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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
which shall consist of all those counties 
lying south of Hillsborough, Polk, Osceo¬ 
la and Brevard counties; a middle section, 
which shall consist of all the counties ly¬ 
ing between the northern and southern 
districts. 
The members of the Executive Com¬ 
mittee are elected for a term of three 
years. Three members, one from each 
district, are elected at each annual meet¬ 
ing. The committee elects its own of¬ 
ficers. The committee with the officers 
elected for the past year has been as fol¬ 
lows : 
L. B. Skinner, Dunedin, President. 
Dr. JC H. Ross, Florence Villa, ist 
Vice-Pres. 
H. C. Schrader, Jacksonville, 2nd Vice- 
pres. 
J. C. Chase, Jacksonville. 
Z. C. Chambliss, Ocala. 
J. R. Davis, Bartow. 
A. F. Wyman, Bradentown. 
H. E. Heitman, Fort Myers. 
T. V. Moore, Miami. 
MEMBERSHIP. 
The membership reported last year was 
1,027. These included all the names be- 
cured by Mr. Hamner, and all those se¬ 
cured after the first of January, 1914, 
prior to our meeting of last April. In 
the formative period many persons joined 
whose interest was small, but who were 
willing to pay one dollar to see a new 
thing started. 
The paid up membership on April ist 
of this year was 1,153, a net gain of 126 
over a year ago. While the gain has not 
been great, yet the present membership 
represents a much more substantial sup¬ 
port than we had last year. 
FINANCES 
The accounts of the League have been 
audited recently by Charles Neville & Co., 
Certified Public Accountants, of Savan¬ 
nah, Ga., and Jacksonville, Fla. The 
fiscal year of the League ends with August 
31st. From January ist, 1914, to the 
end of our fiscal year, the total receipts 
were $6,495.98 and the total disburse¬ 
ments $6,197.74, leaving a balance on 
hand of $298.24. From Sept. 1, 1914, 
to March 31, 1915, the receipts, together 
with balance on hand Sept, ist, was $3,- 
450.23. The disbursements were $3,- 
224.84, leaving a balance on hand March 
31st of $225.39. 
STANDARD PACKAGES. 
Because of certain legislative matters 
in the national government, and in more 
or less of the states, and to simplify our 
rate structure, it is going to be the ad¬ 
vantage of the state, and especially to the 
vegetable industry, to reduce the number 
of different sized crates and other pack¬ 
ages which are used. I believe the time 
is not far distant when those packages 
that remain in use will become by law 
“Standard Packages,” and it would not 
surprise me greatly if the use of packages 
other than the standard one would be 
prohibited. 
During the last hours of the recent 
Congress, the first of these bills was 
passed, fixing the standard for barrels 
and also for one-third, one-half and three- 
quarter barrels. The barrel that has been 
made the standard shall be of the follow¬ 
ing dimensions: length of stave, 28 
inches; diameter of heads, 17 1-8 inches; 
