Good Prospect for Fruit at Lewiston
March 12 Lewiston Idaho reports favorable conditions for spraying orchards with dor ment oil or lime sulphur to control San Jose scale. Fruit buds are well developed and a warm spell could bring bloom with frost risk. Co operative cherry growers expect to handle district crop collectively. Planting focuses on sweet cherries cling peaches with some apricots prunes and pears.
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Lewiston
Idaho
San Jose
Lewiston Orchards
Utah Fruit Association urges apple focus on Rome Beauty Jonathan Delicious
Salt Lake City March 12. The orchard committee of the Utah State Fruit and Vegetable Association asks officers to persuade growers to devote major effort to Rome Beauty Jonathan and Delicious apples. It claims Utah lands yield better quality of these varieties than others.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Utah State Fruit and Vegetable Association
Rome
Jonathan
Weston Named New Agricultural Agent For Missouri Pacific
J W Weston potato specialist from Michigan State College resigns to take an agricultural agent post with the Missouri Pacific Railroad based in Monroe Louisiana. Weston helped Michigan growers standardize potato varieties and promoted early potatoes, Russet Rural seed and table stock. Colon M McCrary of Alpena is named to succeed him at Michigan State College assisted by Henry Moore in the farm crops department.
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East Lansing
Mich
J. W. Weston
Michigan State College
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Monroe
Louisiana
Weston
Michigan
Colon M. McCrary
Alpena
Henry Moore
Farm Crops
College Employes Denied Seed Certification in Michigan
Farmers in Northern Michigan oppose the Michigan State College decision to bar college employees from receiving crop inspection and seed certification services. Fr. Jenkins of Kalkaska says local producers want more college men in certified seed potato and crop production to learn from practical on farm methods, noting the extension department’s order excludes its specialists from crop inspection.
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Kalkaska
Mich
Michigan
Michigan State College
Farm
Jenkins
Extension Department
College
Demand for Seed Potatoes Opening Up
Strong inquiry for potato seed is developing from states to the South and East of Michigan with brisk sales. Prices range from 3.20 to 3.35 a bushel for late varieties and about 3.50 for Irish Cobblers as farmers anticipate spring planting and a rising seed potato market after frost ends.
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Grand Rapide
Mich
Michigan
Market Report Indicates Lower Offerings in Indianapolis
Colder weather trimmed activity at the Indianapolis fruit and vegetable market. Cabbage slipped to $60 a ton for old and $85 a ton for new. asparagus appeared barely enough to establish a market. Onion sets strong, lettuce mixed, potatoes steady, and apples, citrus, and berries showing varied shifts through the week.
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Indianapolis
California
Texas
Michigan
Tennessee
Nancy Halls
Mondey
Florida
Maple Syrup Output Sold After Michigan Meeting
The Michigan Maple Syrup Manufacturers Association disposed of its entire yearly output after its annual meeting in Charlotte Michigan. A single distributor in a nearby city is reported to have contracted the full production though the price per gallon was not disclosed. New officers elected include President D B Hodges Clinton county Vice President Joseph Lane Walton and Secretary Treasurer D G Cronk Bellevue. Directors named were C A Willis Bellevue Blake Cole Walton Gale Kelley Bellevue Cortez Cushing Carmel and Howard Tirril Carmel.
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Charlotte
Mich
Michigan Maple Syrup Manufacturers’ Association
D. B. Hodges
Clinton County
Joseph Lane
Walton
D. G. Cronk
Bellevue
C. A. Willis
Blake Cole
Gale Kelley
Cortez Cushing
Carmel
Howard Tirril
Apple market shows steady prices amid varied stock
Activity in apples continues with prices held unchanged. Dealers report one or more varieties in stock, keeping the market lively with multiple options for buyers.
No Panacea for Farmers Ills Says Grange Master
Louis T. Tabor of Columbus told 1000 farmers at the fifth annual Ionia County Farmers Day that politicians use farmers to boost themselves. He warned against Socialistic aid to agriculture and called the Dickinson bill a possible foundation for a constructive movement, saying farmers must seek legislation themselves, not let others do it.
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Nats
Grange
Ionia, Mich
Louis T. Tabor
Columbus
National Grange
Ionia County
Tabor
Dickinson
Congress
George
Potatoes in Michigan Market Split Guidance Warned
Michigan state officials Verne H. Church and L. Whitney Watkins say market conditions for potatoes are hard to predict. They note 6.9 million bushels of merchantable stock, high prices may push farm stocks to market, seed use shifts and consumption drops, with early plantings in the south not increasing as expected.
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Fending
Mich
Verne H. Church
State Agricultural Statistician
L. Whitney Watkins
Church
Michigan
Agri Assistant Dunlap to Speak at Michigan Canners Meet
Renick W. Dunlap assistant secretary of agriculture at Washington will address the Michigan Canners Association spring convention at East Lansing on April 18 and 19. Hutchingon of Fennville says Dunlap, former Ohio state food commissioner, is an authority on canned foods and canning crops.
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Seoy
Agri
Fennville
Mich
Renick W. Dunlap
Washington
Michigan Canners' Association
East Lansing
Mark CG. Hutchingon
Dunlap
Ohio
Orchard Pruning Demonstration In Zeeland Michigan
Orchard pruning demonstration led by County Agricultural Agent C P Milham of Grand Haven used the modified leader method. It was the third county event with strong farmer turnout and rising interest in orcharding. In St George Utah magnolia fig trees from Texas arrive for farmer distribution, as green tomato cultivation is added to the focus.
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Zeeland
Mich
C. P. Milham
Grand Haven
St. George
Utah
Texas
Larger Peach Crop Expected in East Mill Creek District
The East Mill Creek district harvest is forecast to exceed normal due to a mild winter of 1925 26. Typical production for the area runs about 40 cars. Last year, frosts reduced the crop significantly.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
East Mill Creek
Mosquito Fleet to Carry Perishable Products
Western Michigan fruit belt develops a mosquito fleet of motor boats and small tugs operating from Benton Harbor and St. Joseph. Last summer about 25 vessels hauled 100 to red cases of fruit daily to Chicago and Wisconsin ports. The system moved fruit to markets inaccessible to steamers and may double in 1926 and operate from other ports.
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Benton Herbor
Mich
Michigan
Benton Harbor
Chicago
Wisconsin
Lake Michigan
Porta
St. Joseph
Free Market Blossoms In St Joseph And Benton Harbor
St Joseph plans a municipal free market on Main street fronting property for growers commission men and truckers. Benton Harbor will run another free market nearby with 30 acres rail and water transport facilities serving the same purpose and buyers.
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St. Joseph
Mich
Elity of
Benton Harbor
American Fruit Growers Inc qualifies to do business in Indiana
The American Fruit Growers Inc a Louisiana corporation is authorized to issue 10000 in capital stock and will engage in producing handling and dealing in products of the soil with W R Wedrick as agent. Wing Evans Inc another foreign firm will run a general commission business with Robert W McBride as Indiana agent and 4200 capital in Indiana referenced.
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Indianapolis
Ind
American Fruit Growers Inc
Tlnois
Indiana
W. R. Wedrick
Silver Lake
Wing & Evans Inc
General Commission
Robert W., McBride
Capaital
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C. H. Weaver & CO
South Water Market
F.E. Baldwin & CO
Thos. C. Osborne
Hall, Wedge & Carter
Nat'l Bank of Commeros
Jonathans
Romes
Coyne Bros
Chicago, Ill
Ware & Low—Mangan
Wayne & Low
Mangan Oo
P. W. Coppersmith & Co
John L. Coppersmith
Michigan State
Springfield, Sinois
Mosquito
Giorgi Brothers CO
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Wewani Fruits & Voretables A
Berkowitz Commission
Champaign
Illinois
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