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lature, which will make the compensation provisions of the Roseborry law com- 

 pulsoi'y on the employers of labor, whereby farmers will be compelled to carry heavy 

 insurance to avoid bankruptcy under contingencies occasioned by such legislation ; 

 and that the Roseberry law and kindred legislation are based on the mistaken theory 

 that all employers of labor can add the cost to the selling price of their products, 

 thereby assessing the tax especially against the business of the counti'y ; and which 

 from the nature of things bears an opposite economic relation to the business and 

 manufacturing interests, being compelled to sell in world's markets without regard 

 to the cost of production, a fact which will cause the larger part of cost of com- 

 pensation liability to be absorbed by depreciating land values ; and that such legis- 

 lation unnecessarily and unjustly disturbs the relations existing between farmers 

 and farm laborers, neither of whom have agitated in favor of such laws ; that it is 

 the sense of this State Fruit Growers' Convention that accident compensation laws, 

 to be just, should operate to place the burdens of the same on society in general ; 

 hence, employees should bear a just share of the liability ; and that we hereby 

 petition the legislature to omit farmers from the class of emploj^ers that are to be 

 brought under compulsory compensation ; and that a committee of three be appointed 

 by the chair to present this request to the legislature of California at its next session. 



Examinations for Horticultural Commissioners. 



Be it Resolved, That this convention, being keenly alive to the diverse conditions 

 of soils and climates of California, and their corresponding variety of orchard and 

 field crops, rendering qualifications largely local in character rather than general ; 

 that a knowedge based on years of experience and wide observation touching on these 

 local or individual county conditions, which being of the first importance, this con- 

 vention deems it inexpedient and unwise to make radical changes in the present 

 system. 



Resolution of Thanks. 



Your Committee on Resolutions wishes to give an expression of thanks for the 

 cordial feeling shown the convention on the part of the citizens of Fresno, as follows : 



Be it Resolved, That the thanks of the convention are hereby tendered to the 

 municipality for the use of the City Council Chamber as a meeting place ; 



To the enterprising citizens of Fresno for the automobile ride on Thursday after- 

 noon, December 11th ; 



To the daily papers of Fresno, who have reported the convention fully in their 

 columns, thus giving wide publicity to our deliberations ; 



To the Fresno Chamber of Commerce for favors extended ; 



For the many individual courtesies extended the visiting delegates by the good 

 people of Fresno ; 



To the nurserymen of the vicinity for their efi'orts in our behalf ; and 



To the efforts of Mr. Schell in arranging the many details of this convention. 



In Memoriam. 



Whereas, Through the death of County Horticultural Commi.ssioner A. R. 

 Meserve, the horticultural officers and members of this Commission have suffered a 

 deep, personal loss ; therefore, be it 



Resolved, That they express their sense of this affliction by causing this resolution 

 to become a part of the record of this convention, and by sending copies of it to the 

 different members of his family. 



Fkesno, Cal., December 12, 1912. 



Whereas, Through the death of County Horticultural Commissioner Linden 

 Bree, the horticultural officers and members of this Commission have suffered a 

 deep, personal loss ; therefore, be it 



Resolved, That they express their sense of this aflliction by causing this resolution 

 to become a part of the record of this convention, and by sending a copy of it to his 

 mother. 



