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Holland l)ii]l) business in California, was in attendance at the meeting. 

 Mr. Ward has recognized the possibilities in growing wholesale quan- 

 tities of })ulbs which have in the past been imported from Holland. He 

 has chosen Humboldt County for his field of operations and is now 

 developing a business of considerable magnitude. Some excellent speci- 

 mens of California grown Holland bulbs were exhibited during the 

 convention and it is already safe to predict that a large share of the 

 bulb business that Holland has been doing with the nurserymen of 

 California will soon come to this state. — G. P. W. 



Conference of Cotton Producers and Importers. — A meeting of the 

 cotton producers of the Imperial Valley, the State Commissioner of 

 Horticulture, the Chief Deputy Quarantine Officer and representatives 

 of the cotton seed importers was held at Calexico October 26th to con- 

 sider the importation of cotton seed into California from Mexico. As a 

 result of the conference the Horticultural Commissioner of Imperial 

 County, Mr. F. W. "Waite, was appointed by the writer as special 

 inspector to supervise the incoming shipments of cotton seed from 

 Mexico, and to prevent the use of imported seed for purposes other than 

 manufacturing. This arrangement will safeguard the regulations laid 

 dovm in quarantine order No. 26 of the State Commissioner of Horti- 

 culture. — G. H. Hecke. 



Second Meeting of the Committee on Horticultural Legislation. — 



The second meeting of the standing committee on Horticultural Legisla- 

 tion was held on October 14th at the State Capitol. Those present were 

 C. C. Teague, W. W. Hinsey, J. J. Brennan, E. W. Lewis, J. W. Jeffrey, 

 A. W. Tate, A. L. Wisker, C. F. Collins, Frederick Maskew, G. P. Wel- 

 don, G. H. Hecke, F. B. McKevitt, Geo. C. Roeding, Harry Chace, James 

 Mills, Col. Harris Weinstock (represented by Edgar Allen Forbes), 

 E. A. Gammon, John E. Gardner, L. M. Spiegl, C. E. Virden, H. E. 

 Butler (represented by Geo. E. Kellogg) , and H. C. Rowley. Mr. C. C. 

 Teague of the Limoneira Company of Santa Paula was selected to fill 

 the vacancy on the original committee of three, appointed by the Visalia 

 Fruit Convention (which vacancy was caused by the appointment of 

 Mr. G. H. Hecke as State Commissioner), this committee now consisting 

 of Messrs. Hecke, Wickson and Teague. This committee was given 

 power by the standing committee to add to the membership of the 

 general committee, and to act as the governing body of the general 

 committee. Further discussion of the proposed amendments to the act 

 relating to the County Commissioner of Horticulture took place. The 

 Standardization of Fresh Fruit Packing Law, chapter 659, Laws of 

 1915, was discussed and the following changes in this law proposed and 

 endorsed by the standing committee. 



In section 1 of the act to eliminate the clause "For interstate and 

 foreign shipment." 



It Avas decided to eliminate section 4 of the act entirely. 



Section 6 was changed so as to read, ' ' The fruit shall not vary in size 

 in each layer more than 10 per cent." 



Section 7 was amended to read "Grapes shall show a sugar content of 

 not less than 18 per cent Balling's scale, except Emperors and Corni- 

 chons, which shall show not less than 17 per cent Balling's scale." 



