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Inn, on the Exposition Grounds, and organized by electing Mr. C. B. 

 Messenger chairman and Dean H. E. Van Norman secretary. The mat- 

 ter in question was fully discussed, there being representatives present 

 from many of the agricultural organizations of the state. The discus- 

 sion resulted in the following action, which was carried without dissent : 

 The chairman of the meeting shall appoint a committee of seven to draft 

 a brief comprehensive constitution of federation, including a directorate 

 made up of one representative from each association, to define member- 

 ship, to outline a plan of finance and to select a place and set the time 

 for a meeting to secure action on the proposed plan. The committee 

 appointed consists of: Messrs. H. E. Van Norman, H. J. Webber, 

 Carlyle Thorpe, G. H. Hecke, Charles Kimble, George C. Roeding, and 

 Guy" Miller. 



This action seems to me timely, as a bill is now before the Legislature 

 consolidating all the state departments of agriculture. All this works 

 toward organization that will be able to formulate a wide and compre- 

 hensive agricultural policy now impossible, and wll surely work for 

 economy and efficiency. 



In ease this new agricultural association is formed, all associations 

 can meet at the same time and place as sections of the organization, 

 giving all who attend a wider opportunity for gaining information, and 

 there will be present at all such meetings an agricultural atmosphere 

 which" will be far reaching in its beneficent influence. — A. J. C. 



Florida Orange Competition. — As long as oj-anges are grown in GaH- 

 fornia and Florida the argument will continue as to whioli is the 

 superior fruit. AVe might .just as well argue as to whether a Jonathan 

 apple is superior to a Bartlett pear — and both of us be nearly rieht. 

 However, the great auction markets, wherein are sold the trainloads of 

 oranges, both from California and from Florida, to the highest bidders, 

 give us, fortunately, a range of public figures on immense wholesale 

 quantities that voices exactly the public estimation of the two oranges. 

 For the first time in history, Florida oranges sold in the New York 

 market last year, up to February 1, averaged 9 cents a box higher than 

 the total sales of California navel oranges up to that date. This was 

 largely because of the badly frozen fruit from California the year pre- 

 ceding, p.nd only slightly because of improved packing conditions in 

 Florida. 



T^p to February 1st this year, the average upon the many thousands 

 of cars sold at public auction in New York shows that the California 

 navels have averaged 42 cents a box higher than Florida oranges. The 

 figures are exact, and include every car sold in that market up to the 

 date mentioned. This is the normal status of affairs. Some of us will 

 still argue, however. — Pacific Fruit "World. 



Oranges by Parcel Post. — C. A. Puffer, one of the well known orange 

 growers of the Bryn Mawr section, also a packer and a shipper, has 

 found by tests that oranges can be sent by parcel post packed only in a 

 cardboard box. The box is arranged with a filler of sections similar to 

 that of egg boxes, only larger. The boxes that Mr. Puffer has ordered 

 for the purpose hold just a dozen oranges, and can be sent anywhere 

 at a reasonable price. It has always been considered unsafe to send 

 oranges unless packed in wooden boxes. — Pacific Fruit World. 



