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falo we started off with five carloads and 
we have gotten up to thirty. Therefore 
for the Red Spanish pine the field is open 
and is increasing. Our only necessity is 
to grow a marketable fruit. Of course, 
if we will grow 48 to the crate, instead of 
24, the one selling at $1.50 gross and the 
other at $3, the one taking 48 pines, the 
other 24 to the crate, the man who 
grows the 24s and 30s is the man who 
will win. 
The use of ice is deadly to any pine. 
It will cause it, if green, not to ripen; if 
ripe, to decay. We load those cars with 
crates well spaced, well ventilated, so 
that if you place small pieces of paper at 
one end they will be carried right 
through the car to the other end by the 
draft; there is a strong current of air, 
and the fruit is kept in perfect condition. 
The only time we have any difficulty is 
after July; from this on toward the end 
of the season we have our trouble. Up 
to that date we can strike an average, 
and it is surprising to know how it 
stands. Late in season local fruits are 
coming in plentifully. Peaches will sell 
12 1-2 cents to 25 cents per basket. 
People have been eating pines since the 
first of April. The canning has been 
done and even the men to make the juice 
for medicinal purposes and soda fount¬ 
ains have stopped, and at that date we 
have the most difficult time. We have 
to urge our agents and this is the time 
we have to fight hardest for the success 
of our work. This is when returns will 
come in sometimes very poor and unjust 
growers will be dissatisfied. We cannot 
fail to have these difficulties every sea¬ 
son and we cannot do more than do our 
best. But all we aim for and ask is to 
make the net result on the whole for the 
good of the grower. 
Protection, Cold Weather Cycles, Etc* 
A DISCUSSION. 
Mr. Porcher—I think we all recall 
cases where the reading of the thermom¬ 
eter has been given in various sections. 
I have always thought that many times 
a man was right where he was accused 
of being wrong; that there are big dips 
of cold that there is no accounting for. 
I have known on the East Coast on one 
occasion where the fruit was injured by 
a southwest cold wind. On another, 
West Pahn Beach and Lemon City were 
struck, and no harm done elsewhere. 
Dr. J. W. Plummer had his pines abso¬ 
lutely frozen and ruined and those at the 
north and south of him were uninjured. 
Last winter when the lowest reading of 
the thermometer in Rockledge was 30 
degrees, we recorded 18 degrees at my 
grove on Merritt’s Island for a short 
time. Some young trees were killed; 
we have not a guava this year. Two 
miles south of us there was no injury 
done. The same north. It did not 
cross the river. When we made fires 
