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the Supreme Court of the United States rendered a verdict 

 in favor of the lemon industry. This service of the league 

 represents a normal annual gain of $250,000 to the grow- 

 ers. The league also handled the pre-cooling and pre-icing. 

 litigation and secured additional significant savings to the 

 shippers of oranges and lemons. 



The league was largely responsible for having the tariff 

 bn lemons raised by the Payne-Aldrich Act from one cent 

 to one and one-half cents a pound. Probably its activities 

 in 19 1 3 kept lemons from being placed on the free list, and 

 left them with a duty of one-half cent a pound in the 

 Underwood Act. Through the efforts of the league the 

 Federal authorities have specified acceptable standards for 

 the shipment of frosted and immature fruit. In 1909, when 

 the citrus industry was threatened by the infestation of the 

 white fly, the league furnishd funds for its eradication at 

 a time when the State authorities had no funds available. 

 Later, however, the league was reimbursed. In 191 1 the 

 league induced the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture to undertake a thorough study of the causes of 

 decay in oranges and to establish a laboratory for the ex- 

 perimental study of citrus by-products. 



To the league's credit can be placed much of the interest 

 in and application of frost protection devices. Many grow- 

 ers who saved their crops by heating appliances in the frost 

 of 1913 were induced to make the necessary preparations 

 because of the league's propaganda. One of its most sig- 

 nificant accomplishments was its important part in inducing 

 the California Legislature to authorize a branch of the 

 University of California, College of Agriculture, for the 

 study of and investigation into citrus problems, such as soil 

 and nutrition problems, insect pests and citrus diseases. 

 A new experiment station has recently been established at 

 Riverside and bids fair to take a leading part in the future 

 iipbuilding of the industry. 



