Word: citrus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pests. "In April the Mediterranean fruit fly . . . worst fruit pest known, was found well established in central Florida. . . . Control operations involved 8,100,000 acres, producing 76% of [Florida's] citrus fruits . . . 580,000 boxes of citrus fruit, 3,400 bushels of vegetables, 7,100 bushels of non-citrus fruit were destroyed. In 1930 $15,500,000 will be needed for quarantine enforcement, inspection, research . . . the object is eradication...
Pleased with themselves last week were officials of two Florida fruit cooperatives. Theirs was the distinction of receiving from the Federal Farm Board the first allotment from its $150,000,000 loan fund. To Florida United Growers and Florida Citrus Growers Exchange the Board advanced...
Floridians last week insisted that the extermination of this pest was virtually complete, that Secretary of Agriculture Hyde should consider relaxing the federal quarantine. They accused their citrus-competitor, California, of exaggerating the fruit fly's destruction in Florida, of spreading false stories of fruit trees cut down, orchards obliterated...
Halterophera Capitata. The Board has done some preliminary relief work on the citrus fruit situation in Florida where the ravages of the Mediterranean fruit fly (Halterophera capitata) had created an acute local problem (TIME, May 6 et seq.). Two competing fruit cooperatives appealed for the Board's help. The Board sent them away with a promise of help after they had merged their efforts, eliminated duplication, become representative of all Florida fruit growers in trouble...
...they did resources for such an emergency. Congress had already appropriated $4,800,000 to control the spread of the fly in Florida, to exterminate it, i resident Hoover, at Secretary Hyde's suggestion, had spoken promisingly of the moral obligation" resting upon the U. S. to compensate Florida citrus growers for loss of property incident to the Federal program of destruction and quarantine...