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wise thing to do just at this time. The 
Plant Board is going to have hard sled¬ 
ding this year to get along; it is going to 
have hard sledding to have the legislation 
passed that it needs and it is my idea that 
we have got to concentrate, that the Plant 
Board has got to concentrate on as large 
a program as they think they can carry 
through and stick to it. Every one of 
these things will make enemies and, be¬ 
lieve me, we haven’t too many friends. 
I think it is a serious mistake and it is not, 
to my mind, the policy of this Society 
and I think it is out of order. 
H. H. Hume: I listened to the, reading 
of the bill very carefully myself while 
Dr. Sample was reading it and unless 
there were some modifications in it I 
would not be willing to endorse, it myself 
because it requires in that bill the de¬ 
struction of certain insects and pests 
which I know cannot be destroyed in 
Florida and yet that is plainly stated in 
that bill. It stands for established in¬ 
structions, names the pests that are to be 
destroyed or exterminated and I don’t 
think it can be done. Now, I am in favor 
of a bill of this type if properly drafted 
but I don’t believe this bill will fill the 
bill. It refers to the extermination of 
whitefly, to the extermination of pecan 
scab and refers to the extermination of a 
number of things that cannot possibly be 
exterminated, and that clause is so tied 
up in it that I know what we would be 
going up against. I know what we have 
gotten up against in our present Plant 
Act. 
F. W. Raine: I am very much inter¬ 
ested in hearing the reading of this bill. 
I have been in public life about thirty 
years in five different states and if there 
is anything it strikes me that you want to 
go carefully on it is the question of legis¬ 
lation. I am with a new organization 
that desires to go into various lines of 
horticulture and we are coming into the 
State where conditions such as tropical 
conditions, insects, diseases and all that 
sort of thing, are, different, although I 
have had actual training along these 
lines. Now, I am delighted to hear the 
Plant Board patted on the back, as it 
were, and I believe they are patting them¬ 
selves on the back, but, after all, the 
laws that we have already are not proper¬ 
ly carried out; they cannot be properly 
carried out. I know myself, having been 
a State official. To pass, the legislation 
is the last thing. The thing to do is to 
get something that will work out and 
give us the desired results. Now, not¬ 
withstanding the training and experience 
I have had, since I have come into Florida 
I have run into many little technical mis¬ 
givings here and I think those things 
ought to be cleared up rather than the 
passing of new legislation. Now, as a 
matter of fact in Palm Beach County we 
have many orchards there that doubtless 
have almost all the various pests or in¬ 
sects in them if you go after them with 
a microscope. The laws that have been 
passed by the State I believe don’t apply 
to many of these conditions and I believe 
you have got to go mighty careful in 
passing a bill of this kind. Throw our 
energies on what has already been done 
and get results from them. From talk¬ 
ing with practical men I think there is 
an undercurrent of feeling that the Plant 
Board, for instance, is too chesty and 
