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the State. We had these same remedies 
recommended right along for making 
them bear. After they had all been tried 
out, they did not bring results that were 
really worth while. If we have a variety 
not normally fruitful under our climatic 
and weather conditions, we had better 
discard it. We have to give them enough 
care anyway. Take some of the varieties 
of mangoes; the one that has been ad¬ 
vertised more than any other, is the 
Mulgoba. I know where there are hun¬ 
dreds of trees of them, and the whole 
amount of fruit the Mulgoba has pro¬ 
duced would not pay for what the trees 
cost in the nursery. It is simply a non¬ 
fruiting variety under our conditions. 1 
am told it is quite a non-fruiter in India, 
and yet one year the tree Professor Gale 
had, bore a very large crop, and with no 
abnormal conditions, so far as we could 
see. We do not know what it is that is 
really the primary determining factor in 
making these trees bear. Nothing ab¬ 
normal was done to Professor Gale's 
tree, and yet it produced a large crop of 
fruit, but only that one year. 
Mr. Robinson: I do not mean to say 
that Mr. Reasoner was doing this as a 
general practice, but he had a few trees 
from which he had never procured fruit, 
and he tried to force them abnormally 
into bearing. 
Mr. Marks: Do you think it possible 
that the ground might be too moist? The 
reason I say that is this; I am at Winter 
Haven, a high pine land country. In a 
grove there, there are about twenty-five 
or thirty mango trees, and every other 
year they carry a big crop. That grove, 
by the way, is well taken care of, and 
the regular orange tree fertilizer is used 
on them. Whether or not that is right, 
I cannot say, but judging by the results, 
it must be. 
Mr. Yothers: I want to talk to you 
about the weevil. About ten days ago 
I received a copy of the Experiment Sta¬ 
tion Record, which gave an account of 
Mr. Russell’s paper given before the 
Washington Entomological Society, in 
which he stated he had observed the wee¬ 
vil on the seeds of avocadoes sent in to 
him from Central America. I wrote to 
the chairman of the Federal Quarantine 
Commission and told him it would be 
advisable to bar them from this country 
because of the danger of introducing this 
weevil. It seems to me that the people 
of this State, and especially those around 
the Miami section, should take some in¬ 
terest in the matter, and if sufficient in¬ 
terest is shown they could probably get a 
Federal quarantine against them. We all 
know how serious this is, but it is not 
enough to say merely that it is serious. 
Mr. Yothers: I might say that the 
Bureau of Entomology has a man in 
Monticello now whose sole business is to 
investigate the insect pests which attack 
the pecan. Mr. Gill is the investigator, 
and if any of you have trouble with pe¬ 
can insects, he will be glad, I am sure, 
if you will write to him about it. 
Mr. Hamlin : I would like to ask if 
anybody in South Florida has ever grown 
pecans successfully, as a commercial ven¬ 
ture ? 
Professor Rolfs: Our President 
knows more about pecans than anyone 
else; I suggest that he answer it. ) 
Mr. Hiume: I would answer the ques- 
