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ists. A larger proportion of young trees than ever before will bear 

 fruit tliat will be a factor in the market. 



2. A more complete knowledge and hence better control of in- 

 sects and diseases will again swell the product, because of more 

 trees that will bear more and better fruit. 



3. The better transportation facilities referred to above make it 

 easier to supply all markets in years of small production in certain 

 sections, thus tending to reduce the price. 



4. Another very important factor is the probable increase of 

 labor on the Pacific slope, due to the opening of the Panama 

 Canal. These states have not developed as they might because of 

 lack of workmen. I^To doubt they decided wisely against Asiatic 

 labor. The major portion of the large number of immigrants that 

 have come to this country in the last half -century have settled east 

 of the Mississippi River. For such to journey across the continent 

 from our eastern seaports meant nearly as large expenditure as to 

 bring them from their homes across the sea. With the opening of 

 the Panama Canal, an immigrant from Southern Europe can reach 

 the Golden Gate at an expenditure of about ten dollars more than 

 it costs to reach the ports of Boston or ISTew York, In view of these 

 facts, and with the climate of the Pacific slope — not dissimilar 

 to that in the native country of the immigrant — there would seem 

 to be little doubt that after the close of the war California and her 

 sister states will absorb an increasing niimber of the immigrants 

 to this country, thus enabling them to increase their planting as 

 well as their production. An additional fact should not be lost 

 sight of in this connection — that such migration will mean an 

 increased scarcity of labor in the East, in view of which men 

 should carefully consider extending to too great an extent their 

 operations here. 



The chief factor in successful orcharding would seem to be a 

 wide distribution of the product. This can only be obtained at a 

 moderate price; for the great consumers of the products of our 

 orchards are not families of great wealth, but those of the artisans, 

 obtaining only a fair wage. 



