FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
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While I have emphasized the public- 
service side of this question, the results 
to each individual must not be overlooked. 
In this time of high food cost and having 
in mind that still higher price levels are 
likely to be reached it becomes well nigh 
a necessity for every one on the land to 
raise everything possible from it, thereby 
making it possible to live at less cost than 
if everything consumed has to be pur¬ 
chased. Out of this war pressure some 
good is bound to come. The lessons 
learned under the hard hand of necessity 
will not be forgotten when normal con¬ 
ditions are resumed. We shall live the 
better for having passed through these 
trying times, we shall produce more of 
what we need, we shall be less dependent 
on other parts of our own country and 
other parts of the world than we have 
heretofore been. And under present condi¬ 
tions the marketing of our surplus at re¬ 
munerative prices is a very much easier 
problem than it ever was before. In our 
production activities, emphasis must be 
placed on food stuffs and we may legiti¬ 
mately go outside our regular horticultu¬ 
ral lines and engage in stock raising, to 
the betterment of our economic condi¬ 
tions. We may look upon a live pig as 
nothing but a hog, at four cents a pound, 
but at sixteen cents a pound, the once de¬ 
spised and plebian animal becomes an 
aristocrat. 
And so let us awake at one and the 
same time to our necessities and to our 
opportunities — opportunities for world 
betterment, opportunities for national ser¬ 
vice, opportunities for personal independ¬ 
ence. 
