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trees we have that we have not set out 
since the big freeze, there are more cal¬ 
louses near the ground, so that if our 
present old trees got back to the old size 
they will not be as safe as before, but 
trees planted now would be just as safe 
as they were before the freeze. 
Question—How much did your shed 
cost ? 
Mr. Hart—My shed cost me $450 an 
acre. It will cost a little more than that 
now, because material is a little higher 
priced. 
Question—What would it cost per 
acre if lumber could be had at $6 a 
thousand ? 
Mr. Hart—That is exactly what I paid 
for mine; it is thin pecky cypress; that 
is the lumber which covers the sides and 
the laths for the roof cost $1.25. The 
only thick stuff which I used, costing 
$10, was 1x6 run across the top of each 
line of posts one way. The top is fifteen 
to sixteen feet. 
Mr. Painter—I would like to ask if 
Major Fairbanks remembers, in his ex¬ 
perience in Florida, any year in which 
we had frost as late as this year. 
Mr. Fairbanks—I think not. I have 
known on one or two occasions a late 
frost that would take the bloom, but it 
never got down as late as this year. 
Mr. Waite—In 1890, the 17th of 
March, we lost 1280 trees in Marion 
county that were eight to ten feet high. 
Mr. Hubbard—A few days ago I was 
talking with a native of Florida whose 
father lived here at the time of the freeze 
of 1835 an d who hunted the Seminole 
Indians. He told me that his father al¬ 
ways told him that the first freeze in 
1835, although it did a great deal of 
damage to the trees, did not kill them 
all out. Then they had a frost the 10th 
of April that killed them to the ground. 
Major Fairbanks—I should doubt 
very much that statement. We have 
authentic information on the subject in 
Williams’ History of Florida which gives 
a somewhat detailed account of that 
freeze, and I think we can assume that 
this history of Mr. Williams, which was 
written in 1837, is authentic. I have 
also seen it stated that it occurred on 
different dates. I think that my recol¬ 
lection is fixed that the freeze of 1837 
occurred on the 17th of February. 
Mr. Hubbard—This gentleman said 
there were two freezes that year. 
Miss - : I would like to tell of 
a cover that my father has tried at Dade 
City. It is made of slats and lined with 
palm leaves, two layers, about four inch¬ 
es thick, and inside the palm leaves is 
moss. One of them he tried this year 
was round, the other two were square 
and fastened with hinges, and during the 
winter weather he would take the cover 
off the top so as to have ventilation, 
and he found them very successful. I 
have not heard anything of that kind 
mentioned. The other trees around 
were damaged badly. 
Mr. Potter—We have four acres of 
grove and will have two or three hun¬ 
dred boxes of oranges. There were 117 
tents and where we put these up the 
trees were a month later in putting out. 
One was a grapefruit, but it has no fruit 
on it and no bloom, while of the other 
trees, one-half have fruit on them, and 
the tangerines have one-third less fruit 
than those which were outside. I would 
like someone to explain whether it was 
the fault of the tent or what? 
Dr. Kerr—I believe it was because 
they were not sufficiently ventilated. 
Mr. Potter—They were put up the 
