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the outfit. It depends very much on the 
size of the grove as to what the investment 
in machinery should be. Begin with a bag 
of fertilizer and a hoe increasing with the 
number of trees. 
DISCUSSION. 
Mr. Blackman—Mr. President, it seems 
that some legislation is at present pending 
at Tallahassee on the white fly and insects. 
A copy of the pending bill has been called 
for but it appears that none of the mem¬ 
bers have it, nor have many of them seen 
what the measure is. I am not personally 
interested in the white fly, as it has not yet 
appeared with us, but I am deeply inter¬ 
ested in behalf of the societ}^ in this pest 
and believe that if something is not done 
to stop its ravage the state will be over¬ 
run. However, we should be careful 
as to what character of measure is enacted. 
We should see that it shall be a measure 
as will not work a burden or hardship upon 
the growers. Yet, I conceive it to be 
essential that some measure be enacted 
that will control the ravages of the white 
fly- 
Dr. Richardson—I heartily concur in 
the remarks of Mr. Blackman. The white 
fly is a most destructive, pernicious pest, 
still we should carefully watch any meas¬ 
ure of legislation that is proposed, and 
should not endorse here any measure 
to be enacted unless we know what 
that measure is. It has been said that the 
the measure purports to provide 
that if the grower does not com- 
ply with the law that his proper¬ 
ty shall be taken in charge by 
the county commissioners and the ex¬ 
pense of dislodging the white fly taxed 
upon it by the county. This would in my 
judgment be very unwise and would work 
a hardship in many instances to a grower 
who was financially unable to protect his 
property and who was wholly irresponsi¬ 
ble for the introduction of the pest upon 
his property. It is well known that the 
white fly infests not only grove trees, but 
other trees, and shrubbery as well, 
especially hammock growths, and if we 
are going to legislate we ought first to 
legislate them out of the swamp before 
we tax the property of the grower for dis¬ 
lodging it from the grove property. I 
think this matter should go to our legis¬ 
lative committee with power to act in the 
premises, and with plenty of time to look 
into remedial measures of legislation. 
This is a very important matter and 
should receive the very best consideration, 
in all of its phases and in its operation 
after enactment, before we give it an 
endorsement upon the floor of this so¬ 
ciety. 
Dr. Kerr—^This is a very important 
matter touching the interest of every 
grower in the State. It should in my 
judgment go to our legislative committee, 
who should be granted plenty of time in 
the premises, bringing in its report to this 
society for further consideration.• 
Mr. Gillett—Mr. President, as a mem- 
ber of the legislative committee I agree 
with the gentlemen who have preceded me 
on this subject. I think the matter should 
go to the legislative committee and that it 
should have plenty of time to act in the 
premises. I have had some experience in 
formulating measures for enactment into 
laws and it requires time to look care^^*' 
into proposed measures of this kind, to 
calculate the effect of the operation of the 
law upon its enactment, comparing and 
weighing similar measures in other States^ 
so as to get the greatest good to the great-, 
est number as far as we can. 
The President—The matter of this 
