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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
tablishment of fumigation houses and 
maintenance of quarantine inspection. 
We cannot hope that Cuba will be able 
to control the black fly. Such a thing is 
absolutely impossible. They had their 
chance to do a wonderful piece of work 
and lost it. I do not wish to place any dis¬ 
credit on the men who were in charge of 
this control work in Cuba. They had the 
interest and earnest desire to eradicate the 
black fly, but they never had the full au¬ 
thority to go ahead and take the stringent 
measures which were so needed. 
