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Whereas, the present facilities at the California State Fair Grounds 

 are inadequate for the proper display and exploitation of the products 

 and resources of California, more particularly in the horticultural 

 department, where but one building is provided for the display of horti- 

 cultural, viticultural. agricultural and other products; and 



Whereas, the legislature of the State of California at the session held 

 in 1913 has enacted a bill to submit to the voters of the State a proposi- 

 tion authorizing the issue of "State Fair Grounds Bonds" to the 

 amount of $750,000, for the purpose of completing a plant at the State 

 Fair Grounds for the proper exploitation and exposition of all the 

 products of California, making an institution equal in extent and 

 facilities to those provided for state fairs in the eastern portion of the 

 United States ; be it 



Resolved, that the California Fruit Growers' Convention approves 

 the proposition as submitted by the legislature to the voters of the 

 State of California and urges their support for the measure at the 

 general election to be held in November, 1914. 



Respectfully submitted. 



G. Harold Powell, Chairman. 

 George Hecke, 

 C. C. Teague, 

 Geo. H. Cutter, 

 R. S. Vaile, 



Committee. 



MR. LEROY CHILDS RECEIVES NEW APPOINTMENT. 



It is with regret that we announce that ]Mr. Leroy Childs, for the 

 past year Assistant Secretary of the State Commission of Horticulture, 

 and also Assistant Editor of The ^Innthly BuHetin. has just accepted 

 a position with the Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station as Re- 

 search Asistant, with headquarters at Corvallis, Oregon. Mr. Childs 

 will assume his new duties July 15th. 



During his services in the Commission ]Mr. Childs has sho^^^a an 

 unusual ability for the kind of work his new position requires. His 

 loss will be keenly felt by the Commission force as a whole. In going 

 to Oregon we wish him the very best of success, with the assurance of 

 the complete co-operation and backing of this office in every way. — E. 0. 

 EssiG. 



