THE MONTHLY BULLETIN 



CALIFORNIA STATE COMMISSION OF HORTICULTURE. 



DEVOTED TO HORTICULTURE IN ITS BROADEST SENSE, WITH SPECIAL 



REFERENCE TO PLANT DISEASES, INSECT PESTS, AND 



THEIR CONTROL. 



Sent free to all citizens of the State of California. Offered in exchange for bulletins 

 of the Federal Government and experiment stations, entomological and mycological 

 journals, agricultural and horticultural papers, botanical and other publications of a 

 similar nature. 



A. J. CooKj State Commissioner of Horticulture Censor 



E. J. VosLER, Secretary State Commission of Horticulture Editor 



ASSOCIATE EDITORS. 



Geo. p. Weldon Chief Deputy Commissioner 



Harry S. Smith Superintendent State Insectary 



Frederick Maskew Chief Deputy Quarantine Officer 



Entered as second class matter December 29, 1911, at the post office at Sacramento, 

 California, under the act of July 16, 1S94. 



State Agricultural Association. — Our State Fruit Growers' Conven- 

 tions, good as they have been and valuable as has been their influence, 

 have been thought by some to lack coherence and power to influence 

 in such directions as marketing and legislation. These kindly criticisms 

 led to the appointment of a committee at the last State Fruit Growers' 

 Convention to take the matter under advisement and to report its 

 conclusions to the convention. A very able committee gave the subject 

 careful consideration and in its report suggested a State Horticultural 

 Society like that now in existence in most of the states. This organiza- 

 tion would hold an annual meeting, or upon occasion semi-annual meet- 

 ings, the work to be in charge of a paid secretary who would edit and 

 issue a report of the proceedings each year, the expenses to be borne 

 from the proceeds received for membership. The committee, however, 

 in its report favored and recommended a more comprehensive organ- 

 ization, an agricultural association, embracing every agricultural inter- 

 est of the state — really, a federation of all the present organizations, 

 like the Live Stock Breeders' Association, the Dairymen's Association, 

 the State Fruit Growers' Convention, the Vitieultural organizations, 

 the Beekeepers' Association, the Poultry Association, etc. The commit- 

 tee asked that the president of the convention appoint a committee of 

 seven, himself to be one of the number, to meet and formulate a course 

 of action providing for such an association. This report was unani- 

 mously adopted by the convention and later the following committee 

 was named: Messrs. H. J. Webber, C. B. Messenger, F. B. McKevitt, 

 G. H. Hecke, H. E. Van Norman, B. F. Rush and A. J. Cook. This com- 

 mittee met early in January. Dr. A. J. Cook was elected chairman and 

 Mr. C. B. Messenger secretary. The committee was unanimous in favor- 

 ing the federation plan and voted to call a meeting of all agricultural 

 organizations of the state at the Exposition Grounds, San Francisco, 

 February 22, 1915. Under such instructions the chairman sent out 

 invitations to the several organizations, to the press and to many indi- 

 viduals. On the 22d of February a goodly number met at the Inside 



