And we have to battle with them, all the time.

And when we spray with the pumping engine, the sand is certain to get into the engine and ruin it.

And when we--" "I had no notion that--" "No Northerners have," she said, warming to her theme.

"I wish I could set some of them to scrubbing orange-trunks with soap-and-water and spraying acre after acre, as we do, in a wild race to keep up with the pests, knowing all the time that some careless grove owner next door may let the rust mite or the black fly get the better of his grove and let it drift over into ours.

Then there's always the chance that a grove may get so infected that the government will order it destroyed,--wiped out ....