Special Express Apple Rate Announced by Canadian National Express
Winnipeg Nov 2 Fred C Saiter manager foreign department Canadian National Express announced a special Christmas rate on apples shipped to the old country. The charge is 3 dollars per box of apples measuring one cubic foot eight inches and weighing 50 pounds. The company aims to advertise Canadian fruit in Great Britain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Special Express
Winnipeg
Canada
Fred C. Saiter
Foreign Department
Canadian National Express
Great Britain
Savanna Fruit and Produce Co opens under manager Ray Lahre
On November 2 the Savanna Fruit and Produce Company opens for business as a branch of the Freeport Fruit and Produce Company with Ray Lahre named as manager.
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Pirm
Savanna
Ray, Lahre
Freeport Brust and
Eposduce
Brisk Week for Indianapolis Market Amid Fruit Rush
Indianapolis market shows brisk activity with average fruit and produce receipts. Traders expect rising shipments of oranges lemons and grapefruit while apples remain abundant. Delicious apples from the West fetch high prices.
Unusual Winter Banana Apple Tree Survives Frost
An unusual Winter Banana apple tree in Mich. remains bearing fruit after a frost killed blossoms. The tree, found in Jay Bank ford, had ripe fruit and blossoms until recently, when frost spared the remaining fruit despite destroyed blooms.
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Freesoll
Mich
Jay Bankford
Farmers Boost Sandland Potatoes Before Bad Weather Sets In
In Princeton Minnesota the Sandland district, oldest in the state, shows active trading as farmers rush to ship before storms. Prices hover 47 to 60 cents per hundredweight with top fancy seed potatoes reaching higher, and most warehouses using screens from 1 5/8 to 2 inches.
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Princeton, Minn
Potato Deal Controversy In Red River Valley Letter
Moorhead Minnesota November 2 Early in the potato season a North Dakota banker urged a dealer to buy potatoes at a point The dealer replied with a margin note claiming no operator has profited from the Red River deal for three years They challenged the banker to invest a few thousand dollars to prove the point The letter has not been answered.
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Moorhead
Minn
Red River Valley
North Dakota
Aentleman
Red River
Duty removal for Canadian seed potatoes urged
Winnipeg reports Progressive member T. W. Caldwell of Carlton Victoria New Brunswick pressed Ottawa to negotiate with the United States to lift the duty on Canadian seed potatoes. Caldwell notes a strong Southern market for the seed potatoes and mentions American growers desire tariff removal.
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Winnipeg
T. W. Caldwell
Progressive
Carlton Victoria
New Brunswick
Rt. Hon
Fielding
Ottawa
Canada
United States
Caldwell
Utah Agricultural Council formed to aid farmers
Salt Lake City November report notes P V Cardon named managing director of the Utah Agricultural Council to prepare data for crop rotation and market balance. Ephraim Bergeson urges diversified production while data show Utah potato oversupply risk and demand for carrot shipments. Apple truck promotion travels state, apple prices and local cabbage at low rates, connecting to market and storage issues. Crockett notes Cache Valley apples lack buyers and growers may rot fruit absent better freight and market access.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
P. V. Cardon
Utah Farmer
New
Utah Agricultural Council
Ephraim Bergeson
Utah Farm Bureau
Bergeson
Council
Valie
David F. Smith
the Growers Exchange
Salt Lake
Mr. Smith
U.S
State plans potato inspectors in key Michigan markets
Lansing on November 2 reports the Michigan Department of Agriculture will station potato inspectors in Greenville Cadillac Gaylord Detroit with possible addition in Grand Rapids to work with federal market reporters. Inspectors will prevent ungraded potatoes from leaving the state while cooperating with federal staff in all markets. The Michigan Horticultural Show will be held February 4 to 8 in East Lansing with fruit displays at the armory. W J Wilkingon of Detroit leads the show and P A Kremen of Fennville chairs fruit exhibitions. The event is run by Michigan Agricultural College students.
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Grand Rapids,Mich
State
Department .of ‘Agriculture
Lansing
Mich
State Department of Agriculture
Greenville
Cadillac
Gaylord
Detroit
Grand Rapids
Michigan Horticultural Show
East Lansing
W. J. Wilkingon
P. A. Kremen
Fennville
Michigan Agricultural College
Manitoba potato crop falls below normal by two million
Winnipeg reports final Manitoba potato crop estimate shows about 2,000,000 bushels less than the five year average of 5,000,000. Acreage runs 38,000 but yield per acre is near 120 bushels, down from 135. With 29,000 acres the total is under 3.56 million bushels, last year drought produced 24,000 acres at 94. To plant a normal acreage next spring will require about 600,000 bushels.
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Manitoba
Winnipeg
United States
George Batho
Department of Agriculture
Alberta
Ontario
Using Refrigerator Cars for Potatoes Grand Rapids Shippers Move Tubers
Potatoes are being shipped in refrigerator cars or with box cars lined for speed as growers hold back part of the crop. The move is rising, but off grade potatoes are hard to export from the state. Inspectors patrol tuber regions. one shipper faced regrading or relabeling of five cars, choosing to regrade.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
U.S. No. 1
Onion market nerves rise as cold slows sale in Grand Rapids
With cold weather setting in, Grand Rapids onion growers grow anxious to sell their crop held for a rising market. Most want around three dollars a cwt while buyers aim for about two dollars and fifty cents, creating a cautious trading mood.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
No. 2
Potato Shipments Will Be Hastened Says Railway Association
Minneapolis Nov 2 The American Railway Association in cooperation with the railroads is doing all in its power to forestall a shortage of refrigerator cars to handle the Minnesota potato crop this season. O P Jacobson chairman of the Minnesota Railroad and Warehouse commission reported a shortage on the Great Northern line with 600 cars on order but only 200 available. M J Gormley head of the Association said 19 683 more refrigerator cars were in the Northwest and Central Western states on September 1 1923 than last year and that heavy October shipments reduced cars but efforts were under way to speed them to destinations and return for loading. There are no surplus empty cars in the country not being moved to producing sections. Railroads are delivering first class performance despite overcrowded markets. Everything possible will be done to speed up movement to the Northwest of every available car.
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Princeton
Minn
Minnesota
Sandland
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Triumph
Twin
Railway Association
Minneapolis
American Railway Association
Gormley
Jacobson
Tonia County Apple Harvest Nears End in 1923
The 1923 apple harvest in Tonia county closes as Braman orchard near Muir finishes picking and packing. Luther Hall & Son in Oreleans township near Belding will finish next week with 3000 barrels shipped. St Johns cider mill bought ciders. B. F. Hart orchards near Belding shipped 40 carloads of Spies and Baldwins. The Baldwins are high quality. harvest ends early next week.
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Sonia
Mich
Tonia County
Braman
Muir
Brasman
Luther Hall & Son
Oreleans Township
Belding
St. Johns
B. F. Hart
Yoma County
Michigan
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Fruits and Vegetables
C.H. Weaver & CO
Chicago
Fruit-Produce Rating Agency
WALDE
England
Ogden Bidg
Randolph Street
R. W. Gudgeon
Mer
N. Clark St
Bureau
Hall, Wedger& Carter
W. So
Water St
Wholesale Grocers
Nat’l Bans of Commerce
John W, Low Pres, and
Treas
Mittelstadt
R. S. Hendley
Mgr
Wayne & Low
Ins
Fruit and Produce Commission
W. S. Water
Corn Exchange
Bank of Commerce
Indianapolis
MARKE
Gale
Grimes
Elbertas
Oregon
Indiana
Colorado Pras
Sindland
Carlot
R. A. Smith
Union Pacific
Omaha
Joseph J. Quinney, Jr
J. 0. White Company, Inc
Stote River
Apple Growers’ Association
Jonathans
Rome
Ogden Commission, Company
Ogden City Shippers
Packer
Texas
Oklahoma
Madson
Juab
Cache Valley
Crockett
Macdonald & Wills, Inc
Green Fruit
G.M.H. Wagner& Sons
W. So. Water St
Illinois
Ohio
Wisconsin
Write Produge Sales Co., Onliags
Corrina T
TOMA
Acme Paper Mills Inc
40Th and Packers
U. Yards
Chicago, Ill
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