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prise in California. I am aware that I cannot do justice to 

 all, that many were omitted who well deserve a place. But 

 my readers must take the will for the deed, and while I have 

 tried to give a brief sketch of some embarked in this great 

 industry, it was next to impossible to remember all and do 

 them justice. This would require a separate volume, and 

 an abler, though perhaps no more willing pen than mine; and 

 it would be an interesting task indeed to write a history of 

 the Pioneers of the Wine Industry, which I hope some of my 

 " brethren of the quill" will undertake, before their " deeds 

 of peace " have become obsolete, and their memory is 

 blotted out by the hand of time. 



CHAPTER XXII. 



CO-OPERATION IN VITICULTURE. 



While I am aware that individual enterprise has already 

 worked wonders in this, as in every branch of industry on this 

 Coast, and no one can be more willing and ready to appre- 

 ciate its efforts, yet I believe that still more could be accom- 

 plished by co-operation of the grape growers; throughout the 

 State as well, as by combined efforts in each community and 

 district. 



Our Viticultural societies, State as well as in each District, 

 have done a great deal of good already, by their meetings and 

 discussion to diffuse knowledge by interchange of opinion, 

 comparing samples of wine and grapes, etc. They should be 

 attended by every grape grower ; it will be a change from his- 

 daily routine, and he will return to it with knowledge gained. 



