FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
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“What does she do with all those half 
dollars?” asked the master. 
“Lawdy, massa, I ain’t never give her 
none yit.” 
Now Florida is the wife asking for 
co-operation and the growers are the hus¬ 
band putting her off. 
The benefits of co-operation in this 
citrus industry would be farther reaching 
than the immediate profit from the main 
crop. The waste that goes on in all our 
groves is fully realized and it will take 
concerted action on all our parts to turn 
this loss into an asset. This is proved by 
the call for co-operation from various 
companies formed in the state which 
manufacture their product from this 
class of fruit. So it is to co-operative 
growth that we must look for the general 
development among us of those princi¬ 
ples of thrift that perhaps our bitterest 
lessons have yet been insufficient to teach 
us; for the acceptance of a standard which 
shall regard care for small savings as an 
honor and not a disgrace, and which shall 
recognize as one of the most important 
teachings of the gospel, that wonderful 
lesson in economy, when after the manifes¬ 
tation of overflowing bounty its ministers 
were admonished to “gather up the few 
fragments that remain that nothing may 
be lost.” 
