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that the laws are too sweeping and I tell 
you, gentlemen, while it appears in the 
State Horticultural Society as one of the 
finest laws being worked out, etc., under 
ground you will find that the strongest 
men and those we are looking up to, feel 
that there is a lot of red tape about it and 
we have got to all pull together and work 
out something satisfactory. I would by 
all means kill a proposition of this kind 
immediately. 
H. H. Hume: I think, Mr. Raine, you 
are in a very unpopular place to be talk¬ 
ing against the Plant Board, for the most 
of us are well aware of the wonderful 
work which has been done and is being 
done by that institution. 
Mr. Mark Sample: As I understand 
it, this is a tentative bill and the title of 
the bill is “Pest Control Act,” is it not? 
It is, as Mr. Skinner has just said to you, 
practically compulsory spraying. If there 
is anything we need in this State it is 
compulsory spraying. I believe all the 
best growers will agree with me that we 
must have spraying and the only way to 
have these things is by compulsory spray¬ 
ing. This particular bill is not the one 
that will be, presented perhaps, but is the 
bill prepared by the Plant Board to be 
corrected as deemed necessary. 11 is 
practically impossible to exterminate 
whitefly, but, Mr. Chairman, I do think 
it is very important that we have a bill 
enacted in our legislature called “Com¬ 
pulsory Spraying.” 
Mr. M. G. Campbell: From my ex¬ 
perience in attending the legislature of 
this State in 1917 and 1919 I would say 
that that would be a bad bill for this as¬ 
sociation to indorse, although I person¬ 
ally am in favor of that bill. If the whole 
State of Florida were a citrus-growing 
State instead of the southern part, it 
would be a different proposition but had 
that bill been in effect when we were 
asking for an appropriation for citrus 
canker you know what the legislature 
would have told us. They would have 
said, “Citrus canker is not included in 
that bill because you did not know it. We 
will include citrus canker in this bill and 
let each county pay for eradication.” If 
we should get black fly we would 
meet that same proposition in Tallahas¬ 
see, I am positive. We may have to go 
there for an appropriation for that pur¬ 
pose and if we do, you know what the 
legislature would say to us—“Black fly 
was not in Florida at that time; we will 
include it in your compulsory spraying 
bill and let each county handle it.” If 
that had been the case with citrus canker 
we would still have citrus canker. That 
is a good bill and I think every citrus 
man is in favor of it, but I think every 
citrus man who has had experience in 
Tallahassee knows what he is up against. 
When the entire citrus industry was 
threatened some thought it would be 
simply a matter of going to the legisla¬ 
ture and asking for an appropriation, but, 
take it from me, it was not such an easy 
matter to get it. The citrus industry was 
seriously threatened and if we had had a 
bill of this kind we would have citrus 
canker today, although it is a good bill. 
Mr. H. H. Hume: I most thoroughly 
indorse what you have had to say, Mr. 
Campbell. Any further discussion? 
Mr. Skinner: Moved that bill be laid 
on the table. 
Moved and seconded that bill be laid 
on the table. Motion passed. 
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