PROCEEDINGS OF FORTY-SECOND CALIFORNIA 

 STATE FRUIT GROWERS' CONVENTION. 



December 11 to 13, 1912. 



FIRST DAY— MORNING SESSION. 



Fresno, California, December 11, 1912. 



The convention was called to order by Dr. A. J. Cook, State Com- 

 missioner of Horticulture. 



Mr. E. 0. Essig, secretary of the State Commission of Horticulture, 

 acted as secretary. 



Miss L. A. Cauthard acted as official stenographic reporter. 



Dean G. R. E. McDonald of Fresno opened the meeting with an 

 invocation. 



President Cook. We will now have the address of welcome by the 

 mayor of the city of Fresno, Hon. Alva E. Snow. 



ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 



By Mayor Alva E. Snow, Fresno. 



I want to sav to vou that conventions of the state fruit growers mean 

 a great deal to every community where such conventions are called. 

 The benefits to be derived from them are not confined to the particular 

 locality where such a convention is held, but is state-wide. This locality, 

 comprising as it does a large territory practicallj'- in the center of the 

 State of California, and having greatly diversified fruit orchards, is 

 especially interested in this convention, and when I see such subjects 

 as are printed in this programme to be discussed by such men as you 

 have selected therefor, we consider ourselves especially favored. 



The benefits, however, to be derived locally from this convention will 

 not be confined, I assure you, Mr. Chairman, to those people who are 

 fortunate enough to attend any and all of your sessions, but your doings 

 and sayings here will be spread generally throughout the county by 

 means of our Fresno press and read with great profit and interest by 

 our citizens. I hope while you are here you will be able to take the 

 time to visit our extensive vineyards, orange and lemon groves and 

 orchards. They are very extensive and will interest you. 



By the time your convention is over I hope our State Commissioner 

 will have devised some means of exterminating all the bugs in this 

 community. The people of this county a short time ago assisted in this 

 respect, or to some extent at least, by their votes in exterminating all 

 the "bug juice" outside of the incorporated town. 



There is a bug that was let loose in this community about two months 

 ago, which we have nourished very carefully. It has become very 

 prolific ; it has spread as far as Tulare in this short time and is making 



