toward a centralized marketing agency for Rio Grande valley fruit. Co operative associations have held three meetings to plan a single sales body inviting independent shippers to join. Several valley groups and independent shippers back the plan though current season sales will not change. aim is to be ready for next fall.
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Mission
Tex
T. M. Melden
Texas Citrus Fruit Growers Exchange
Rio Grande Valley
Pers
Rio Grande Valley Citrus Exchange
Mission and Alamo
Englemen Gardens Association
Planting Potatoes Underway in Baldwin County Alabama
Loxley Ala Feb 7 Potato planting in Baldwin county commenced last week. Ground is in ideal conditions for planting. Indications show Baldwin county will plant 140 cars of seed potatoes this season, a slight increase over last season, estimated by A I Corte.
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Loxley
Ala
Baldwin County
A I. Corte
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National Fruit, and
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Carfiel & Jackson Partnership
NEW
Pittsburgh Trade Organization
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Teade Ares
Florida Citrus Marketing Pact
Bholts Calla
Citrus Fruit
H. A. Spilman
Department of Agriculture
Association of Refrigerated ‘Warehouses
Mississippi
Crystal Springs-Haziehurst
North
Northwest
Lake Okeechobee Area
Robinson
National League
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