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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
four commission men. There were sixty- 
five boxes out of the car I opened my¬ 
self personally, and out of the sixty-five 
boxes there was not a single decayed or¬ 
ange. I don’t suppose out of the whole 
car there were forty decayed oranges. 
We did not wash the fruit, but we used 
the clippers distributed by the society last 
year and kept them sharp, and every man 
who went into the grove or packing 
house, wore gloves. Every man’s finger 
nails were kept short and protected. The 
result was a saving of about 15 per cent, 
in decayed fruit. 
It was my fruit that was chosen for 
the Taft banquet at Atlanta. They 
searched all over the city to get fruit 
they thought was good enough, and fin¬ 
ally purchased twenty-eight boxes of my 
fruit for that occasion. 
