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also be continued, and meet with this Transportation Committee on 

 the twenty-third of December to take the matter up and talk it over, 

 and try to persuade the commission on transportation to act for us and 

 help us. 



EVENING SESSION. 

 Dr. Cook, presiding'. 



Chairman Cook. We will now have the rei)ort of the Committee on 



Resolutions. 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS. 



To ihe Convention: Your Committee ou Resolutions to wliom was referred the 

 matter of preparing a report on the measures embraced in the address of the State 

 Horticultural Commissioner, dealing with the various phases of California horticul- 

 ture and pomology, submits the following : 



The White Fly Quarantine. 



Be it resolved hy the California Fruit Growers in Convention assembled in Fresno, 

 California, Deeemher 11-13. 1912, That we concur in the recommendations of the 

 State Horticultural Commissioner that the sweeping quarantine against the extreme 

 southern states and Texas making it prohibitive that all plants, scions, cuttings, 

 grafts, general nursery stock coming from North and South Carolina, Georgia, Flor- 

 ida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, to enter California, be modified to 

 include only such plants, scions, cuttings, grafts and general nursery stock known as 

 host plants of the white fly ; that in cases of non-host plants being transported, the 

 same shall first be defoliated and submitted to disinfection by fumigation, spraying, 

 or any other process of cleaning as shall be fully and explicitly prescribed by the 

 California State Horticultural Commission. Said rules and regulations so laid down 

 to always be in harmony with the provisions of the Federal quarantine law and the 

 rulings of the Federal Horticultural Board at \Yashington. 



Agricultural Education. 



Whereas. The fruit growers of California, recognizing the great importance of 

 agricultural education for our boys and girls ; 



Resolicd. That we endorse the following suggestions made by Prof. J. B. Cor- 

 coran of the Fresno High School, and that copies of this resolution be forwarded to 

 Dean Hunt of the University of California and to the State Superintendent of 

 Public Instruction : 



1. That state colleges require courses in education that will consider agriculture 

 as a fundamental in education, and also courses that will familiarize those with 

 l)ractice in agriculture who are to teach in the high school on the grounds that it is 

 fundamental and general, which will intellectualize farming to those who are to 

 teach in high schools, who need a broader education rather than a so-called higher. 



2. That in high schools where subjects are required, that agriculture l^e among 

 them: or, if agriculture is not required, that none be required: and that colleges 

 other than agricultural receiving state aid be asked to grant credit for work done 

 in agriculture in high schools, which will result in a wider understanding and sym- 

 pathy to develop between other callings, or so-called professions, and this most fun- 

 damental calling, on which all depend. 



3. That all state normal schools that train teachers for the rural schools be 

 asked to require as thorough a preparation in elementary agriculture, gardening, 

 domestic science and such other vocational subjects as will enable those who are 

 to handle children in the first eight years of school life, to train children toward 

 their environment, instead of away from their environment, in such a way that 

 farming will be looked upon as a profession as well as a vocation, and in such a 

 way that children will, on entering the high school, be interested in and care to 

 pursue farming as well as medicine, law and the other professions that they are now 

 most likely to choose on entering high school. 



