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Show SIGN MARKETING CONTRACT Michigan Fruit and Vegetable Growers Associations Have Made Formal Agreement. Final confirmation of the marketing contract between the Federated Fruit and Vegetable Growers and the newly new-ly organized Michigan Fruit Growers, Inc., has now been approved by the board of directors of the latter organization. organ-ization. The estimated tonnage provided pro-vided for in the arrangement Is figured at a total of about 4,000 cars for the first year, adding the tonnage of apples, peaches and other tree fruits to the grapes already handled by the Federated Growers out of Michigan. Mich-igan. The development of the Michigan organization enables the product of organized growers to be better stand-arized stand-arized and marketed in a uniform way throughout the carlot markets of the country. James Nicol, president .of the Michigan Fruit Growers, is chairman chair-man of the executive committee of the Federated Growers ; also Influential in the original organization of that na-thmal na-thmal association as chairman of the American Farm Bureau federation marketing committee of twenty-one which brought the Federated into existence. |