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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
In this connection I desire to say that the not object to having to stamp the num- 
question of my attending this conference her of fruit in the box, but we claim that 
was referred to the Executive Committee this should satisfy the New York authori- 
of the league, and it was decided that I 
should attend the Helena hearing, pro¬ 
viding it seemed necessary. Inasmuch 
as we were able to secure the Railroad 
Commission to send one of its own mem¬ 
bers we felt that it was unnecessary for 
the manager of this league also to attend. 
While it is too early yet to tell what the 
decision of the Commission will be, we 
trust that Florida may secure some relief 
from the excessive freight rates to that 
part of the United States. 
A NEW YORK LAW AFFECTING FLORIDA 
SHIPPERS. 
New York state recently passed a law 
which has gone into effect, which re¬ 
quires that all lemons and other citrus 
fruits be sold by the count. The law 
further requires that all boxes and crates 
containing citrus fruits shall be marked 
(ist) with the number of fruit con¬ 
tained, and (2nd) the dimensions of the 
box or crate shall be clearly stenciled 
thereon. The meaning of the law is plain 
and it requires that every box of citrus 
fruit sold within the State of New York 
shall have stamped thereon the dimensions 
of the box. Until this law is changed, a 
shipper who does not want to run the 
risk of arrest must so stencil all of his 
boxes going to New York. Inasmuch 
as it is impossible to tell the destination 
of a car when loaded, this will mean, for 
all practical purposes, that all our boxes 
must be so labeled. Efforts are being 
made, and the matter will be pressed vig¬ 
orously, to get this law repealed. We do 
ties. There is no standard size for the 
citrus- box in New York, and nothing 
whatever can be gained to any one by 
having the dimensions stenciled upon the 
box. 
NEW GRAPEFRUIT DISEASE. 
Early in February my attention was 
called to the fact that there had been 
found last summer in two or three places 
in the state of Florida, in connection with 
nursery stock, a new and apparently a 
very disastrous disease on grapefruit 
buds. The nature of this disease, and 
much of the details of what is known 
about it, will be told you by other speak¬ 
ers at this meeting. The league immedi¬ 
ately upon gaining this information be¬ 
gan to find out the sentiment of the prom¬ 
inent growers in the state as to what 
action should be taken to eradicate the 
trouble. We are probably all familiar 
with the strenuous actions the California 
citrus growers took to eradicate the 
Whitefly after it had once gotten estab¬ 
lished in their state. There was a unani¬ 
mous opinion among the growers of Flor¬ 
ida that every possible means should be 
used to completely eradicate this new 
pest. The matter was presented to Dr. 
Berger with emphasis, and the matter 
was taken up by the Board of Control of 
the State, and Dr. Berger was instruct¬ 
ed to make a trip through the Gulf States 
where we felt sure this disease had orig¬ 
inated in this country, in order to have 
complete data upon the extent of the 
disease to assist us in our control meas¬ 
ures. Dr. Berger is here to tell us of this 
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