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continuation of this work possible this 
season. Mr. Temple paid out of his own 
pocket. 
Mr. Hume: Shall I consider it a mo¬ 
tion, Mr. Skinner^ that the thanks of this 
Society be tendered to the department, 
and to Mr. W. C. Temple? 
Mr. Skinner: Yes, please consider 
that a motion. 
Motion seconded and carried. 
Mr. Hume: The motion has been 
carried that the thanks of this Society 
be tendered to the Department of Fruit- 
Shipping Investigations in Florida, and 
to Mr. William Chase Temple for hav¬ 
ing made this work possible. Mr. Sec¬ 
retary, you will please attend to it. 
Mr. Carroll: Speaking about clippers : 
I don’t think the instrument is so much 
to blame for the injury done to the or¬ 
ange. Don’t you think it is the man at 
the other end of the clipper more than 
the instrument itself? 
Mr. McKay: Yes. I have seen cuts 
made with the best clipper. I have also 
seen practically perfect fruit turned in 
by men with poorer clippers, but doing 
good work. 
Mr. Carroll: It has been my exper¬ 
ience that injury to the orange is caused 
more by the man than the clipper. I 
have found that men who were careful 
had far less mechanical injury, under 
less advantageous circumstances. 
I was greatly impressed not long since 
at a grove in this State where I went to 
see the gentleman who owned it. I could 
not find him, and at first could not find 
anybody, but I soon located them. I 
could hear them pouring oranges into the 
field boxes at least two hundred yards 
away. Of course that would not hurt an 
orange( ?). 
Me. McKay: No^ not if you eat it 
right away. 
