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new ideas awakened, feeling more able to cope with his task, 

 and encouraged by the success and example of others. We 

 should meet in a friendly feeling of rivalry, with tolerance of 

 the views of others, and ready to impart what we know, re- 

 ceiving the knowledge of others in return. We have two im- 

 portant institutions in common, the State University and its 

 Viticultural Department, and the State Board of Viticulture. 

 Both have already given us varied information, and are con- 

 tinuing to do so. Let us strengthen their hands by ready and 

 willing co-operation with them, so that they feel that their 

 efforts are appreciated and supported, and are thereby en- 

 couraged to further the good work whenever they can. This 

 is co-operation in its broadest sense. 



But we should also initiate it in" every community, in every 

 district and valley of this broad State. Let us form local 

 clubs, meet once a month, at least, and exchange ideas. 

 There is a still stronger reason for 'this than for State Societies, 

 for all the knowledge gained, all the experiments made by us 

 as well as our neighbors, comes directly home to us, and can 

 be applied to our own case, in our own vineyards and cellars. 

 Let us not have any secrets, but act with the conviction that 

 the common good is also the good of the individual ; and 

 have no other ambition but that of applying the knowledge 

 gained, more practically and forcibly than our neighbors. Let 

 the knowledge gained be common property, and the best man 

 win in the common race after perfection. 



Still a more intimate system of co-operation can be folio wed 

 by each neighborhood ; where we can unite by purchasing 

 labor saving implements in common and forcommon use ; 

 helping one another to prepare our vineyards, by using the 

 same teams in turn to break land, subsoil, etc ; and where 

 there are several small growers, each unable to build cellars 

 and purchase machinery, tanks and casks ; three or four can 

 unite, build a common cellar, of which one of them, perhaps 



