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A STATE SOCIETY. 



The State Horticiiltural Society has this to recommend it. It has 

 existed in nearl.v all the states for years, and snch (reneral use and 

 long continned service are always a considerable recommendation. It 

 always has its regnlar standing committees, and a paid secretary who 

 prepares for publication the transactions of each meeting. This pub- 

 lication is financed by the annual and life membei-ship dues. The com- 

 mittee at the Los Angeles C'onventioii favored this plan in its report 

 but referred approvingly to a more pretentious organization which 

 would include all departments of agriculture and would be represented 

 by different sections at the annual and other meetings. The objections 

 urged to these plans are that the state is very large, the expense in 

 time and money to attend the meetings would be great, and the conse- 

 quent danger of light attendance by fruit growers who are very busy 

 men might stand in the way of satisfactory success. 



FARMERS' PROTECTIVE LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA. 



A third plan was suggested also at Los Angeles and warmly advo- 

 cated by Mr. C. C. Teague. This suggestion is to amalgamate the 

 present convention system and the Farmers' Protective League of 

 ('alifornia. This League originated at the Forty-fourth State Frnit 

 Growers' Convention held at the TTniversity Farm. Davis, in June, 1914. 

 with the avowed purpose of fighting to tbe death the eight-hour amend- 

 ment. It is said to have over fifty thousand members and has raised 

 several thousand dollars, having a considerable sum in its treasury. 

 The management of the League is in the hands of a paid secretary, and 

 he issues a weekly paper in the interest of the farmers. This organiza- 

 tion has proved its virility in its successful fight against the menacing 

 eight-hour law. 



The telling work of a similar organization, the Citrus Protective 

 League of the South and the dynamic energy already displayed by the 

 Farmers' Protective League of California are thought to give reason 

 to hope that coupled with the present State Fruit Growers' Convention 

 forces it might be a mighty power for good in our state. The League 

 has proved that it can handle questions that the present convention 

 forces might hesitate to attack. 



Each of these proposed organizations is worthy our best thonght 

 and will certainly receive the careful consideration of the committee. 



In conclusion I wish to say that the urgent need of practical agri- 

 culture today in California as elsewhere is cooperation, the wider the 

 better. Cooperation will only come as confidence is gained through 

 association. God speed every effort that promotes organization in all 

 agricultural endeavor. — A. J. C. 



Uniform Horticultural Laws. — The writer was invited to Oregon 

 to attend a conference called by Governor West of that state to consider 

 a horticultural law which might possess all the excellencies of the 

 present laws now operating in the several states and be sufficiently 

 elastic that it might b(^ adopted by all the west coast states with their 

 varying conditions. Our own laws with slight but important changes 

 would, I think, be entirely satisfactory; indeed, they are very efficient 

 as they are, without any change. To unify the service and eliminate 

 the diverse quarantine orders the county horticultural commissioners 



