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ashamed of myself, that I should work twelve months, pack 
my oranges as nicely as I could, box them, ship them to New 
York, and have returns come back that yielded not enough to 
pay my hired help. I would like to ask a question as to a 
matter I am not thoroughly posted on. I simply wish to put 
the question; the members might say yes or no, to save time. 
Do they really believe there has been money enough received 
back from the north to pay for all the expenses of the crop of 
oranges this year? 
Cries of No! No! 
Now gentlemen, as to this question of transportation: It 
has been clearly shown here that there is no use to resolve and 
resolute on the question. Resolutions do not amount to a row 
of pins; applications to railroad companies do not amount to 
a row of pins. Now, how are you going to bring the trans¬ 
portation companies to terms ? We have been working along 
the lines suggested for years. We have not made one step in 
advance. If our returns have been insufficient to pay us for 
raising the last crop, and this seems clear, what is the use of 
shipping the next crop ? Let us stop right here and go into 
no more expenses for the next year’s crop, and if we do this, 
will not the railroads come to us and ask us to ship our or¬ 
anges, and will they not give us a rate at which we can afford 
to ship ? 
Place of Next Meeting—Jacksonville Selected. 
G. H. Wright, of Chuluota—I move the place of next meet¬ 
ing be taken up. 
Carried. 
The President —The question of location of next meeting 
is before the society. Have any communications been re¬ 
ceived upon the subject? 
