CONSERVATION 



finish their course with all the ceremony and 

 display of the commencement occasion." 



The party came on the invitation of Mr. 

 J. Lewis Thompson, of the Thompson Bros. 

 Lumber Co. Mr. Thompson provided a 

 cabin containing bunks for the entire party. 

 The students, however, preferred tenting 

 outside. 



The Reporter continues : 



' 'Better'n New Haven,' is the way one of 

 the foresters described the eating. Probably 

 the fare isn't any better, maybe not as good ; 

 but the exercise in the woods, the open air, 

 and the pine-scented atmosphere and the 

 clear sunshine, and a score of other features, 

 all have influence combined to create won- 

 derful appetitites, and the joy bell at the 

 mess hall never fails to bring unanimous 

 response." 



American Pomological Meeting 



The executive committee of the American 

 Pomological Society, a national organization, 

 has accepted a joint invitation tendered by 

 the Ontario Fruit Growers' Association, the 

 Niagara District Fruit Growers, and the St. 

 Catherines Horticultural Society to meet at 

 the city of St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada, 

 September 14-16, 1909. 



The secretary of the general executive com- 

 mittee is Mr. P. W. Hodgetts, of Toronto. 

 The secretary reports that an unusually large 

 number of state horticultural societies have 

 appointed delegates to attend the meeting. 

 This will insure a wide representation and a 

 diversity of interest which will present excep- 

 tional opportunity for considering in a satis- 

 factory way legislative questions of interstate 

 significance. A great exhibition of Canadian- 

 grown Lake Ontario fruits will be in prog- 

 ress at the time of the meeting. 



The fruit region between Niagara and 

 Toronto is the most intensively cultivated 

 region in Canada. Excursions through this 

 famous section will be arranged for the pleas- 

 ure and profit of the visitors. 



The program may be expected to include 

 the latest and best in the entire field of 

 pomology. 



Remember the Raisin ! 



The interest of much of the United States 

 has been centered upon California Raisin Day, 

 April 30, as a result of the determined and 

 systematic campaign being carried on by the 

 raisin growers of the Golden State to con- 

 vince the people of this country that raisins 

 are not only an article of dessert to be used 

 on rare and state occasions such as Thanks- 

 giving and Christmas, but an every-day, 

 staple article of food. When one pauses to 

 consider that a pound of raisins is equal in 

 food value to nearly a pound and a half of 

 beef, as shown by United States Govern- 

 ment analysis, it is a matter of wonder that 



raisins have not long ago become a part of 

 the daily food of the people. This fact has 

 been recognized for hundreds of years by 

 the people of European countries, where 

 the consumption of raisins per capita is about 

 five or six times greater than in America. 



From all indications, the growers will 

 succeed in their endeavor to bring the here- 

 tofore unrecognized raisin into its own as a 

 cheap, popular food for all the people, as no 

 more nutritious and nourishing fruit exists. 



The Counties Committee at Work 



A special train containing over 100 dele- 

 gates from various commercial bodies of San 

 Francisco and northern counties left on May 

 7 for Del Monte, where representatives of 

 all the other counties of the state were wait- 

 ing for the opening of the convention at 

 nine-thirty on the morning of the 8th. The 

 one great topic to be considered "was the 

 conservation of the natural resources of 

 California, this being the first state-wide 

 movement instituted anywhere in the country 

 for such a purpose. The conservation of 

 the natural resources of California was the 

 subject-matter of resolutions, reports and 

 addresses. Delegates from sixty-three af- 

 filiated organizations assembled in the art 

 room of the Hotel Del Monte to plan new 

 steps in the cooperative movement that has 

 proved so far-reaching in the upbuilding of 

 the Golden State. 



Among the results of the deliberations 

 were unanimous endorsement of the pro- 

 posed $18,000,000 bond issue for the im- 

 provement of the state's highways; the sign- 

 ing of a petition to the National Govern- 

 ment for the opening of Yosemite Park to 

 automobiles, and the endorsement of sug- 

 gestions for highway tree-planting and the 

 conservation of forest areas. 



Resolutions were adopted praising the 

 conservation policy of the Federal Govern- 

 ment ; endorsing the plan proposed by the 

 Rivers and Harbors Congress for the issu- 

 ance of Government bonds for the improve- 

 ment of navigable rivers ; endorsing the 

 Federal Government's action in reducing the 

 charges upon electric power developed by the 

 use of stored water ; thanking Congress and 

 the state legislature for appropriations made 

 in aid of the viticultural industry, and en- 

 dorsing the work of the United States 

 Weather Bureau. 



Utilizing a Volcano 



An American in Hawaii has discovered a 

 new use for a cheap and common article, 

 and a new way of preparing it. The article 

 is the giant fern, and the method of pre- 

 paring it is to cook it over a volcanic crack, 



