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that you grow in California. In this country it is a new thing to the 

 people, but the earob tree is thousands of years old with us — not a new 

 thing at all with us, and it has been grown even in Europe for years. 

 Very few of you are aware of the fact that when Napolean marched up 

 into Russia his horses were all fed on carob crops, and the cavalry in 

 Malta is fed principally on the carob crops ; the horses used for the car 

 lines in Naples have for their principal food the produce of carob trees 

 and hundreds of ships loaded with the carob are sent out every year, 

 from Cypress, from the old island of Cypress, to England for animal 

 food. 



As already said, we have had thousands of years ' experience in agri- 

 culture in our little country of Palestine, and we Jews have had our 

 part in teaching the world. I am sure that from a scientific point of 

 view Palestine has not been exploited enough yet. We, as Mr. Chairman 

 just now said regarding California's great institution, we are engaged in 

 creating an institution, a Jewish agricultural experiment station, in 

 order to find out what the real agricultural pursuits of Palestine are. 

 The president of this station is one of the leading Jews in Chicago, and 

 this Jewish experiment station is supported by many contributions from 

 many of the leading and wealthy Jews of the world and particularly 

 America. And this is one reason more why we feel in Palestine we 

 ought to give every kind of information and assistance to hasten the 

 agricultural work in America, and as California and Palestine are very 

 similar in their agricultural conditions, we will be very glad to render 

 every kind of assistance we can. Dr. Himt said in his address that the 

 problem confronting California is great, and that the University of 

 California, the college of agriculture, deserves the support of every one 

 in this State. I am sure that it deserves the support of every citizen 

 of your State, and our Jewish experiment station, if ever you find it 

 necessary, hopes you will appeal to us for support. As I have told you 

 before we have something to learn from you, we of the old countries, 

 and I am sure there is still something to learn in Palestine for you, even 

 though you are twenty times as large as we are, and I hope that after 

 you have learned all there is you will be able here in California to do 

 twenty times as much. 



SOME ORCHARD SPRAYING PROBLEMS AND EXPERIMENTS. 



By W. W. BoNNS, Riverside, Cal. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: When your State Commis- 

 sioner invited me to address this convention some time ago. I accepted 

 the invitation with some apprehension regarding the suitability of my 

 place on the program. The agricultural and climatological conditions 

 of Maine and California are about as different as those of any two of 

 these United States can well be. Coming recently from the extreme 

 northeastern state of the Union, I questioned if I might have anything 



