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cultural colleges. It is always more or 

 less clifTicult to secure speakers for 

 fruitgrowers' conventions on account 

 of the expense in attending, including 

 railroad fare and hotel bills. Usually 

 in the Northwest the speakers are in- 

 vited to attend and pay their own ex- 

 penses. In order to secure the ablest 

 speakers, that is the most eminent men 

 in science on diseases and insect pests, 

 I believe in future it is going to be nec- 

 essary for the fruitgrowers' conven- 

 tion to arrange to reimburse the speak- 

 ers who address a meeting for their 

 traveling expenses and hotel bills, that 

 is those who attend from outside the 

 state. In all agricultural colleges, in 

 addition to the professors and assist- 

 ants, there are many instructors and 

 students taking a post-graduate course 

 who could be utilized and/ furnish the 

 grower with an invaluable fund of 

 scientific information about the life 

 history and development of many dis- 

 eases and pests. One other feature in 

 connection with the California Fruit- 

 growers' Convention which impressed 

 me very forcefully was the meeting of 

 all the state horticultural conuiiission- 

 ers. In California each county has 

 a horticultural commissioner. Many 

 states have a county inspector, whose 

 position is similar to the county com- 

 missioner in California. This confer- 

 ence was of inestimable value to the 

 fruitgrowers of California. Such a con- 

 ference should be held in other states 

 at fruitgrowers' conventions. One fea- 

 ture of scientific importance was the 

 meetings of plant pathologists and en- 

 tomologists. While these were too 

 sicentiflc for the average fruitgrower, 

 still they are of great value to the 

 pathologists and entomologists. Such 

 meetings result in a discussion of many 

 problems which are in the process of 

 solution, each giving his own practical 

 experience and knowledge. 



As editor of "Better Fruit" I had the 

 honor to be asked to address the meet- 

 ing on "The Functions and Problems 

 of the Horticultural Press," and also 

 was requested to give an address on 

 "The Problems of Securing Standard- 

 ized Ap])le Packs" and "Fruit Market- 

 ing From the Standpoint of the Pacific 

 Northwest." While the program cov- 

 ered practically every field of horti- 

 culture endeavor by sicentiflc and 

 practical men, I regret I cannot speak 

 individually of each of the addresses. 

 In fact this would be impossible, for 

 the reason that usually six or seven 

 addresses were taking place at the 

 same time and I was only able to at- 

 tend one of them; therefore I shall have 

 to limit my remarks, first, to the ad- 

 dresses which I heard and, secondly, to 

 those which were broadest in their sig- 

 nificance. 



Among some of the most important 

 subjects upon which talks or addresses 

 were given, with discussions following, 

 were "The Practical Enforceiuent of 

 the ('alifornia Horticultural Quarantine 

 Law," by H. P. Stabler of Yuba City, 

 Fred Maskew of San Francisco, Wm. 

 Garden of Stockton and Wm. Wood of 

 Los Angeles; "Our l'"uture Labor Supply 

 and Population," by Simon J. Lubin of 



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Sacramento, one of the pioneer success- 

 ful merchants of that city; "Some 

 Things That Prospective Settlers Ought 

 to Know" and "Investment Required for 

 the Satisfactory Income." by Dean 

 Hunt of the University of California; 

 "i^ollination of Fruit Blossoms," by 

 Professor A. J. Cooke, State Horticul- 

 tural Commissioner; "Apple Culture in 

 the Watsonville District," "Pruning the 

 Apple" and "The Cost of Spraying," by 

 Professor W. H. Volck, who is con- 

 nected with the Department of Agricul- 

 ture and Horticultural Connnissioners, 

 located at Watsonville, the biggest 

 apple-producing section in the state. 

 In Watsonville everybody does as 

 Volck says. 



Mr. G. Harold Powell, whom every- 

 body knows, manager of the California 

 Citrus Fruitgrowers' Exchange, which 

 handles .'>0,000 cars annually, and for- 

 merly chief executive in the Depart- 

 ment of Horticulture at Washington, 

 I). C, gave a very interesting talk on 

 "The Fundamental Principles in Co- 

 operation as Applied to Agriculture" 

 and "The California Fruitgrowers' 

 Exchange. " 



One subject that probal)ly created in 

 its various phases more interest than 

 anv other was, "How Will California 

 Be Affected by the Passing of the Eight- 

 Hour-a-Day Law." Several addresses 

 were given on this subject under 

 various titles by the following people; 

 Geo. Hecke, Woodland; G. W. Pierce, 



