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and was also empowered to call the next meeting whenever, in his 

 judgment, occasion required. An invitation to join the West Coast 

 Potato Association is to be extended to the potato growers of Oregon, 

 Washington, Idaho, Utah, Nevada and British Columbia. 



Report of the Committee on Resolutions. 



The first potato convention of the states of the Pacific slope, held 

 in Stockton, California, September 25 and 26, 1914, upon the call and 

 the initiative of Dr. Cook, State Horticultural Commissioner of Cali- 

 fornia, authorizes the following record : 



The instruction furnished by the foreign experts and those from the 

 agricultural department of the United States and of the State of Cali- 

 fornia was by this convention made the common property of the potato 

 growers of Utah, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, California and Nevada. 



It was positively demonstrated that the potato problem presented by 

 insect pests and fungous diseases are common to all these states. That 

 quarantine while necessary, is no safeguard against the appearance of 

 these pests and diseases, for wherever the tubers grow they are the 

 potential hosts of these infestations. 



Therefore the conclusion is reached that these common problems 

 summon all potato growers to a community of determination and effort 

 to cleanse their land and their crops by inspection and scientific treat- 

 ment of seed, by a rigid rotation of non-host crops, by investigating the 

 differential treatment of soils that differ in their characteristics, as 

 between the peat and bottom lands and the uplands. 



Further it is recorded that land owners who lease must at once enter 

 into permanent advisory relations with their tenants to assist them if 

 necessary by conditions in the lease in securing proper rotation and clean 

 land and seed. It is also made evident that it is the interest of the 

 growers in every state, in the exchange of seed, to see by official inspec- 

 tion that the seed is absolutely clean and fit, and then by proper rotation 

 of crops encourage all growers by the example of success. 



The success and permanence of the potato industry demands a supply 

 of vigorous disease-free seed. This seed supply can be far more surely 

 and efficiently obtained by inspection of the seed crop in the field. 

 Certain sections of this state are able and anxious to supply such seed. 

 The growers in these regions desire field inspection and certification to 

 protect their efforts to produce such seed. We ask the Department of 

 Agriculture of the State University, or State Horticultural Commis- 

 sioner to supply such field inspection at the growers' expense. 



It is the advice of this convention that for the benefit of California 

 and therefore for the information of all growers, that experimental 

 operations in the delta be comprehensively enlarged to include first, a 

 searching investigation of all insect pests^nd their biological history, 

 and of the conditions that incubate fungous diseases, and second, a sound 

 and feasible rotation of crops that will sustain the profits of the land 

 and cleanse it for potatoes as a leading cash crop. To this experimental 

 enlargement the convention pledges financial support upon condition 

 that the state and federal departments of agriculture will cooperate by 

 providing such expert investigators as the problems require. 



