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Show flow Florida Oranges Stood the" 6'rceze. Jacksonville, March 8. At the annual meeting of the National Editorial Association Associa-tion held at Cincinnati a delegation was appointed ap-pointed to visit Florida and report to the Association their conclusions as to the effect of the recent freeze on the orange industry. The party returned to Jacksonville Friday night, and adopted and signed an official report, re-port, in which they say: "In a boundry of 600 miles, covering nearly 30,000 square miles of territory, at nearly every important station we have visited orange groves and examined tho state of the trees and the extent ex-tent of the damage done. The country traveled over comprises THE MAIN OEANGE-PBODUCTNG DISTBICT . Of the State. In many places the lemon and other less hardy fruits are killed. These trees, however, are of rapid growth, and will be speedily replaced by new trees. In many localities, where the orange groves are sheltered shel-tered in some degree by other tree3, the freeze was not sufficiently severe to kill the leaves on the trees. After giving specific details of other observations made at various points visited, the committee Say: "Our observations observa-tions led to the conclusion that the reports so unfavorable to the orange industry which followed the first were largely the result of a panic among orange-growers themselves, arising from insufficient information. The few weeks which havo since elapsed have changed the face of nature and lifted the cloud from Florida's great industry." |