FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
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ate, and I have received a telegram 
from him as follows: 
“Tallahassee, Fla., April 29, 1913. 
“M. E. Gillett, care Putnam Inn, De- 
Land, Fla. 
“Committee on Agriculture in Senate 
unanimously opposed to Crop Pest Bill. 
Have asked them to withhold report and 
keep bill in committee for few days to 
give you chance to appear before com¬ 
mittee. Better send some one here to 
take charge of it. Please advise me 
quickly. P. J. Drane.” 
Today at luncheon time our President 
handed me the following letter: 
April 29th, 1913 
Prof. H. Harold Hume. 
DeLand, Florida. 
Dear Prof. Hume :— 
Drane bill relating to “Pests” was 
referred to Committee on Agriculture 
in the Senate, and on yesterday this 
Committee reported unfavorably upon 
this bill; however, I have succeeded in 
having it recommended and the Com¬ 
mittee is now reconsidering same, it 
is the opinion of the Committee that 
the bill should be reported unfavor¬ 
ably, and unless the matter is brought 
inore clearly before them, I fear your 
measure will receive an adverse report. 
This Committee-is composed of Sena¬ 
tor J. B. Wall, Chairman, and Sena¬ 
tors J. C. Culpepper, W. H. H. Mc¬ 
Leod, J, B, Roddenberry and L. W. 
Zim, Unless your Association gets in 
some good work at once I fear your 
measure is defeated. Senator Wall 
told me that the Committee was 
unanimous in reporting unfavorably. 
This bill will not remain out with them 
but a short while, and I would suggest 
that you arrange at once to have your 
measure cared for. Senator Drane is 
anxious that the measure have full 
hearing before definite action is taken. 
A strong wire to the Committee would 
likely have its weight; and in the 
mean while I shall continue to do what 
I can. 
Sincerely yours, 
Max M. Brown. 
Realizing that this condition of affairs 
existed, and that there was danger that 
the bill would not go through, the com¬ 
mittee met this morning and drafted the 
following resolution. We ask the Socie¬ 
ty to endorse it. We wish to telegraph it 
to them immediately. That was the 
reason for bringing this report up at 
the present time: 
Whereas, the State Treasurer’s Re¬ 
port shows an annual profit exceed¬ 
ing seventy-five thousand dollars in 
the sale of feed and fertilizer stamps, 
and this income is made possible by 
the purchase of feed and fertilizer used 
by agriculturists and horticulturists; 
and 
Whereas, there is now pending be¬ 
fore the Legislature a crop pest Sen¬ 
ate Bill No. 218, which carries with 
it an' appropriation of twenty thou¬ 
sand dollars annually, and the horti¬ 
culturists of the State believe that thev 
are entitled to the protection promised 
them in this crop pest bill, in view of 
the injurious insects which are likely 
to be brought into this country and 
which may entirely destroy the citrus 
and other fruit industries, and feel that 
they are warranted in asking at the 
hands of the Legislature this small 
