Mr. J. H. Hensley Vice-President for Colorado

Mr. J. M. Walker, of Denver, who had long been our honored VicePresident for Colorado, retired from business last fall and resigned his post. Mr. Walker was one of our most earnest workers and a power in every advance movement. His reports covering crops and production generally were full, specific and accurate, and his response to every appeal prompt. We shall miss him greatly.

The Executive Committee has elected to his place Mr. J. H. Hensley, of the Lawrence-Hensley Fruit Co., of Denver, and a gentleman who meets every requirement to the full. He is a worthy successor to Mr. Walker. The Association is to be congratulated on its good fortune. Mr. Hensley has been a loyal, prompt, intelligent and thorough worker year in and year out. Every request is fully covered and often anticipated. In other words he has had the interest of the Association at heart. It has been a pleasure and a privilege to work with him.

We Can Not Go To Atlantic City
Hunting Headquarters

Spring Meeting of Executive Committee

The Convention of 1912, at Chicago, voted to go to Atlantic City, N. J., for 1913. Your President and Secretary made careful personal investigation of the facilities at this point in February.

The Convention cannot be suitably accommodated. August is the busy month at Atlantic City, with as high as 200,000 visitors a day. It has grown in popularity and we in size since 1906. Hotels are crowded beyond capacity. We would have to divide our people among a dozen hotels and over a widely extended area. No suitable meeting room can be had and no room for the apple exhibit. Rates are high. Two or more people would have to occupy a room. Much discomfort would likely result from the accommodations. We cannot hold a suitable or profitable Convention from a business standpoint at this place in the month of August. The Executive Committee have therefore decided to go to some other city.

PRESENT POSSIBILITIES.

Many cities have been suggested and have strong backing. Boston. with the memories of Hancock, Warren, Adams, Otis, Washington and the heroic Continentals still living in Bunker Hill, Lexington and Fanueil Hall, wants us. She wants us to see Old North Church, where the famous lanterns started Paul Revere on his ride to endless fame, and God's Acres where sleep the heroic dead who launched the great republic upon the tide of empire.

New York, the most collosal and stupendous city on the globe, wants us. New York, where the wonders of the world are but commonplace, where the tides of mankind flow unceasingly under the rivers and the solid earth, over the surface and through the air-New York, which

knows no limitations to human energy and accomplishments,-the wonder of the ages in itself-opens its doors to us.

And, then, nestling within the shade of the Adirondack forests, where the lofty pines breathe their subtle perfume on the air, is the little City of Saratoga. To the east is the Valley of the Upper Hudson, to the south the Berkshires and Catskills and to the west the Mohawk. Here was fought one of the fifteen decisive battles of the world, for when Burgoyne laid down his arms on the banks of the Hudson, the independence of the United States was assured. Saratoga Springs, with its enormous hotels, its wonderful parks, its shaded drives, its historical pageant, and almost at the door of beautiful Lake George, wants us.

And, finally, the Sixth City of the United States beckons us. Cleveland, the home of Mark Hanna and Tom Johnson, centrally located, easy to reach by boat, automobile or train, with a new hotel large enough to accommodate the whole Convention.-Cleveland, the Queen of the Lakes, bids us welcome. John D. Rockefeller started his career in Cleveland as a produce merchant. Every apple man ought to see this place and find out how he did it. There's money in it.

THE DECISION.

The Executive Committee will hold a meeting at the Hotel Statler, Cleveland, Ohio, Friday, March 21st, at 10 A. M., to settle this question and others. Where Would You Like to Go? Pick The Winner. Advise the Secretary.

Circular Sent By Chicago Retailers
To Their Trade

Distributed With The Daily Orders

APPLE FACTS

(EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN)

40 MILLION BARRELS OF APPLES

This is the Season's Apple Crop

Are you getting your share of good apples?

The Chicago Clean Food Club proposes to demonstrate that firstclass apples may be had at reasonable prices by the consumer at their sale. Watch for the signs in RED indicating the places of sale, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7TH and 8TH.

The place should be YOUR grocer, co-operating with them. Reliable authorities say the APPLE is one of the most wholesome of our fruits and has medicinal virtues of the greatest value.

The food properties of apples are as great as meat, and it is known that the phosphorous contained in apples renews the nervous matter of the brain worker and restores the nervous energy necessary for the next day's work.

It starts all the secretions into vigorous action and floods the system with a new tide of life.

It is a friend to health and a foe to disease.

It is food, tonic, condiment and cosmetic all in one.

It kindles the brilliancy of the eye.

It plants roses in the cheeks.

You cannot eat too many,-after the heartiest meal, there is always room for another apple.

There is only one thing better than an apple, and that is another that is being eaten by a friend..

An apple is a social fruit, it draws human beings together in fellowship.

Plenty of good apples will keep the children at home and in at night, husbands as well, and keep the doctor away.

It promotes temperance.

It appears on our table in many appetizing forms.

Raw fruit, as it comes fresh and crisp from the trees and the refrigerators, needs no culinary art to improve it.

A knife spoils it; let it be crushed and crunched in the mouth, and then it gives out its richest flavor and yields the greatest satisfaction. The apple family contains in its varieties exquisite flavors adapted to all tastes.

It is the oldest of our known food necessities.

EAT APPLES-EAT THEM RAW-EAT THEM COOKEDBUT EAT THEM.