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Newspaper
Chicago Packer
Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1938
Page
2
Chicago market notices recount visits by distributors and executives from the West Coast to the South Water Market. Included are personal milestones such as births and a funeral, with multiple executives from Florida, California, and New York passing through or on vacation.
In Park River on March 3 the North Dakota Potato Growers Association will hold its annual meeting alongside the state potato show March 1 to 4. Four directors will be elected for two-year terms. William Garfitt of the Standard Fruit & Steamship Company is among those returning from the east and Chicago. Ed Seifert of Hulme Seifert visited from Salinas California for the show preparations. Sam Stockfish of Rosenthal & Stockfish Inc returned from Florida after a three week vacation.
East Lansing Feb 11 City families seek urban security in old age by investing in farms in southern Michigan County agents report farms 40 to 200 acres have changed hands in Berrien County last year Demand splits into three groups investors would be landowners who live and work city jobs in the country and hobby farmers James Campbell Genesee County agent says executives of automobile firms own farms as hobbies City residents contact extension agents for farming guidance near Grand Rapids city folks seek fruit dairy poultry truck crops in nearby farms
Charles D. Tate of Farmers Fruit Market Sandoval Ill was in Minneapolis and St Paul early this week. He now devotes much of his time to the oil boom in southern Illinois. Palmer Mendelson of San Francisco was a Twin City visitor late last week. Gordon Smith of C H Robinson Company returned late last week from a two weeks business trip.
Owosso Michigan February 11 C E Norton a local poultryman and former Detroit architect has devised a quick low cost fence tightener for dairy and poultry fences. He uses a five foot section of three inch cast iron pipe fitted into steel eyes in concrete end posts and twisted with a wrench to tighten the wire a steel pin locks the pipe to prevent loosening Norton has no patent and invites other farmers to use it.
The Michigan State Horticultural Society schedules a Feb 24 25 convention in South Haven Michigan focused on fruit production marketing and disease control. Sessions cover strawberry raspberry peach tree fruit and packing topics led by MSU extension staff growers and professionals with a future summer meeting planned.
Grand Rapids Mich February onion prices jump to U S No 1 large yellow globes 1 50 to 1 60 per 50 pound sack with moderate shipments 10 to 20 cars daily. State stock remains healthy as weather favors storage while potato demand slips and prices ease slightly from prior week.
The second annual National Farm Institute sponsored by the Des Moines Chamber of Commerce will be held February 18 19 at the Hotel Fort Des Moines Des Moines Iowa endorsed by the Iowa Fruit Growers Association invites fruit growers to attend The forum aims to discuss agriculture affairs in a non partisan setting with focus on foreign trade and farm exports imports leaders in government agriculture business education will present groundwork for the 1938 topic
Grand Rapids Michigan February 11 Many Michigan farmers especially potato land owners plan to switch to sugar beets this year as sugar manufacturers seek beet acreage Farmers sign contracts in large numbers Field rep W Oviatt AAA sugar section aided the drive indicating a beet price around eight dollars a ton next fall about one dollar eighty cents of that sum comes from a federal payment under the Jones Adams sugar quota law
J A Hannah longtime Michigan State College official and former International Baby Chick Association president announces engagement to Miss Sarah Shaw daughter of Dr Robert S Shaw president of Michigan The couple’s announcement follows Hannah’s roles as managing director of the hatchery Industry code authority and secretary of the state Board of Agriculture while based in Michigan and Kansas City.
In Yakima Washington on February 11 buyers report weaker potato prices as the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation ends feed relief purchases. No. 1 potatoes bring about 8 to 10 dollars per ton with bids rejected as too high, while No. 2s fetch around 4 to 8 dollars per ton amid ongoing market softness. onions mostly medium sized sell 70 to 80 cents per 50 pound bag with some larger onions at 1 dollar per bag.
East Lansing in February 11 meeting John B. Wilson Jr. assistant director of the North Central Region of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration told Michigan farmers the federal government would not impose production quotas unless prices fall unreasonably low or carryovers threaten prices. A quota plan would be submitted to a referendum of producers and only if a majority vote in favor would restrictions be used.
The Oceana county agricultural committee recommended to the state Board of Agriculture that Lyle Thompkins of Lansing be appointed county agricultural agent to succeed James Tharr who resigned. Thompkins formerly worked on Russell L Evarts fruit farm near Lapeer. Tharr, son of Ferdinand Tharr of Riverside, Michigan's strawberry king, resigned to start his own strawberry business after purchasing a farm in Berrien county. His father harvested 19 000 cases of strawberries last year. While in high school Tharr developed an irrigation system for his father's plantation. He has harvested near normal crops since. Maple Sugar Operations Officials in Indianapolis note a likely good sap run this year with thaw around mid month as maple groves enter the season. Furnaces are being prepared and a fine flow is expected due to a mild winter. Frank C Turrell Dead Frank C Turrell 57, secretary of the Artificial Ice and Cold Storage Company until his retirement about three years ago, died this week after a two year illness. He was born in Somerset Michigan and moved to Indianapolis at age 21. He is survived by his widow and a daughter, both of Indianapolis.
Wenatchee and Yakima apple handlers agreed at a Spokane meeting to exchange sales information to lift declining prices and move more than half the 1937 crop from cold storage. Ivan Plette and Bert Baker lead the plan, with daily 10 a.m. data exchanges and reports available to subscribing industry financiers.
Boise exhibition wins first prize of silver cup from the Idaho State Horticultural Society for the best commercial display at its annual meeting January 26 to 28 at Hotel Boise. Daily guessing contests in the lobby offered apples and 1 billa to correct guessers, with Basket Sales Company and Reilly Atkinson & Co organizing the event. Apples were provided to four Boise hotels so guests received an apple daily during the convention.
Grand Rapids Michigan announces Miss Annabelle Jones an 18 year old freshman home economics student at Michigan State College will represent Michigan in the national cherry pie baking contest February 22 in Chicago. Dan Gerber Fremont chairman of the National Cherry Weeks committee announced the selection after a committee sampled pies baked by candidates. Miss Jones will compete for the honor of baking and delivering a cherry pie to the White House in Washington.
The Pocatello dispatch notes an error in a telegraphic transmission about the government potato order. The printed figure stated 3,000,000 bushels may be diverted under the edible flour and starch program, but the correct figure is 300,000 bushels.
Detroit totals for January show carloads of produce at 1,9? compared with 2,017 cars last January and 1,666 cars in January 1930, indicating a year over year change in shipments of fruits and vegetables.
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