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ence to fall back on except his own as to 
whether the individual he hires for pick¬ 
ing purposes is mentally or physically suit¬ 
ed for the position as picker or handler of 
the fruit. This experimenting and try¬ 
ing to find efficient men becomes a costly 
experience every year. By effective co¬ 
operation the individual who proves to be 
unsuited for the work would have to find 
work to which he is by temperament 
suited. 
3. Losses from Insufficient Informa¬ 
tion Relative to Market Conditions. 
This is probably the most difficult point 
to handle, yet with* efficient co-operation 
every man who has a carload of fruit to 
sell should receive for it the best price 
any market will pay. 
4. Losses accruing from Conditions 
that We Have Directly Under Our Con¬ 
trol Locally. 
(a) By proper State laws we can 
keep out scores of insects that are now 
ready to pounce upon our crops. The 
dictum of the scientists of twenty-five 
years ago has been proven to be correct so 
many times that further demonstrations 
are entirely useless. 
(b) There are in addition to the in¬ 
sects scores of diseases some of which are 
as bad as any of those with which we 
now have to deal. While the minor dis¬ 
eases would probably not in themselves 
attract much attention they are simply 
adding that much more weight to our bur¬ 
den, and some of them might prove to 
be the proverbial “last straw.” 
(c) One of the directions in which we 
have been most dilatory and recreant is 
that of discouraging or stopping local dis¬ 
semination of insects and diseases. We 
have been so prone to stand on our per¬ 
sonal rights that we have simply permit¬ 
ted all sorts of diseases in the State to be 
disseminated at will and with impunity. 
I could cite case after case until it would 
fill a volume of illustrations to bear out 
this particular point. The amount of 
good that has been accomplished by our 
State Nursery Inspector, Dr. E. W. Berg¬ 
er, can never be fully realized by the 
citrus growers of Florida. From the evi¬ 
dence at hand it is safe to say that the 
one effort of controlling and stamping 
out of citrus canker is worth one hundred 
times more to the citrus industry of Flori¬ 
da than the cost of running the whole in¬ 
spection service. 
RISE OF THE VEGETABLE CROP. 
VEGETABLE CROP, 189O. 
Acres 
Quantity 
Value 
Tomatoes_ 
— 4350 
503,000 cr. 
$ 3 i 7 , 5 oo 
Cabbage 
2,240 
147,500 bbls. 
270,000 
Watermelons 
__ 2,700 
1,491 cars 
96,000 
Beans 
804 
84,000 cr. 
73,800 
Cucumbers __ 
— 767 
65,000 cr. 
61,800 
Irish Potatoes 
— 1,619 
40,700 bu. 
54,300 
Eggplant 
hi 
4,400 bbls. 
12,800 
Squash 
206 
7,400 bbls. 
9,400 
English Peas 
93 
4,500 cr. 
6,400 
Beets 
9 i* 
2,900 bu. 
2,700 
12,981 
$904,700 
VEGETABLE 
crop, 1893. 
Acres 
Quantity 
Value 
Tomatoes 
4,800 
361,000 bbls. 
$471,000 
Cabbage 
- 2,254 
176,000 bbls. 
197,000 
Beans 
- 1,214 
107,700 cr. 
152,900 
Irish Potatoes 
— 1,156 
59,000 bu. 
74,000 
Watermelons 
— 3,387 
1,633 cars 
41,400 
Squashes 
482 
25,000 bbls. 
41., 000 
Eggplant 
209 
7,700 bbls. 
26,700 
Cucumbers 
360 
25,500 cr. 
24,500 
English Peas 
290 
35,321 cr. 
21,400 
Beets 
171 
19,000 cr. 
17,000 
Cantaloupe _ 
__ 68 
2,700 bbls. 
4 , 5 oo 
i 4 , 39 i 
$1,071,400 
