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ducing the price to ten cents per half and 
fifteen cents per whole fruit. The fol¬ 
lowing lines have also agreed to a re¬ 
duction : Atlantic Coast Line, The N. C. 
& SU'D., the Mobile & Ohio, the L. & N., 
and the Pullman Qpmpany on its buffet 
cars. 
THE CITRUS CANKER WORK.' 
By far the biggest undertaking of the 
League has been in connection with the 
canker work. In my last annual report I 
called your attention to the presence of 
a new citrus disease in the state, and em¬ 
phasis was laid upon the fact that it would 
take strenuous efforts on the part of the 
entire industry to keep the disease from 
spreading over the whole citrus belt. 
After the discussions of this afternoon lit¬ 
tle further need be saick The position of 
the League in this work, I believe, has 
been made clear. It has cost a lot of 
money to fight the disease up to the pres¬ 
ent time, but the state as a whole has lost 
a trifle in comparison to what the growers 
in the diseased area have suffered. The 
state must continue the work, and the ma¬ 
jority of you can well afford to carry on 
the fight in a far section of the state, 
rather than to allow the disease to come 
nearer home. 
A total of $15,753.22 was paid to the 
League up to April 1st, 1915, for the 
citrus canker eradication work. Checks 
drawn on this account up to the same date 
total $14,912.07, leaving a balance on 
hand of $841.15. This covers only the 
amounts handled through the Orlando of¬ 
fice of the League, and does not include 
the large sums expended through the local 
associations of the League in Dade 
county; neither is the appropriation re¬ 
ceived from the United States Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture included in this total. 
The citrus canker fund has been han¬ 
dled entirely separate from the general 
funds of the League, which has been made 
necessary because of many contributions 
received from those who were not mem¬ 
bers of the League. Great credit should 
be given the Finance Committee, which 
has received the greater portion of the 
pledges to carry on the work. This com¬ 
mittee has consisted of the following well- 
known men: D. CL Gillett, J. C. Chase, 
Jefferson Thomas, B. L. Hamner and L. 
D. Jones. Among the large contributors 
have been the railroads operating in Flo¬ 
rida, marketing organizations, crate, pa¬ 
per and fertilizer manufacturers, manu¬ 
facturers of packing house equipment, 
development companies and many large 
growers. 
A suggestion was made a little time ago 
that the League have prepared, if possible, 
a moving picture film, showing the work 
of eradicating* the canker, and bringing 
out perhaps some other features ’that 
might be of interest and value to the in¬ 
dustry. The introduction of canker into 
Florida presented such an excellent il¬ 
lustration of the ease with which a dis¬ 
ease or insect pest may come to us from 
another state, or from a foreign country, 
that we felt this weakness on the part of 
our state should be emphasized, and 
brought to the attention of the farmers 
and fruit growers everywhere. There are 
other diseases and other insect pests even 
more serious than we now have in Flo¬ 
rida, and the League feels that our people 
should be thoroughly aroused to the 
