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element is the health-giving element of 
fruit and that has been quite clear to me. 
but it was only by assumption that we 
could include grapefruit. There had been 
no definite experiments and we assumed 
a good deal in making grapefruit embrace 
the same qualities, trying to word our ad¬ 
vertisements so that we could escape what 
happened to Mr. Skinner’s friend. How¬ 
ever, some exhaustive experiments have 
recently been carried on, and, as I re¬ 
member them, they are almost uniform 
in showing that the vitamine content of 
grapefruit in proportion to that of or¬ 
anges is as 8 to 7, so that apparently we 
have been quite thoroughly justified in 
including grapefruit. 
Now, Mr. President, if I may include 
just one word more, whenever there is an 
effort to increase the demand for Florida 
citrus fruit and I want to appeal to the 
members of the Florida Horticultural So¬ 
ciety as I have to a large number of com¬ 
mercial bodies in Florida, let us quit 
boosting California. Every time that we 
start to talk anything about a movement 
—this does not apply to citrus only—we 
hear a lot of talk about the spirited adver¬ 
tising of California as compared to Flor¬ 
ida. Now, I yield to no man in my admi¬ 
ration for California, the way she does 
things and so on, but Los Angeles does 
not have a thing on Miami and the Flor¬ 
ida advertisements for the popularizing 
of citrus fruits. I want to tell you this, 
which comes from the official record— 
the California Growers Exchange and the 
two next largest operators of fruit and 
fruit products have absolutely changed 
their plans of campaign made a year or 
two ago and have adopted almost in ex¬ 
act detail and substituted therefor a plan 
that the Florida co-operative growers 
have consistently followed for the last 
seven or eight years. I am proud of the 
fact that they have 1 done that for I think 
it is one thing that we ought not to fail 
to consider and that it ought in some de¬ 
gree to cause us to be just a little more 
proud of Florida and not quite so enthu¬ 
siastically boost California every time we 
start to talk advertising. I thank you. 
Mr. C. D. Kime: Mr. President, I 
make a motion that the Florida Horticul¬ 
tural Society go on record as favoring an 
orange-grapefruit week during the year 
1922. 
It was moved, seconded and passed 
that the Florida Horticultural Society go 
on record as in favor of an orange-grape 
fruit week. 
Mr. J. W. Sample: If I may at this 
time, I would like to introduce a resolu¬ 
tion. A year ago I am informed this So¬ 
ciety went on record as indorsing what 
at that time was known as the “No Fence 
League.” I would like to introduce to¬ 
day this resolution: (Reads resolution.) 
I would like also to have a copy of this 
resolution sent to the Legislature — I 
should say to a member of each House. 
I should ask a reindorsement by this Soci ¬ 
ety and the indorsement of this bill. I 
have not read the bill but if the members 
of the Society want the bill read I will 
read it. 
Mr. W. J. Krome: I doubt whether 
there is any member of this Society who 
individually, personally, more heartily 
endorses that resolution and the bill than 
I do but this is a meeting of the Florida 
State Horticultural Society. Under our 
