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nate them on the boxes as the different 
grades. We will make them so that the 
dealer may know the Florence from the 
brand on the box, and the Gondola and 
the Cat. The wrappers will all be the 
same. 
We have striven to get the very best 
paper we could buy, and another year we 
expect to have a much better grade than 
we have this year. We will have it all 
printed, and no fruit will be sent out of 
the Association without a printed wrap 
on it. 
Mr. Skinner: I thought somebody 
would cover the ground well, and I think 
Mr. Thompson has done it. 
Mr. Hart’s remark that it is hard to 
get your men not to get their high grade 
oranges too high, or the next grade too 
low, is a difficulty we are all up against. 
It seems to me that Mr. Thompson here, 
for the ordinary run of Florida fruit, has 
about fixed it. 
Now, this orange here has a slight 
blemish; it is not as big as a quarter of a 
dollar; it does not hurt the fruit in the 
least. 
I started the season with one pack a 
grade better than this. No fruit went into 
that pack that had anything on it like 
that at all; then we had a grade where 
they were all like this orange. But the 
dealers complained that they wanted to 
have the two grades together because 
they sold better, so we threw out the other 
grade; we didn’t have enough of them, 
anyway. 
I think the three grades might do. In 
Florida, however, we have the russet and 
the bright proposition, which they do not 
have in California. You cover that with 
your grades pretty well. This grading 
proposition has to be threshed out. I 
like Mr. Thompson’s samples here very 
much, and the methods he has explained. 
Mr. Hart: The point is, whether we 
can adopt a standard by which all fruit 
in Florida can be graded; something that 
every grower, every manager of an asso¬ 
ciation and the Citrus Exchange can all 
agree upon. It seems to me if we can do 
that, it is very desirable, indeed. To do 
that requires considerable hard work. 
There are quite a number of points that 
should be considered. 
I notice these russets in Mr. Thomp¬ 
son’s box. At Florence Villa they grade 
brights and russets in regular order; the 
russets, I understand are your third grade 
and you make two grades of russets. 
In sections where most of the fruit is 
bright, as it is on the East Coast, we must 
have three grades of brights there and I 
think two grades of russets. 
It seems to me that the only way we 
can arrive at anything that would ap¬ 
proach perfection, or give satisfaction, 
throughout the state will be to appoint a 
committee to handle this matter, to con¬ 
sider it and make recommendations to this 
Society. Perhaps we would not have 
time to do it at this meeting. 
Mr. Skinner: That is certainly true, 
and the grading that would fit this fruit, 
would not fit your fruit at all. 
Mr. Hart: On the East Coast, we 
have so few russets we never think of 
putting them with the brights. All along 
the Coast, we make a separate grade. 
A light blemish like the one on this or- * 
ange,would not cut it out of the second 
grade, in my case. A dark blemish like 
that, if it loked like a dark scar, would 
put the orange into the last grade, but 
if the scar of that kind was light, it would 
go in the second grade. Applied in my 
