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per man per day can be picked, as he 
has to shift his ladder and tools less 
often. I have seen groves at the present 
time where the cost for picking alone 
was thirty cents a box, owing to the 
crop being very thin and scattered. 
Third— 
New plantings are being made with 
more and more judicious selection of lo¬ 
cation with reference to packing house 
centers, so that in the new plantings the 
haul of the fruit from the trees to the 
packing house will be less expensive, and 
in addition to this, experiments are be¬ 
ing made with automobile trucks instead 
of horse drawn vehicles for transporting 
fruit from the groves to the packing 
houses, which appear to show very ma¬ 
terial saving on the hauling charges. 
Fourth — 
I think a spread of the co-operative 
ideas of handling and marketing the fruit 
of the growers by the growers’ own or¬ 
ganizations, and the central packing 
house idea, are becoming more and more 
developed, and it is probable that in ten 
years’ time, from fifty to sixty packing 
houses, judiciously distributed over the 
citrus area of the State, will be better 
able to handle thirty million boxes of 
fruit than the present five or six hundred 
packing houses are able to handle eight 
million boxes of fruit; and this will mean 
increased efficiency, better work and a 
lessened cost of packing the fruit. 
Fifth— 
If the transportation companies can be 
induced or forced to give to the Florida 
citrus growlers the same ton per mile 
rate that the transcontinental lines now 
give to the California growers, 'their 
transportation charges can be cut in half; 
so that probably in ten years’ time, un¬ 
der the natural growth and development 
of the business, the Florida grower might 
be able to compete with the importer 
with only a sufficient amount of tariff to 
suit even the importer’s demand, or with¬ 
out any tariff at all. But that time cer¬ 
tainly is not yet, and certainly will not 
be for some years, although it is per¬ 
fectly reasonable that it may be in the 
near future. 
Respectfully, 
W. C. Temple. 
BRIEF OF L B. SKINNER AND J. C. CHASE. 
Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 17th, 1913. 
To the Honorable Committee on Ways 
and Means, House of Representatives, 
United States of America, Washing- 
ton } D. C .: 
Schedule C, Agricultural Products and 
Provisions. Paragraph 277: Lemons one 
and one-half cent per pound. Oranges, 
limes, grapefruit, shaddock or pomelos, 
tangerines, one cent per pound. 
The undersigned, L. B. Skinner, of 
Dunedin, Florida, citrus grower and ac¬ 
credited representative of Florida State 
Horticultural Society, (comprising over 
one thousand growers) Joshua C. Chase, 
citrus grower and member of’the firm of 
