Word: fruitful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pleased with themselves last week were officials of two Florida fruit cooperatives. Theirs was the distinction of receiving from the Federal Farm Board the first allotment from its $150,000,000 loan fund. To Florida United Growers and Florida Citrus Growers Exchange the Board advanced...
This loan was obtained to equip Florida fruit shipping warehouses with apparatus for destroying the Mediterranean fruit fly on outgoing produce. By this method fruit is first heated above 100°, then suddenly cooled to just above freezing where it is held long enough to insure the demise of Halterophera Capitata larvae...
Floridians last week insisted that the extermination of this pest was virtually complete, that Secretary of Agriculture Hyde should consider relaxing the federal quarantine. They accused their citrus-competitor, California, of exaggerating the fruit fly's destruction in Florida, of spreading false stories of fruit trees cut down, orchards obliterated...
Last week another giant of farm co-operation strode on the U. S. scene. Incorporated at $50,000,000 as the United Growers of America, this new co-operative purposed to bring together into one large selling agency fruit and vegetable growers throughout the land, exclusive of California. It will maintain cold storage warehouses, special transportation equipment, practice "big business" sales methods. Sixty fruit and truck co-operatives in 25 states have already pledged themselves to market through it. Its board chairman: Julius Howland Barnes, onetime president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, one-time president...
City dwellers with beery intent slip into shadowy doorways, knock or ring cabalistically, whisper passwords through peepholes, gratings, chained portals. Dry-voting country dwellers blithely bear in the grape and the apple, press the ripe fruit, catch the juice, hoard it away. When winter comes they have a convivial cup. Long and loudly have urbanites protested this disparity of Prohibition. Last week city men envied country men when Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran issued to his agents this edict: "The National Prohibition act authorizes . . . unrestricted manufacture of non-intoxicating cider and fruit juice in the home. . . . Conditions: . . . 1) it shall...