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glutted. Every dealer in the town had 
his store loaded from cellar to garret, 
but the fruit kept piling in and piling 
in, and the dealers lost more heavily 
than did the growers here. The rec¬ 
ords will show that by our Association 
holding their fruit on the trees, they 
gave the market a chance to clear up. 
Do you suppose a man loaded with 
your green stuff is going to give what 
the good fruit is worth? By the middle 
of January we should have had a good 
market at profitable prices, but as it 
was, it was the middle of March before 
we got a market. We shipped fifty 
per cent, more oranges in March than 
we did in December, but we realized 
more money than any of the gentlemen 
who were in such a hurry to get their 
fruit in. Of course, if there had been 
a freeze, that would have been the end 
of it. 
The president admonishes me that I 
have encroached upon your time, and I 
thank you for your attention. 
