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are putting oul almonds again." Growers are doing the same thing 

 all over the state, because thej know almonds can be sold. We have 

 Learned how. We have employed the mosl experl salesmen. We 

 have established a selling agency which we are satisfied can handle all 

 we can produce, and handle them a1 a profil tn the growers. II' our 



i perative selling agency were ou1 of this business for one year, you 



would see us all offering almonds at a price that would spell rain. 



We haven't all the growers. Son no has said. "II' you can do so 



much why is it that yon have bu1 75 per cent of the producers?" 

 Well, it is the same reason that all the other associations do not have 

 them all. It is perhaps host that wo don't gel them all. We might 

 become monopolists. We are not trying to set extravagant figures. 

 We are trying to prevenl speculation and extortion in the marketing 

 of California almonds. Wo arc keeping pace with supply and demand 

 and we are going to gel a good figure when we can, but wo are not 



going to set the price so high that it will ho either burdenson r 



prohibitive. 



THE CALIFORNIA FARMER AND THE COLLEGE OF 



AGRICULTURE. 



By Thomas Forsyth Hunt, Dean of the Collegi ol Agriculture, University of Cali- 

 fornia, Berkeley. Cal. 



Mr. Weldon asked me to give an address here tonight on the College 

 of Agriculture and the California farmer. This I declined to do. hut 

 I agreed to talk about the California farmer and the College of Agri- 

 culture. It seemed to me that the California farmer was primary 

 and the College of Agriculture was simply secondary- 



It is not the purpose to expound any thesis, to uphold any principle 

 or urge any program. If, perchance, any suggestions are made, they 

 are such as grow out of the data presented. In other words, tin- data 

 here presented are for the purpose of giving some facts, or "near facts" 

 about the California farmer; to gain, if possible, a true picture of him 

 ami of his conditions. If. out of the facts certain conclusions arc 

 reached, this is not because data were collected to support such con- 

 clusions, but rather that the conclusions follow because of the conditions 

 found to exist. 



I say "near facts" because, in order to give you a picture of the 

 California fanner one must resort to statistics. Someone has said 

 that there are three kinds of lies, i.e., lies, blank lies, and statistics. 

 Anent statistics, our well-known friend, Edward Berwick, at a meeting 

 where the prohibition amendments wen/ being discussed, related the 

 following Limerick : 



"There \\ m ^ :i young lady from Skye, 



With a shape like a capital T ; 



She s;iici it's too bad, but then i can pad; 

 Which shows you how figures can Ho." 



Edward Everett Hale properly expressed it. when referring to 

 the savins that figures never lie, when he said that the fact was that 

 figures never tell the truth. This thoughl deserves some emphasis. 

 Statistics must not be taken too literally. It must be recognized that 



