First Kalamazoo Celery Car Shipped This Season
Kalamazoo July 13 The first straight inload of Kalamazoo celery for shipment this season moved last Saturday. The car, shipped by the Kalamazoo Celery Growers Association to a receiver in Pittsburgh, Pa, carried exceptionally fine quality. Bunches weighed up to eight pounds per dozen stalks, with typical bunches five to six pounds. In 1922 the Kalamazoo Celery Growers Association shipped about 55 ears through its warehouse.
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Kalamazoo
Mier
Kalamazoo Celery G.wers’ Association
Pittsburgh
Kalamazdo Celery Growers Association
Saginaw Firm to Close After Receivership
The M. Piowaty and Sons Produce Company, under receiver for a year, will close around July 15 at 219 North Franklin Street Saginaw Michigan. Manager Nathan H Wonderlie plans to reorganize the local staff and continue in produce at a new location. Nearby notes report berries in St Joseph county and peach crops rising in Indiana with early fruit ripe soon.
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Saginaw
Mich
M. Piowaty & Sons Produce Company
Nathan H. Wonderlie
Franklin Street
Genesee Avenue Bridge
Water Street
Wonderlie
Indiana Farm and Crop News
South Bend
Ind
St. Joseph County
Evansville
Refrigeration charges on apples ruled unreasonable by ICC
The Interstate Commerce Commission found refrigeration charges of 40 dollars per car for apples shipped from Ashwood and Chapin New York to Minneapolis unjust and unreasonable in the Palmer Company case. The ruling noted tariffs increased Chicago to Minneapolis charges and cited Rule 240, section A, about ice and extra costs, with the commission discussing cost-of-ice basis and shipper instructions not to re-ice.
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Washington, D. C
Ashwood
Chapin
N. Y
Minneapolis
New York Central
Chicago
St. Paul
Omaha
Fairbanks
Mariner
Shipping refrigeration charges dispute leads to reparations
Court finds the rule unreasonable and that refrigeration charges exceeded a fair 20 percent of $48 per car for Ashwood and Chapin, N. Y. to Minneapolis. It notes the complainant paid the charges and was damaged, awarding $91.20 plus interest.
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Ashwood
Chapin
N. Y
Minneapolis
Minn
New Melon Variety John Brown Debuts at Epworth
William H. Creek, Epworth NL, reports a late melon crop on about 250 acres dominated by the Tom Watson variety. A new John Brown melon is described as very popular, with harvest expected around August 10 and a request for a one year subscription to The Packer.
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Epworth
Packer
Tom Watson
John Brown
William H. Creek
Bean Growing Contest Draws 26 Farm Boys at Charlotte
Twenty six farm youths in Isa county engage in a keen contest to maximize bean and hay production per acre. Winners will receive prizes announced at a December gravish event in Michigan, with participants from the surrounding communities competing for top per acre yields.
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Charlotte
Mich
Isa County
Michigan
Nity
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Ogden Bidg
Illinois
the Packer
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Kalamazoo Celery
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Saginaw House of
Piowaty & Sons
Martin- Woods
John W. Low
D. C.mittelstadt
Headley Fruit and Produce
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Goin ' Exchange
National Prades Remk
S. G. Palmer Company
York State
Wm. L. Wagner
Wagner-Bills . CO
Fruit Marketing Agents
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California
Henry J. Lyons
Sequoia Hotel
Fresno
Daniel J. Coyne
Mark P. Jacobsen CO
Creas AN Sher
G.M.H. Wagner & Sons
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Kaw Valley
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National Produce Bank
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