108 THE MONTHLY BULLETIN. 



Whereas, The State Commission Market, through the able director, Colonel 

 Harris Weinstock, is endeavoring to evolve a plan by which the citrus crop of Cali- 

 fornia will be properly distributed so as to give each market all the fruit that cau be 

 used without glutting said market and so as to issue a fair return to the grower; 

 and 



Whereas, The convention recognizes the need of some such better distribution for 

 the industry as a whole and appreciates the efforts of the state administration and 

 particularly of the State Market Director, Colonel Weinstock, in his eliorts lo secure 

 a better distribution of the citrus crops of California, which would result in a better 

 return to the grower; and 1 



Whereas, The State Market Dii'ector proposes to call upon the shippers, buyers, 

 shipping companies and growers' associations to co-operate with him in bringing 

 about a more even distribution of the citrus crop ; and 



Whereas, Gluts and famines mean to the grower at times abnormally low prices 

 and at times high prices ; and 



Whereas, It is in the interest of the consumer that supplies shall bo regular and 

 steady, which means to him fair, average prices, instead of abnormally high and 

 abnormally low prices ; and 



Whereas, Gluts mean to the producer great wastage, to his serious loss, and 

 injury ; and 



Whereas, The State Market Director will, in the interest of producer and con- 

 sumer, strive to prevent gluts and famines in our eastern markets ; be it, therefore, 



Resolved, That a committee of seven be appointed by the State Horticultural 

 Commissioner to confer with the State Market Director for the purpose of evolving 

 a plan whereby the shippers may legally co-operate with the State to accomplish 

 this desired result and that this committee shall report to the next State Convention 

 of Fruit Growers, or at a special convention to be called by the State Horticultural 

 Commissioner on the joint request of the State Market Director and a majority of 

 said special committee. 



Whereas, Dr. A. J. Cook, our State Horticultural Commissioner, has for over a 

 quarter of a century rendered valuable service to the fruit industry of California ; and 



Whereas, During this period in which the industry has experienced its most 

 marked development, Dr. Cook, as a citizen, as professor of Pomona College, as 

 director of Farmers' Institutes under the University of California, and as Horticul- 

 tural Commissioner of the State, has labored with untiring zeal and unselfish devotion 

 in the interests of the fruit growers, making a contribution to the industry worthy of 

 the admiration and gratitude of every fruit grower in the State ; therefore be it 



Resolved, By the fruit growers assembled in this Forty-eighth State Fruit 

 Growers' Convention, that we hereby express to Dr. Cook our grateful appreciation 

 for his long, faithful and intelligent service in the interest of the fruit industry of 

 California ; be it further 



Resolved, That the Secretary be requested to send a copy of these resolutions to 

 Dr. Cook. 



Whereas, The Commissioner of Horticulture, Dr. A. J. Cook, has announced his 

 retirement from office in the near future ; and 



Whereas, It is of the greatest importance to the horticultural interests of the 

 State that a successor be appointed who has a wide knowledge of the horticultural 

 and agricultural industries, who appreciates the necessity of preventing the entrance 

 of insect and fungous pests into the State, and their spread within its borders, and 

 who will maintain the same high standard of practical and scientific efficiency which 

 has characterized the administration of Commissioner Cook ; therefore be it 



Resolved, That the State Fruit Growers' Convention urge the Governor of Cali- 

 fornia, the Honorable Hiram W. Johnson, to appoint Frederick Maskew. now Chief 

 Quarantine Officer of the State Horticultural Commission, as State Horticultural 

 Commissioner, believing that his long and efficient service through which he has 

 filled temporarily every position in the State Horticultural Commission, his practical 



