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DISCUSSION. 
Ml. Penny—I make a motion that the 
California committee be requested to 
furnish a report to our Secretary so 
that it may be published in the proceed' 
ings of the Society. 
Dr. Richardson—You have heard the 
motion, which is to the effect that the Sec¬ 
retary of the Society be instructed to ask 
the Orange Growers’ Society for copy of 
the report of the California Committee 
with the idea of copying it, or such por¬ 
tions of it as the Secretary and Executive 
Committee may deem wise, in our print¬ 
ed journal. I presume that is the way you 
wish the motion put, Mr. Penny? 
Motion seconded and passed. 
Mr. Hart—I want to bring up the mat¬ 
ter of this trip to California before we go 
on to the next topic. On this trip, the 
greatest benefit I received was contact 
with the men who made up the party. 
They are men who are successful in the 
line of work they followed. Now, I want 
to urge upon the members of this Asso¬ 
ciation the importance of their going to 
Tampa to attend that meeting* there. It 
seems to me that the psychic moment 
for organization has arrived. Of course 
organization will not make returns of $2 
or $3 a box for poorly packed and poorly 
grown oranges, yet where fruit is prop¬ 
erly handled the grower will get better 
returns for his money invested, his work 
and trouble in growing the fruit and will 
not feel that orange growing is so much 
a venture but more of a legitimate busi¬ 
ness. I hope that every orange grower, 
in fact, everyone interested 1 in Florida and 
her future prosperity will attend the 
meeting and help in the work, and I think 
it will be a mistake if the orange growers 
especially, do not do so. 
Dr. Richardson—I most heartily agree 
with Mr. Hart. I feel strongly every word 
said in my address last night. I feel that 
the time is upon us now when we should 
demand and get our rights. This paper 
that has been read is of vast importance. 
It shows us what a small body of mien, 
comparatively speaking, have been able 
to do with the railroad situation, and this 
small body of men have prevailed upon 
the State Commerce Commission to save 
us a great many thousand dollars. If we 
all combined, what might we not ac¬ 
complish ? Our savings would mount up 
into the millions in a short time. 
This Orange Growers’ Association is, as 
I understand it, still in an embryonic state. 
There was a meeting called in Tampa 
some two or three months ago for the 
purpose of organization. The organiza¬ 
tion was not completed at that time. We 
decided that a committee should go to 
California and spy out the land and come 
back and report on the 1st of June to 
another meeting at which all orange 
growers and all men interested in horti¬ 
cultural and agricultural matters could 
come and be welcome. We hope you will 
all come; as a citizen of Tampa I invite 
you and as a member of this Society and 
as its President I urge upon you to come 
to that meeting. It did me good to go 
to the preliminary meeting. Mr. Hart 
says it did him good to be associated 
with men of their calibre, and I am sure 
Mr. Hart will permit me to say that it did 
them srood p e associated with Mr. 
Hart. No thanks are necessary sir, I am 
sure there are no growers in the State 
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