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Tallahassee, June 25.-Chapter 81
of the acts of the legislature of 1917,
created a state marketing bureau with
a commissioner to manage its affairs
under the direction of an executive
committee of three members with the
commissioner of agriculture acting
ex-officia. The appointment of the
committee and commissioner under
the law, was placed upon tse COM
missioner of agriculture.
Friday Commissioner McRae an
| nOunced the following as members of
the committee: J. L. Sheppard, of
Greensboro; L. S. Light, of Reddick,
and W. J. Singletary, of Grand
Ridge, all of whom are farmers and
| legislators widely and popularity
known throughout the state.
Mr.. Sheppard is a member of the
state senate from Gadsden county, and
was chairman of the committee on
agriculture during the recent ses-
sion, besides he is we'll known as
president of the Florida State Farm
ers' Union, which position he has held
for the last five years, during which
period the membership of the union
has grown as never before in its
history. Mr.. Light was a member
of the last legislature, serving his Sec
ond term as a representative from
Marion county, where he has been a
farmer for the last thirty years. He
was known in the house as "old sta
tistics," owing to the readiness with
which he backed up whatever he said
with the facts and figures, which he
always had at command. He has long
been a student of railroad and ex-
g press rate and market problems. He
cannot be other than a valuable mem
3 Der of the executive committee. Mr.,
Singletary has also "done his bit" as
q member of the legislature from
Jackson county, but is equally vel
known as a successful farmer, max
ing a speciality of manufacturing
, cane syrup, his brand popularity known
as "Roy's Pride" having a large sale
= in all parts of the country. He, too
knows something from practical ex
T perienCe in not only being a producer
but in the finding of markets for his
output, in all of which he is most sue
l cessful, and his usefulness in his new
, task cannot be questioned.
Members Good Men.
:, Altogether Commissioner McRa
| is to be commended Tor his selec
ton of the governing board of tn
marketing bureau. All are farmers
: producers and shippers, all have hal
legislative experience and know tn
state, the people and their needs. TIL
details in the matter of making tn
bureau a success will be worked OH
and applied and if there is heart
cooperation on the part of the farm
ers there can be no question as t
the benefits that must accrue t
the state.
II The selection of a commissions
was a problem that had to be wres
tied with, but it was happily solve
by the selection of L. NJ. Rhodes, VIII
has been for the last ten years chair
man of the executive committee Q
tn National Farmers Union, and /
the performance of his duties fire
uuent visitor to Florida. He has mad
a speciality of marketing question
and understands conditions in a
parts of the country from persona
experience and it would be Difficult
to secure his equal in knowledge Q
men and problems of production an
distribution. He is a native of Ter
nessee, and his coming to Florid
means much to our state in the in
portant work before him. He wa
unanimously recommended for the pt
sition of market expert by the off