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been introduced from Nice. Application was made though 
the State Department for information regarding it. It was 
found that they did not know anything about it in Italy. 
Finally an old man was found who had some knowledge of it; 
and an old book was also found (which l>ook I have) which 
treated of this pest as it had appeared in the neighborhood of 
Nice, and went on to say that all the oranges were blighted 
and going to destruction and proposed certain remedies. 
The fact I wish to call attention to is that this pest once so 
much feared at Nice is no longer known as a serious enemy 
there. This pest, so prevalent here fifty years ago, which we 
have had since 1842 and which we know now in a modified 
degree, has not proved a serious obsticle to the development 
of our orange industry. In view of these facts, I do not think 
we need fear that our orange industry is going to perish, or 
even suffer serious injury from the ravages of these enemies 
of more recent introduction which have been referred to. 
Truck Farming. 
Paper prepared b/ J. A. M< ore, of PeusacoH, Escambia county, Chair¬ 
man Committee on Vegetables, and read by the Secretary. 
The raising of vegetables for family use only, as practiced 
by our forefathers in their little gardens laid out in squares 
to be dug and cultivated exclusively by hand, is a thing of 
the past, and in its stead we have the broad acres of the truck 
farmer, tilled with the most approved labor saving imple¬ 
ments. Wheel hoes for hand use, scarifiers, cultivators and 
harrows for horse; the seeds and commercial fertilizers are 
applied with similar apparatus. Thus equipped, the truck 
farmer takes rank among the most prosperous of our citizens. 
The raising of vegetables for the northern and western mar¬ 
ket < is becoming one of the leading industries of our state, and 
is largely increasing each year, and a few years will find our 
state almost one entire vegetable garden, sending out solid 
trains where now we send single cars. 
Our friends in the southern part of our state are particu¬ 
larly favored by having a climate during the winter months 
to be found nowhere else in the United States, where the ten- 
derest vegetables, like the tomato, egg plant, beans, cucum- 
