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Can you not give us some assurance that the class of fruit allowed to come into 

 California last season will be kept out in the future? Unless you can, California 

 will be compelled to deal with the situation in a drastic manner, in order to protect 

 the hiph standards of the legislative act of 1915. 



Hoping to hear from you soon, and that you may be able to meet the situation 

 there, so that action on the part of this state will not be necessary, I am, 



Very truly yours, 



STATE COMMISSION OF HORTICULTURE, 

 By (Sgd.) Geo. P. Weldon, Chief Deputy and 



Acting State Commissioner of Horticulture. 



In repl}' to the above, ^Ir, Fletcher wrote as follows: 



Portland, Oregon, May 23, 1916. 

 Mr. Geo. P. Weldon, 



Acting State Commissioner of Horticulture, 

 Capitol Building, Sacramento, California. 



Dear Sir : Beg to acknowledge receipt of your favor under date of May 18th. I 

 am attaching hereto copy of a bulletin which we have issued today to all of the 

 shippers in the Northwest affiliated with the Northwestern Fruit Exchange. I am 

 quite confident that it will not be necessary for j-ou to take any drastic action on 

 shipments made by those affiliated with this Exchange. Also, I am sure that our 

 shippers in the different districts will be very glad to assist you and the growers 

 of your state in any way possible to keep the apple markets of your state in the 

 very best possible condition, and we realize that the only way this can be done 

 is by placing on those markets fruits of marketable quality. 



We feel confident that you intend to be thorough in your policing of these ship- 

 ments, and that no partiality will be possible. It would work a serious hardship 

 on our shippers if they are not permitted to make shipments of these scabby apples, 

 especially to California markets, when some of their competitors are exercising this 

 privilege. 



Last season there were some experiments conducted by shipping wormy apples 

 in crates. These experiments proved disastrous for the growers, shippers and everj-- 

 body else, and there is no possibility that there will be a repetition of this experi- 

 ment. I think the only fruit that the California authorities will have to watch 

 for carefully will be scabby apples from some of the Oregon districts. The 

 growers in the Hood River and Medford sections are making an heroic effort to 

 eliminate this scab, and we are hopeful that they will be successful this season, but 

 due to recent rains, just at the time when they should have been applying another 

 spray for the scab, there is some possibility that they have not been able to check 

 this disease entirely. We are trying to negotiate satisfactory disposition of any 

 scabby fruit coming into the hands of our shippers for sale to by-products plants. 

 We trust what we have done in answering your request for assistance is satisfactory. 

 If you have any other suggestions to offer, we will appreciate them. 



Very truly yours, 



NORTHWESTERN FRUIT EXCHANGE, 

 By H. G. Fletcher, Sales Manager. 



In tlfe bulletin which i\Ir. Fletcher mentions in his letter as being 

 sent to the members of the Exchange, the following statement is 

 made : 



*'We do not anticipate that it will be necessary for the Cali- 

 fornia Horticultnral Commission to draft any state laws pro- 

 hibiting the sale of such frnit in the California markets on 

 account of any action by the shippers atfiliated with the North- 

 western Fruit Exchange in refusing to honor this request, but 



