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Since 1907 the Exchange has spent $21,600,000 advertising its brand name Sunkist. Last year its advertising budget included $1,450,000 for oranges, $581,000 for lemons, $34,600 for grapefruit. Average gross return to growers was about $2.30 per box. For advertising the Exchange assessed each grower 5? per box for oranges, 3? for grapefruit (Florida dominates that market), 10? for lemons, of which there is a perennial surplus. All other Exchange services cost 5.31? per box, and including those of district exchanges (less than 1? per box) total marketing and advertising charges amounted to about...
...Haas, who once was a fruit-grower himself, explained that somewhere in the earth below the apple a gold deposit must exist. He also explained that his indicator would do much more than locate an ore body. If, when suspended above an ore body, it swung back & forth 100 times, then the bottom of the ore body was 100 feet below the earth's surface. If it oscillated in a circle 20 times, then the ore contained one ounce of gold to the ton. Judging how far below the earth the top of an ore body might...
...retreating more and more deeply into a wilderness that seemed as homey as a village street. Mrs. Rawlings' second novel deals with the same region, but pictures along with the natives a queer group, composed of an English remittance man, a doctor and his son, a female orange grower, evidently intended to typify unhealthy sophistication. As in South Moon Under, the drawling natives, with their profound knowledge of the secret ways of the country, and their strange talk, filled with phrases like "right smart" and "hit's a pity," carry conviction. But Mrs. Rawlings' educated folk...
...Commented Secretary of Commerce Roper himself a cotton grower: ''How would we determine the amount of cotton a nation might have from us? Would we be governed by the average exports to that nation over a five-year period, or limit the amount to actual spindle requirements...
...jail because I just cannot control the actions of my queen bees." Last week the Senate relieved Apiarist Glass by voting queen bees out of the AAAmendments. "To the Garbage Can." His 10,000 acres of Virginia orchards make Senator Harry Flood Byrd the biggest apple-grower east of the Mississippi. As such he uprose last week to lead an attack on the proposal which would permit minimum price-fixing on certain foodstuffs. "As a producer of food," cried Pomologist Byrd. "I am firmly convinced that much more harm than good will result from the attempt to fix prices, those...