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is to get there in the work which it is my 
mission to do. 
That is the way with refrigeration, 
when it comes, it stays. And it is not 
unlike the Pullman car either. Refriger¬ 
ation is an anaesthetic, it puts all the lit¬ 
tle parasites to sleep to the journey’s end 
and permits you to do in comfort and 
certainty what only the most skillful of 
you can do by watching the weather and 
governing your day-to-day practice ac¬ 
cording to the changing conditions. Like, 
an anaesthetic, too, refrigeration enables 
us to perform operations that without it 
would be impossible. So soon as refrig¬ 
eration appears, new trade practices fol¬ 
low in and before we know it, we all have 
to have it. The most profit is to the 
man who gets it first. This has been the 
experience with every product to which 
refrigeration has been applied; it will be 
your experience. 
I have not been here long enough to 
speak with authority on some problems 
ahead of us. In the fifteen months since 
I came to Florida for this work, I have 
returned north seven times and have as 
promptly felt the pull and returned to 
Florida. Whitman would probably say 
that I am hooked and don’t know it. I 
mav have swallowed the hook; but I can 
truthfully say that it does not hurt a bit. 
