MEETING OF COUNTY PROMOTION COMMITTEES. 



more rapidly when reasonably confined. Many, however, let their hogs graze on alfalfa 

 and find it a splendid forage. Though hogs can live in the open the year round in Cal- 

 ifornia, it is better to provide shade for them in summer, although their quarters need 

 not be boarded up on all sides. The hot sun of some of the interior valleys is apt to 

 make a big, fat pig uncomfortable. 



Climatic conditions in California make hog-raising desirable. One can raise feed for 

 them at all times of the year and they are not called upon to resist the bitter cold of 

 the East. 



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MEETING OF COUNTY PROMOTION COMMITTEES. 



An interesting meeting will be held in Pasadena on December 17, 1904. This will 

 be the second semi-annual meeting of officers of the Chambers of Commerce and de- 

 velopment organizations of California, the first having been held in Sacramento on 

 June 18th last. 



The theme of the Pasadena meeting will be "California Publicity." That this topic 

 will be vigorously and enthusiastically discussed is assured by the fact that Califor- 

 nia is the only State where the members of development organizations have ever met 

 with the common purpose of co-operation and bettering their work. 



At the Sacramento meeting last June, which was the first of the kind ever held, 

 a resolution was passed recommending that all the organizations in the various coun- 

 ties of California be formed into County Promotion Committees on a basis of equal rep- 

 resentation, each organization appointing one or more of its members, according to the 

 number of organizations in that county, to serve on the County Promotion Committee. 



Throughout California these County Promotion Committees have generally been ap- 

 pointed. As they are now constituted, they bring all organizations in each county into 

 close touch and they form a rational method by which all the organizations in Cali- 

 fornia can work together for the development of the whole State. 



Each County Promotion Committee representing, as it does, all the organizations in 

 that county, is a unit in the united development work for the whole State. 



The County Committees will assist the State Publicity Committee in its work of 

 advertising the whole State. 



An interesting program has been arranged, and as all members are invited to dis- 

 cuss the subjects assigned, it is believed that the Pasadena meeting will be a great 

 success. 



At the last meeting of the officers of development associations in Sacramento, June 

 18th, there were present delegates who had come 600 miles to attend the meeting. 



NUMBER OF SWINE IN CALIFORNIA. 



An expert estimate places the number of swine in California at 511,311. valued at 

 $3,901,307, or $7.63 a head, slightly less than the average in the East and in Iowa, 

 where hog-raising is an industry of tremendous importance. The value of swine on 

 dairies in California is estimated at $1,710,040. A leading dairyman and hog-raiser for 

 many years states that fully one-third of the hogs in California are raised on dairies. On 

 this basis the hogs raised on dairies in California are therefore far more valuable than 

 the general average of Eastern hogs. 



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PREMIUMS FOR " FOR CALIFORNIA." 



For every new subscriber for "FOR CALIFORNIA" whose name is sent to the 

 California Promotion Committee, San Francisco, we will send one copy of any of the 

 following publications: "San Francisco and Thereabout." by Charles Keeler, or "Cali- 

 fornia Addresses by President Roosevelt," containing in chronological order all the 

 addresses delivered by the President while in California, or "California To-day." The 

 volumes sent to any address postpaid. 



