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Mr. Hart—I did not. They have 
another trouble that looked to me very 
much like 'blight but when I asked about 
this tree or that tree that was suffering 
from it, they told me it was caused by 
gophers. Mr. Chase, who is one of the 
largest growers in California, told me it 
cost him $1,000.00 a year to fight goph¬ 
ers. 
Question—Why is it necessary to put 
the extra layer of oranges on top as you 
spoke of a few minutes ago? 
Mr. Hart—It is to make a full box. 
They claim that unless they pack very 
full the fruit gets into the market loose. 
In going through the fruit districts in 
Chicago 1 , I noticed the fruit coming from 
California showed full boxes. 
Mr.-Did they nail down 
the head at the center ? 
Mr. Hart—No, only at the two end's. 
Mr.-Mr. Chase has been 
introducing a bulge pack similar to the 
California pack. His man at Sanford 
started it first at Sanford. You know the 
pack I mean, do you not? 
Mr. Tabor—Did vou find out what 
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stock those trees were budded on, the 
ones that showed the gum disease more 
prevalent ? 
Mr. Hart—I do not think that the 
stock, so far as I could tell makes much 
difference because the disease is up above 
the bud or in the limb, so that so far as 
I could learn the stock made very little 
difference. 
Mr. Stevens—Have they a choice of 
stock ? 
Mr. Hart—They are getting seeds of 
sour oranges from this country and pre¬ 
fer the sour stock 
Mr. Tabor—Is it true in Florida and in 
Cuba that trees budded on lemon stock 
show gum disease much more than sour? 
Mr. Hart—I am not an authority on 
that. I have not had enough to do with 
the rough lemon stock to know of my 
own knowledge, but I have had exper¬ 
ience enough to make me dislike it, and I 
do not think I shall ever put any more 
in my grove. 
Mr. Quinby is present, and undoubt¬ 
edly he can answer a lot of questions that 
I cannot, and I think you had better ask 
him to talk a little. 
Mr. Gaitskill—Just a moment. Tell us 
before you go what they have out there 
in the line you have been talking about 
that is better than what we have that 
could be adopted here. 
Mr. Hart—I think the belt system of 
carrying the fruit along for grading will 
be adopted by a good many of the larger 
growers. It would not do where extreme 
care is taken, because the fruit is going 
along pretty rapidly, and if they miss a 
No. 2 or 3, it goes into- the No. i fruit. 
I do not think their nailing machine 
would answer for our boxes, because we 
strap ours while they only nail a little 
piece across each end of the cover, which 
is done when the cover is put on. They 
have a little device for holding the paper 
wrappers which they all use. It simply 
holds the paper in the tray when you are 
packing and keeps it from blowing about. 
They also use a “nail stripper” that is a 
help. There are small devices like that, 
some of which I have adopted and some 
I cannot. I am not the one to pass on the 
general packing-house outfit for the 
larger growers of the State, being only 
a small grower and requiring a totally 
different arrangement. 
