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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
peel remains green, so that the greenness 
does not constitute immaturity. 
Florida has to meet competition. Flor¬ 
ida growers, I take it, are not in business 
for their health. They are in business 
for results. They plant trees and culti¬ 
vate them and go to great expense to get 
a profit out of the business. They are 
industrious and are doing all they can to 
lengthen the marketing season. Now, by 
adopting Mr. Rose's bill, they are going 
to work and voluntarily shortening our 
marketing season. 
Mr. Rose: I rise to a point of privi¬ 
lege. It is not ‘“Mr. Rose’s billit is 
the bill which I was directed by the or- 
a nge growers to prepare, so that a stand¬ 
ard mght be set. This is the result of 
the work which I was directed to do. It 
is not “Mr. Rose’s bill” at all. 
Mr. Chase: Mr. Chairman, I under¬ 
stood him to say it was his bill, and— 
Mr. Rose: I did not say it was my 
bill. It is the bill of the citrus growers 
of Florida, directed by them for me to 
prepare. 
Mr. Chase: I apologize to Captain 
Rose. I talked the matter over with him 
and understood him to say he drew up 
the bill after correspondence with cer¬ 
tain other persons. 
Mr. Rose: I said, after instructions of 
the citrus growers. I prepared this bill 
after being instructed to do so by the 
convention at Tampa, and after it had 
been discussed at the convention at 
Gainesville, I received a telegram signed 
by three members appointed for that 
purpose, to notify me they had accepted 
it, with certain modifications. 
Mr. Skinner: That brings me into the 
discussion. Don’t sit down, Mr. Chase 
I am not going to take but a minute. 
I want to say that yesterday, before 
a committee of twenty, Mr. Rose said 
that he had written this bill out at 1.2? 
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instead of 1.30, as instructed by the Tam¬ 
pa Convention, and I think that was one 
of the reasons Mr. Chase thought it was 
Mr. Rose’s bill. 
Mr. Chase: I was speaking, I believe, 
of the competition that Florida oranges 
have to meet, and the inadvisability of 
passing a bill or making a law placing 
the industry under the control of Captain 
Rose’s department. In the first place, 
this coming fall, we will have no com¬ 
petition from California in the way of 
Valencias. When the California fruit is 
sold out, the prices are high and there is 
a demand for Florida oranges just as 
soon as they are fit to eat; that is, are 
sufficiently mature to make them palata¬ 
ble. When the California Valencia crop 
becomes large, the prices fall in inverse 
ratio to the supply of fruit, and the Flor¬ 
ida oranges are unprofitable when ship¬ 
ped early. 
This year, the crop is light, and we 
have an elegant opportunity, just as soon 
as our fruit is mature and fit to go into 
the markets, to supply them. The mar¬ 
kets will be bare and will take a large 
supply of fruit. If it is necessary to 
wait until these markets are supplied, in¬ 
stead of 80 cents profit on a box, you will 
have to be content with 28 cents. We 
can expect to see large quantities of Va¬ 
lencia oranges which are no better to 
eat than ours would be, brought into New 
\ ork, Boston and other ports which we 
might supply. Jamaica has never been 
