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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
11. 
Care in picking, washing, grading, 
packing and all work connected with pre¬ 
paring fruit for market is of greater im¬ 
portance than speed. 
12 . 
Every doubtful orange is a cull. 
13 - 
Citrus fruits should remain in this 
packing-house to cure at least thirty-six 
hours. 
14 - 
Pack true to grade, size and equality, 
and so that when the cover is put on the 
fruit will be tight in the box. 
15- 
Each packer must put his initials or 
number on every box he packs; also grade 
and number of fruit in the box. Cus¬ 
tomers will be requested to send us the 
packer's mark on every box badly packed, 
so that the packer can be held responsi¬ 
ble. 
16. 
The W. S. Hart brand must be known 
as an honest brand. 
17 - 
No excuse is a good one for careless¬ 
ness or waste of time. 
18. 
All persons, both casual visitors and 
help, must bear in mind that this is a 
place of business and not for loafing, long 
stories or gossip; nor must visitors divert 
the attention of the help from their work 
for long at any time. 
No one but the undersigned has au¬ 
thority to change these rules. 
W. S. Hart. 
He who knows it all and resents in¬ 
struction, is hopelessly ignorant, a dis¬ 
appointment to himself and vexing to 
others, the last to be employed when help 
is scarce, and the first to go when it be¬ 
comes plenty. 
By F. G. Sampson. 
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: 
When I learned of my appointment on 
your Citrus Packing and Shipping Com¬ 
mittee, I wondered what I could say at 
all worth while, but from shape of mar¬ 
ket the past season, it does seem as if 
the time were right now when we should 
take counsel together for the bettering of 
conditions. We can start with the fact 
that if we are calculating to hold any 
position worth while in the markets, we 
shall be obliged to adopt the most im¬ 
proved methods all the way through from 
growing to marketing our fruit. The 
citrus plantings in California, Porto Rico, 
Cuba, Arizona, and Mexico are enormous 
and add to that the yearly planting in 
Florida makes an increasing supply that 
leaves no possible room for profit, for 
anything but the best work of which we 
are capable. The production of all other 
kinds of fruit is year by year being 
brought to greater perfection in quality 
and attractiveness, and any orange to get 
preference over other kinds of fruits must 
be both good to look at and to eat. Flor¬ 
ida does produce such fruits; but those 
