134 FLORIDA FRUITS ORANGES. 



We earnestly recommend the newly created ''Florida 

 Fruit Exchange" to every shipper, as, if properly sup- 

 ported, by them, it must result in a vast increase in the net 

 results of shipments to those who have heretofore been 

 wholly at the mercy of irresponsible commission men, 

 and without redress for the false returns too frequently 

 made. 



Several methods of packing oranges away, so that they 

 will keep in perfect condition for months, have recently 

 proved successful, thereby enabling the grower to hold 

 his fruit, if he chooses, for the highest prices late in the 

 season, or even in midsummer. 



One of these is to pack the fruit in thoroughly dry sand, 

 making sure that they do not touch each other ; another, 

 to pack in dry sawdust ; and another, in cotton seed. 



Still others have buried the fruit in the sand, under a 

 rain-proof shelter, and found them perfect after six months 

 or more. 



These are facts to be well heeded when the market is 

 glutted, or prices for any reason not satisfactory, and 

 above all, when (if ever again) comes the warning from 

 the Signal Service office of "severe cold" approaching. 



In the recent almost unprecedented cold w r ave that 

 swept over our fair State, while this work was in press, 

 hundreds of thousands of oranges were lost upon the 

 trees that might have been saved had their owners real- 

 ized the danger, and been marketed months later. 



