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an honest dollar Eor themselves, and you can not blame thorn, and there- 

 fore it is so vitally necessary that industries as large as these are and 

 can be made, .should be properly protected, and they can not be 

 protected by law. It can only be done by mutual cooperation. 



The raisin industry in 1915 brought into this state over $15,000,000. 

 Our company alone handled over :j<12,000,000. The maximum of 

 business done through any concern will minimize expenses and make 

 the maximum of profits. Now, is there any way that the raisin grower 

 can get rid of this by-product ! The raisin industry is some industry 

 to the state, and I will further say that I would not care how much it 

 increased in a natural way of increase. I believe that we could take care 

 of it and get rid of the product, but if we are forced to have an 

 unnatural increase all in a minute, there is nothing that could stem that 

 tide of destruction. If the by-product of the Tokay grapes and the 

 Malaga shipping grapes and the second-crop Muscat grapes and all 

 the other varieties of the sweet wine grapes is turned into raisins and 

 sold in competition with our good Muscat raisins, all must fail. 



In all my arguments I have not referred to the saloon, the whiskey 

 or beer industries in any manner, shape or form. I have worked and 

 fought for the three branches of the viticultural interests, because the 

 three are one and you can not separate them. If we can be protected 

 by law so that we can do business undisturbed we can invite our Eastern 

 friends, as we have done, to come here and raise raisin and wine grapes. 

 I am fighting for the raisin industry and 1 want to develop it in the 

 future. 



You can plant your hills and your valleys to raisin grapes as long 

 as it is done gradually, as long as our advertising and salesmanship and 

 educational work will keep this 100,000,000 people chewing up raisins. 

 I believe that I can be prophet enough to say that the product can be 

 marketed at good, fair prices, but you must remember the by-product, 

 which endangers the industry. I can take your Tokay culls and your 

 Malaga culls and all your other trash and make Valencias out of them 

 in ten hours from the green grape and put them on the market for 

 anything I can get because they arc a by-product. We are very soon 

 going to be overloaded with inferior material. The rain that came this 

 year will hurt us. It destroyed a part of our crop and hurt the quality 

 of all. Over all the United States and the whole of Europe today, 

 people believe we are raising a fine quality of raisin. 



We have, as you know, most of you, I presume, three kinds of raisins : 

 the Muscat, which is the largest in volume. It weighed something over 

 90,000 tons last year. We had about 22,000 or 23,000 tons of Thompson 

 Seedless, and our crop of Sultanas weighed 6,000 or 7,000 tons. 



1 woidd warn the producers, who have gone crazy on the planting 

 of Thompson Seedless grapes because, for the last year or two prices 

 have been higher on account of the unforeseen conditions in Europe. 

 I would warn the state not to continue planting Thompson Seedless, 

 because the minute the war is over in Europe the Greek currants and 

 the Smyrna seedless can be sold in New York for half the money you 

 get for your raisins in California ; and the minute that condition exists 

 your prices will automatically g-o down or you can not sell your product 

 at all. I am only desirous of warning you because I see it. We will 



