FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
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structive period, in that railroads have 
been attacked from every quarter, and 
there is today a complete breakdown of 
the railroads throughout the United 
States.. 
You are not going to get your food 
products from the north and west be¬ 
cause we could not haul it if we would, 
but our business now is going to be reg¬ 
ulated by the government, and the govern¬ 
ment is going to say to us that we must 
haul lumber with which to make these 
vessels, we must haul certain products to 
be forwarded to the allies, and they are 
going to control, perhaps not the move¬ 
ment, but the things that shall be moved, 
the food products which shall be moved, 
all throughout this country. 
In the months to come you are not go¬ 
ing to have those things to which you are 
accustomed, unless you produce them 
yourselves. Cowpeas are going to be sub¬ 
stituted in the army and navy for other 
varieties of beans, and there is nothing 
you can raise in the way of food products 
that will not help your country. The Uni¬ 
ted States government is calling upon the 
railroads to do everything they can to 
stimulate the food production. They are 
drafting my department to the work of 
the government. 
I hope that every man here who has an 
available acre of land, will plant upon it 
some food crop. It will not only be a 
patriotic act but good business judgment, 
for before very long every food product 
will be high in price. 
I thank you. (Applause.) 
