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The work of the League has had a far-reaching effect 

 on the industry. It has brought about reductions in the 

 freight and refrigeration rates on citrus fruits that have 

 saved the producers millions of dollars, the reduction of 

 10 cents per hundred pounds in the orange rate in 1907 

 adding more than four million dollars to the income of 

 the growers in the five years following. It secured through 

 Congress an equalization of the tariff duty between oranges 

 and lemons by securing an increase in the duty on lemons 

 equal to the difference in the cost of producing the lemons 

 as compared with the oranges, the duty on lemons now 

 being 1^ cents per pound and on oranges 1 cent per 

 pound. It brought about a change in the federal regu- 

 lations regarding the determination of decay in imported 

 fruit which has protected the California industry against 

 unfair competition, and it has secured the cooperation 

 of the state and federal governments in the investigation 

 of the nutrition troubles in citrus groves, in the study of 

 citrus by-products, and in other questions that affect the 

 upbuilding of the industry. 



