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commenced the season was to give low 
prices, and they gave us to understand 
conditions would not allow high prices. 
The commission men have been doing 
their very best to make a good record 
this year, and they have made a record 
they would not have made if it had not 
been for the exchange. Whatever the 
exchange has done in the way of prices, 
even if -it should turn out that they have 
not done as well as the people outside, 
certainly the exchange has done a good 
thing for the shippers of the exchange 
through stimulating the efforts of the 
commission men. 
Mr. Temple: You heard in the course 
of Mr. Burton's remarks a statement of 
a fact that has come before this body pre¬ 
viously at this meeting; that is, the laws 
of California that prevent practically the 
possibility of shipping into that state a 
disease or insect that might gain a hold. 
They carry it to such an extent that you 
cannot ship a kumquat into California 
without going through all kinds of pro¬ 
cedure. 
I was there for three years and wanted 
to have a grapefruit that was fit to eat, 
and had a box shipped to me from Flor¬ 
ida. The first box didn’t show up, and 
kept on not showing up, and I finally got 
a letter from some inspector saying that 
if I would come down and pay the fumi¬ 
gation fees on that box of fruit, which 
amounted to $3.00, he would give me 
what was left of it. He said it was af¬ 
fected with a good many different kinds 
of scale—more than we ever heard of in 
Florida. I told him to go and eat that 
grapefruit himself. 
Now, I wish you would join in with 
the legislative committee and formulate 
a resolution in some way, and call on the 
State Legislature to pass laws similar to 
those now in California. Mr. Burton 
says California is sending oranges and 
lemons into this State. Their lemons are 
good, but they have some weird diseases 
out there that we don’t want to get. We 
have troubles enough of our own without 
running the risk of importing any. 
They are so exacting with us that it is 
time we ourselves should grow suspicious. 
You know what the old farmer’s advice 
is. “When you swap horses, examine the 
other fellow’s horse where he examines 
yours, and you will find the blemish.” 
Prof. Hume: I am very certain that 
this society is willing to join right in with 
them on this line. I am certain the so¬ 
ciety is willing to give it carte blanche 
along that very line. 
Mr. Burton: Let me tell you some of 
the experiences along the Pacific Coast in 
that connection. As Mr. Temple states, 
you can hardly carry a man there from 
Florida unless he goes through a course 
of fumigation. 
When the Florida delegation of grow¬ 
ers was in California last year, one of the 
Boards of Trade gave them some kind of 
a “blowout” and one of the Florida mem¬ 
bers presented them with a box of Florida 
Valencias for the occasion. They were 
brought into the board room and passed 
around. One of the most critical of the 
Board members came to me and said 
“How many more of those oranges are 
there?” I told him I didn’t know. He 
said “If they don’t eat them all, burn up 
