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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
by-laws the meetings of this Society are 
to be devoted to the discussion of the 
practical and technical side of horticul¬ 
tural topics only and under our by-laws 
it is made mandatory upon officers to 
over-rule any motion or resolution which 
will tend to permit this Society to partic¬ 
ipate in partisan politics or mercantile 
ventures. By that by-law I am obliged 
to ask the chairman to rule that motion 
out of order. 
C. E. Calkins: Will the gentleman 
who has just left the floor please, demon¬ 
strate to me what is more important to 
me than the destruction of my grove by 
cattle? I think this matter is perfectly 
incident to our consideration. (Ap¬ 
plause). 
L. B. Skinner: I will have to side with 
Mr. Krome although I live in a county 
where the people have cut the fences into 
about six inch pieces and are suffering 
from cattle like my friend over there and 
a lot of people do that, and while we could 
vote on that at a mass meeting I doubt as 
to the wisdom or the advisability of doing 
it as a Horticultural Society, although I 
am in favor of it. 
H. H. Hume: I know that in commit¬ 
ting ourselves one way or the other today 
we are treading on very thin ice—I hap¬ 
pen to be one of those who are in pretty 
close contact with the Legislature and I 
would like for Mr. Sample to have, gotten 
his bill through without appealing to the 
Horticultural Society but I will have to 
rule against Mr. Krome. Those in favor 
of adopting resolutions read by Mr. Sam¬ 
ple will signify same by the show of the 
hand. Opposed same sign. Resolution 
as read by Mr. Sample was passed. 
