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...citrus year ending last October, U. S. citizens consumed 163,029 carloads of oranges, lemons and grapefruit-39% more than the five-year average through 1929 and an all-time record. Two-thirds of the U. S. citrus crop is harvested in the California-Arizona area. Except for a smallish Texas production (largely grapefruit), Florida accounts for the rest.* And since three-fourths of the California-Arizona crop is marketed by California Fruit Growers Exchange, that famed co-operative is by far the largest factor in the U. S. citrus industry. Last week the 13,500 fruit-growing members were...
...local marketing associations started in Southern California in the 1890's. Today growers belong to packing associations which grade and pack their fruit at cost. The packing associations belong to district associations, which in turn elect the 25 directors who govern the big central Exchange. No fruit except citrus is handled...
...research laboratories, owns lumber mills (boxes), operates orange and lemon processing plants (oils and extracts), promotes the interests of the industry in general, California's in particular. It works constantly for reductions in freight rates, which, with refrigeration, represent about one-third of the wholesale value of California citrus. But most notable achievement has been to make orange juice at breakfast a national institution...
...expected in a treaty with an agricultural country. But Florida fruit growers, who have threatened to attack the reciprocal tariff law in the courts because of fruits and vegetables admitted under the recent trade treaty with Cuba, may now think twice since the new treaty betters their citrus fruit market in Canada...
...result of this work, the gardens have increased so that there are now 100 acres under cultivation. The storm stripped the citrus trees of their fruit and about 200 specimens, especially the older trees, were badly damaged. Most of the rest of the standing stock either lost its leaves or had its foliage neared and left brown...