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to take advantage of every particle of 
useful information that can be obtained. 
We are here this week to test theories ; 
and if they are not in accord with fact, to 
have them brushed ruthlessly away as 
chaff. We are here to be helpful to one 
another, that we may be the better able 
to see our own way clearly. 
DISCUSSION. 
Prof. Hume: I believe I voice the sen¬ 
timent of those who are best informed 
in the matter when I say that never in 
the history of the State has there been a 
time when the Experiment Station of the 
University is so nearly filling the place 
that it should fill in the State. This Cit¬ 
rus Seminar was one of the most inter¬ 
esting meetings I have ever seen in the 
State of Florida, and while I do not 
know that it is the intention to make it 
an annual affair, I sincerely hope it is, 
and I am sure anyone would be much 
benefited by taking advantage of the op¬ 
portunity that is offered them. 
It is a strange thing to me that the 
mere act of putting a man on the program 
is to' ensure his staying away. If we 
were at all superstitious, we would say 
that putting a man on the jprogram is a 
sure sign that he won’t be at the meet¬ 
ing. However, on the subject “Methods 
of Handling Citrus Groves” we are luck¬ 
ier than usual, for we have two members 
on the committee present, Mr. Williams 
and Mr. Thompson. 
