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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
November ist in our packing house test¬ 
ed over 1.25, according to the chemist. 
Another sample of oranges from the 
same point passed less than 1.25. They 
were sent to Tallahassee. 
Mr. Hume: I think we better vote on 
the amendment. The amendment is that 
the bill and the standard and everything 
concerned with the bill as read by Cap¬ 
tain Rose, the bill which carries with it 
a standard of 1.30 for oranges and 1.75 
for grapefruit be referred to the Legis¬ 
lative Committee. 
(Amendment lost.) 
Mr. Skinner: I attended the Gaines¬ 
ville convention, and in furtherance of 
harmony, which I desired, and to get a 
law which I thought would be observed 
—for there is no use of having a law un¬ 
less you can enforce it—I say, in fur¬ 
therance of harmony and to get a law 
that would be enforced and which we 
could all obey, with the statement of Cap¬ 
tain Rose that an orange of 1.25 acid 
was not fit to eat, we adopted that make¬ 
shift, which has been the cause of a 
great deal of trouble. Now, right after 
the meeting adjourned, a gentleman 
whom I have not seen since, produced a 
bunch of oranges. The chemist took 
some of these oranges, cut them in half, 
distributed one-half to the audience and 
took the other half to make a test. The 
oranges would not stand the test. The 
audience tested the oranges, and they 
were good. I felt mighty cheap, because 
I knew I had advocated something that 
I thought would be all right/ but I felt 
that the test from the chemical standpoint 
was a failure, and the only redeeming 
feature was the date set and the color 
test. 
Now, I do not really know what a 1.30 
orange is. I know that the orange which 
was put up at 1.25 and would not stand 
the chemical test, was a good eating or¬ 
ange, and every man in that meeting will 
tell you so. 
I agree that we should have some 
standard. I do not know exactly what 
it should be, but if you pass this resolu¬ 
tion, it is very evident you will come a 
long way from passing it unanimously, 
and this resolution which represents a 
few growers; is it right for you to say 
to your brother orange growers, “You 
shall not ship your fruit . until such a 
time?” I believe in being fair, and I be¬ 
lieve in being fair to yourself, but I am 
not a believer in trying to force people 
to accept something that is not right. 
At Tampa, some of the people who 
did not want this standard, tried to adopt 
a standard which was no good. I could 
not agree with them. 
I am afraid of this 1.30 standard, be¬ 
cause I think it is too small. I cannot 
go with Captain Rose, because I know 
that he once led me astray. 
Mr. Rose: I rise to a point of per¬ 
sonal privilege. At the Gainesville con¬ 
vention, you received the report of Mr. 
Hume, who was the chairman of the 
commission, Dr. Collison, and Professor 
Rolfs and myself, and they recommended 
that standard—not Captain Rose. 
Mr. Skinner: I asked you personally 
if a 1.25 orange was fit to eat, and you 
said, “No, it is not.” We brought an or¬ 
ange before that convention that was a 
good eating* orange, and was sweet and 
