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will beat him. The trade is organized. The grower must meet organi- 

 zation with organization. Organized producers hold the whip hand. 

 Singly, they are easy prey. It is one thing to produce an almond. It 

 is quite another thing to sell it. 



Previous to 1910 the almond growers of California were Avithout 

 effective organization. In that year The California Almond Growers' 

 Exchange was organized. Since that time the output of the state has 

 greatly increased, foreign importations have increased at the same 

 time, but prices have been much better, markets have been steadier and 

 speculation in our products has been largely eliminated. Improved con- 

 ditions generally prevail. Cooperative buying of supplies has proved 

 an economy. New markets have been exploited. Further exploitation 

 will be necessary when the recently planted orchards come into bearing. 

 Lend a hand in the business end of the occupation. You are needed. 

 The benefits will be nuitual. Join a local association. Present your 

 troubles, for you will liave them, to the organized growers. Get the 

 benefit of their combined intelligence and experience. Get the benefit 

 of the expert salesmen employed by them. In other words, help de- 

 velop and protect tlie almond industry and business. The first is the 

 production of the aluioiul. The second is its marketing. 



A LEAK IN OUR QUARANTINE. 



By Frederick Maskew. 



The present administration, at the recpiest of the crop producers of 

 the state, greatly augmented the scope of the office of State Commis- 

 sioner of Horticulture by the passage of legislative acts authorizing 

 the extension of its activities in several directions. One of such acts 

 is embodied in the provisions of the present state quarantine law with 

 its justly famous protective section 5. When the author of this assumed 

 executive charge of the Quarantine Division he determined to make the 

 service — in all points of diligence and efficiency — equal to the concep- 

 tion of those who framed and passed the quarantine law. Results were 

 soon apparent, and in consonance with this progress the present ad- 

 ministration nearly doubled the number of the (juarantine force, and 

 they in return have more than quadrupled the number of parcels of 

 horticultural products legitimately intercepted, examined and disposed 

 of as provided under the law. This persistent activity in endeavoring 

 to maintain a quarantine has led to many new and strange findings, 

 one of which is herewith recorded and illustrated. 



Notwithstanding the strengthening of the quarantine force both in 

 numbers and with authority, the increased activities of the same force, 

 and the passing of special protective quarantine orders, we see clearly 

 by these illustrations that there remains, immune from state control, 

 national avenues of entrance constantly open to the possible introduc- 

 tion of insect pests destructive to our crops, and which if not closed or 

 controlled will eventually bring to naught all the constructive work of 

 our state legislators, the assiduous efforts of the quarantine inspectors, 

 the capable cooperation of the common carriers, and fasten upon our 

 growers and their posterity other permanent items of expense in the 

 matter of crop production. One of the most promising of California's 

 industries, with all of its possible extensions and developments and 



