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Show FROSTED ORANGES FROM CALIFORNIA Southern California had a big percentage per-centage of the orange and lemon crops frosted and dealers In those fruits have been shipping out the good and bad until the Los Angeles papers hare issued a warning, the Tribune of that city sayiug: The fact Is not to be disguised that the citrus growers of southern California Cali-fornia suffered henvv lo6seB by reason rea-son of the unprecedented temperature that was reached earlier In the season sea-son Beyond dotibl the lemon and orange proves werv subjected to Berl OUa Injury The return for the year will be cut down to the merest frac Hon of what they promised to be and what they should have been Such a visitation is not likelv to befall Call fomia for another quarter of a century cen-tury Next year and In the years xucoeedin the proves will produce with their accustomed abundance the best citrus fruits in the world. It Is natural that growers should seek to reduce their heavy losses as much as possible. It is to be question ed. however whether it is the part oi wisdom to ship damaged fruit to east em markets The frosted fruit is sold for what it Is. The price it brings is so low that It Is to be doubted whether the mi ger profit it affords can be regarded as compensation for the injury inflicted. inflict-ed. A prejudice against Southern California Cal-ifornia citrus fruits Is likely to be in stilled In thp minds of thousands of consumers who form their judgment on California oranges for the first time. ORdon has received some of the frozen fruit and has rejected the same, but where these frosted oranges or-anges gel on the market in large quantities they will make future Bales most difficult Southern California would do well to listen to the advice of its newspaper nnd dump the in jured fruit Into the ocean. |