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•charged 10 per cent. I would have had 2 per cent. left. I had 
taken so much medicine I thought I could take some more. 
I am just as much opposed to associations as I am to grape 
growing. 
Mr. Mott — I would like to ask Mr. Cooper if he ever 
raised a bunch of grapes in his vineyard all the berries of 
which were good enough to eat. 
Mr. Cooper —Certainly, I have, especially on that portion 
of my place called the “Camden Plac j .” I have raised as 
fine grapes there as you - ever saw. The vines are very vigor¬ 
ous. 
Mr. Mott —I have thought we could raise good grapes in 
Florida, and I think so yet, but we have got to import the 
man to raise them. The men who have been raising grapes 
around Orlando cannot do it. They have picked out the land 
that has been under water; land that it was never intended 
should be planted with grapes. They have cleared out the 
swamps and planted, and I am not surprised at the failures 
we have heard of and are hearing of. They planted grapes on 
land that nothing else would grow on. A gentleman at 
Haines City by the name of Dodson has four acres in grapes 
and he told me that his grapes were perfect last year, and 
that he shipped them and got good prices for them, and that 
they were all gone before he began to ship from around 
Orlando. 
Mr. Wright— I think you will admit that I have not made 
a very flowery report to-night. I did not propose to make one 
that would lead people into the crape-growing business until 
they knew what thay wanted. It is a fact that the finest grapes 
I have ever seen growing east of the Rocky Mountains were 
those I have seen grown in South Florida. 
There were a great many men who grew grapes around 
Orlando a few years ago who did not understand the proper 
mode of spraying the grapes and the result was mildew got 
away with a good many of them. I have used a mixture I 
consider quite efficient. Making and applying this mixture 
is a nice job. You put the sulphate of copper on the lime 
after it is all dis-olved, and you ruin it, but if you put the 
lime on the copper it is all right. You have to use the mixture 
as a preventive, not as a cure, and then you can make as per¬ 
fect grapes in South Florida as you can in Missouri, in New 
York or anywhere. I have not made a favorable report, but 
at the same time I do not want to say that there is any diffi¬ 
culty in growing first class grapes in South Florida, but the 
main trouble is in getting them to market. You want to get 
them there in first-class condition, and the returns will be 
satisfactory. When the question of transportation is solved 
