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...immodest after all. It includes one "probably" and one "perhaps," and says nothing at all about the Bussey Institute, the graduate school of arts and sciences, the glass flowers, the recent gratifying football experience with Yale, and the permanent rustication of a young man who wafted a specimen of citrus fruit at Rudy. If this appeal does not make graduates loosen up, they have no sense of relative values and no dollars for absolute worth. Boston Herald...
...hawking Rio Grande valley land through the Wisconsin back country. The Wisconsin Board claimed that the Texas land was no good, that it had been misrepresented by its boosters. When the Board found that its own secretary, John L. Newman, had defied its edict by purchasing a ten-acre citrus farm in the forbidden valley, it promptly discharged...
...property had been destroyed in the campaign, much of it needlessly; 2) $6,000,000 had been spent on eradication which, if done efficiently, should not have cost more than $1,500,000; 3) "bugologists,'' by their loose talk, "have done more damage to the Florida citrus industry than the bugs...
American Water Works & Electric Co.. Inc. (Pears, prunes and citrus fruit from two large orchards in California's Sacramento Valley. Total land holdings in this region: 8,000 acres): $7,658,234 as against...
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...