FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
ease, but the situation was staring us in 
the face that soon we would not be able 
to look after even the known infections. 
We decided that we were wasting our 
money like pouring water into a rat hole 
and that to make the work effective we 
must double or treble our force. We gave 
the people of our district in South Dade 
one week to decide. We had to have real 
money—we had any amount of subscrip¬ 
tions on paper but we didn’t have the cash. 
During that week the National Govern¬ 
ment gave Florida an appropriation of 
about one-half of the funds necessary, 
hardly that. But with that incentive, our 
people in South Dade raised sufficient 
funds to carry the rest of the work 
through until the first of July, not in pa¬ 
per or in promises but in actpal cash. So 
in South Dade our campaign is financed 
for the immediate future. If by July first 
the State has not made provision for car¬ 
rying it on further the work will stop, 
there is no other way out of it. 
Our community is a country of small 
groves and the majority of the groves are 
not producing. A census taken about a 
year ago in the Redland district showed 
that qnly about nine per cent, of the citrus 
properties were bearing. In a new coun¬ 
try where we have no wealthy populace, 
the financing of this campaign has come 
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as a very heavy burden, and though at 
times on the actual scene of trouble it 
has been unpleasant, on the whole I feel 
proud of the people of Dade county for 
the way they have supported this fight. 
They have responded time and time again 
and those who could not give actual cash 
have given labor. Of course there have 
been some instances of men who were 
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able who have not done their part but 
these have not been frecpient. There 
has been some feeling through our part 
of the country that the growers over the 
state were not doing their share. Our 
people felt that we were having to carry 
nearly the whole burden of financing the 
fight and it didn’t look fair. But we ap¬ 
preciate the fact that the growers of the 
state at large have not been fully informed 
of the danger that confronts them. It 
has not been brought to them as a perso¬ 
nal issue. The growers over the state 
have felt sympathetic toward those of 
Dade county but heretofore they have not 
realized they were in the same boat and 
threatened with the same disaster that 
has overtaken us; that if the end of the 
boat extending into the Redland district 
sunk, the bow of the boat in which they 
were riding would not be comfortable. 
We think that through various means 
such as Mr. Tenny has mentioned, of a 
moving picture film and other publicity 
work, it has now been brought home to 
our sister counties that this is a state-wide 
fight, and if they had realized it sooner, 
we think we would have obtained what 
we needed and the burden upon us would 
not have been so> heavy. 
There are some lines along which we 
must have help from the growers over 
the state at large, if we are to finally suc¬ 
ceed. There are about eight counties be¬ 
sides Dade, maybe nine, where infections 
are known to have occurred. How many 
others there are and at how many other 
points in those counties there are active 
infections right now, is simply guess 
work. When we know that every flying, 
walking, creeping animal can carry canker 
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