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When the major apple processing plant* of this area announced their _ prices last week-lowest since the * disastrous 1951 prices and lower than last year’s below cost of production prices-* chain reaction of resistance by area fruit grower* commenced. ■ rv.j !
Twenty or mbit growers met in ' Sperryville on last Wednesday night and agreed to cut out and destroy each year for ten year* 10% of their processing or least profitable varieties of their orchard*. They further agreed to resist these low jprieerbp refusing t.' deliver apples.
On Thursday (tight approximately fifty or more growers with an estimated production of over one-half million bushels met at the Courthouse after only several bouts notice . and unanimously ' -The prices announced are:
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43.3%