The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-04-05

reau OF Marketing is practical way
by which the legislature may aid i'll
this great work.
Florida produces a greater variety
| OF products than any other state,
which makes our marketing problems
| greater than any other SECTION. We
crates of perishahle products per an
r.'m, 10 gov RI i re Of our live stock
poultry and staple crops. We should
stabilize, the marketing Of these pro-
ducts, and distribution should be as
direct as possible. recommend full
and adequate support of the Market
ing Bureau. 'and fesl that by so doing
we will receive very practical results.
The work undertaken by the State
Live Stock Sanitary Board in cooper
alton with the national government .
looking to the eradication of cattle
tick. should continue. The state is
now practically shut off from all out
side markets for its cattle, by quar-
antine, and the eradication of the cat
tie tick is now an absolute necessity
il we would have access to outside
markets. Do we want our farmers
mercy of the buyers wholly in the
state of Florida? Ours is essentially
Ia producing state and markets for live
stock must be opened up to cur peo-
PIE, else industry will shrivel to one of
small proportions. AS fast as physi-
cal means for dipping cattle can be
provided, then in such locality we
must have laws insuring the dipping
of all cattle. BY this means eventu-
ally our state viii be rid of the cat
tie tick, pes which has cost the
PEOPLE of Florida untold sums of
money through its injury to our cat
tic Whether you favor dipping of
cate or not is now hardly pertinent
&c the issue. The action of other
states in their quarantine of Florida
renders the dipping of cattle abso-
lutely essential. and ther% is no other
alternative for us.
CONSERVATION OF NATURAL
RESOURCES
Under separate head | have dis
cEssed the importance of conserving
the game and fish of the state, and
Fave suggested the policies which T
believe will be of profit in preserving
to the people for all time these great
resources. There is another natural
resource. the conservation of which
must receive our attention. | refer
to the timber supply of Flotida AS
state. We have been specially rich
in timber. and We have seen it rap lily
depleted. and no policy whatever has
been attempted in the past regarding
its proper use or intelligent conser-
| eation. We are face to face with a
very increasing demand for timber
products, being an agricultural,
trucking and citrus fruit producing
section; on the other hand we arc
confronted with an ever decreasing
supply. 1t must suggest to us the
| Inauguration Of policy of conser,
walton as well as the encouragement
OF re-growth of forest through ade-
iquate reforestation. The national gov
eminent. through its forestry bureau
| is calling upon us for active coopera-
tiOn in this regard. | suggest the
passage of a law governing he assem-
10: the state to the acquisition and
maintenance by national government
o. national forests, guaranteeing to
them proper control and admins: ra-
ton of lands so acquired Second. /
favor the passage of law which will
limit the size of timber to be boxed by
the producers of naval stores. I favor
also the passage of law which VIII,
control, as far as possible, the spread
OF forest fires 1 also invite careful
study on behalf of your forestry com
mittee, of the question, which is a
vcxed one. looking to the creation of
a department which shall be charged
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