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profit. But in the last few years, the 
work of the Experiment Station and the 
work of the County Demonstrators, has 
opened up to me a vista that is simply 
wonderful. If you Florida growers can 
conceive of something that can drive out 
sand spurs and give you a crop that will 
bring you as much money to the state as 
the citrus crop of Florida, you will admit 
it is wonderful: that thing is the Natal 
grass. It will crowd out sand spurs and 
everything else, and think what prosperity 
this state would have if every piece of 
ground along the wayside, were planted 
to Natal grass, Do you know that we 
pay more every year for hay, than we 
take in from the orange crop? 
I wish I were younger, to take hold of 
this work. I feel this state is on the verge 
of a prosperity that is immense; not from 
the citrus industry alone, but general 
farm products. 
