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case, you could not say, “a blemish the 
size of a dime, or a quarter.” 
Suppose an orange is punctured and the 
skin around the punctured place, dies. The 
orange ripens up, but it has a good-sized 
scar. As the orange enlarges, the scar 
may become quite large and still not put 
it in the lowest grade; it may be an excel¬ 
lent No. i orange. That is the grade I 
would put it in, but .the Florence Villa 
people would probably put it in their low¬ 
est grade. That is one of the problems; 
just what will constitute defects which 
will put oranges in the different grades, 
and the number and kind of blemishes 
that will constitute the grades, 
I do not see how it will be possible to 
decide it at this meeting, but I think it 
would be a good plan to get it into the 
hands of a committee and let them work 
on it and see what is brought forth. 
Mr. Thompson: Any orange that has 
a defect on it that is greater than the re¬ 
quirements of our Cat brand, we put in 
the culls. We have plenty of culls, and I 
do not know of anything that has pleased 
me more than the recent news from Tam¬ 
pa that the management down there had 
made arrangements for the best solution 
of our cull crop in Mr. Duncan’s arrange¬ 
ment. 
Mr. Tabor: I move that a committee 
be appointed by the chair, to take up this 
proposition and give us their recommend¬ 
ations at our meeting a year from now. 
I coincide with Mr. Hart, and I guess 
many other members, in the opinion that 
this is something that requires very care¬ 
ful committee work, and a lot of it. I 
think we can spend half a day here and 
not arrive at a solution. 
Right now, Mr. Chairman, before such 
a thing is suggested, I waive my right 
of being appointed on that committee. 
Motion seconded and carried. 
Mr. Hume: I will appoint on that com¬ 
mittee; Mr. Skinner, Mr. Felt, Mr. Hart,. 
Mr. Burton and Mr. Thompson, five 
members. I believe that ought to cover 
the ground pretty well. I know it is not 
an advantage to have too large a com¬ 
mittee, but I think it is a question which 
should be discussed pretty thoroughly so* 
as to cover all of the interests involved. 
I don’t know whether you realize how 
hard it is to get a committee to come right 
up at the end of the year, but I believe in 
this committee we have a good working 
one, and I believe that a year hence they 
will have this thing in good shape for us. 
Mr. Thompson: Someone, I believe it 
was Mr. Williams, said to keep fruit 
picked ahead of the packers and allow it 
a chance to shrink. A short time ago we 
had an evening spent with Mr. Ramsey, 
the Government expert, and he said the 
experiments proved that the sooner we 
can get our fruit through the washer and 
into the boxes, the better it is for us. 
Mr. Williams: Don’t you think you 
ought to keep it two or three days until 
it limbers up a little? 
Mr. Hart: Mr. Ramsey, in his re¬ 
marks at New Smyrna, said something 
that surprised me greatly. It was brought 
up by the question as to whether keeping 
fruit for two or three days before ship¬ 
ping was best or not. I said that it had 
been my custom to hold my fruit until it 
had lost its rigidity; that I thought I 
could pack it closer and more safely in 
that way. 
Mr. Ramsey said in the shipments of 
fruit to Washington this year in their ex- 
