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valued at nearl_v a half million dollars, and when it comes to Lima beans it is the 

 greatest county in the state and the greatest producer of any small section in the 

 world. 



As agriculture, or more particularly liorticulture, predominates, its board of 

 supervisors, not one member of which is a farmer, j'et with keen business judgment, 

 picked a voung man fresh from college who has an ambition to make his county the 

 cleanest in the state. We refer to Ventura County, whose commissioner is Mr. 

 E. O. Essig. The board of supervisors has granted to the commissioner practically 

 every request for supplies and appliances. His central office is located in Santa 

 Paula, not the county seat, but in the center of the producing section of the county, 



EDWARD OLIVER ESSIG 

 Horticultural Commissioner of Ventura County. California 



and this office is thoroughly fitted with cases containing specimens of insects and 

 fungi, a fairly complete library, almost perfect filing appliances, and incubators 

 for developing fungous growths, nearly evcrytliing needed in a laboratory for 

 original investigation. 



In return for this confidence manifested by the board of supervisors, Mr. Essig 

 lias given his days to work in study and inspection in the field and his nights to 

 work in the laboratory, and tlie result is that for original research and actual 

 accomplishment we do not believe there is a commissioner in the state superior. 

 Especially along the lines of wither-tip and mealy bug investigations has Mr. 

 Essig been persistent. We do not recall any man or body of men that lias gone 



