Show HARD ON FLORIDA FRUIT MEN The Florida fruit raisers ar are certainly entitled to sympathy About twenty years ago a large area area was covered with orange trees all heavily loaded w with fru fruit t and the expectation was that a bumper crop would be harvested But ut a frost frostI I came that n t only onty destroyed the fruit but killed I the trees Then the people moved south to a point below where any serl serious us frost had ever been i known n planted new orcha orchards s and just when the trees were ready to begin bearing a second frost frostI came cam and killed the tre trees s. s Then it was vas found that the everglades possessed about the richest soil soH in inthe inthe the world that the only e was that a rim al' al around und them prevented their being drained drained- Then dredges were set at work cutting this rim and draining the big waste It was moreover extensively exten exten- adv advertised that no frost had ever eyer been known south of a line that run east an and west would cross Lake in the c center ritel Then oranges leme ons limes grapefruit bananas and pineapples were planted in millions of trees It was advertised moreover that on that ar area a all the sugar needed b by bythe the country could be raised and altogether the pic- pic had an enchantment without a parallel I Now the news is that through the hurricane i that has just swept that region the loss to orange growers alone will be The in Oklahoma feel that the persecutions of their ancestors have be been n avenged v ng |