SEVENTEENTH DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION. 807 



Use every honorable means to acquire a good opinion of the future possi- 

 bilities of our foothill regions, and use every reasonable effort to impress 

 others with the same favorable opinions. 



Let us each secure a little plot of ground and put our hands to the plow; 

 let us wield the spade, the hoe, and the pruning hook, and thus stimulate 

 industrious habits in our children, and induce others, by our example, to 

 go and do likewise. 



Increased acreage of orchards and cultivated lands means increased 

 production and increased values. Increased values will certainly bring us 

 a lower rate of taxation and better credit. The demand for our fruits is 

 already created; it remains for us to furnish the supply, and this supply 

 in turn will create a necessity for new industries; for increased facilities; for 

 transportation; and for an organization and unity of action in the market- 

 ing and preserving of the crops. In order to avail ourselves of the best 

 facilities for marketing, a fruit growers' union should be organized. In 

 order to preserve the fruits that are not adapted to transportation, fruit 

 driers and fruit canneries should be established. By thus emulating each 

 other in these industrious enterprises, and uniting in these organizations 

 for the better preservation and marketing of our crops, we shall need no 

 fictitious boom to secure returning prosperity, for prosperity must neces- 

 sarily result from well directed industry and unity of action and effort. 



