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hope we have of assimilating them is to get them out on 

 the farms. 



California is not a manufacturing state, we cannot re- 

 store the gold to the gravels along our streams that once 

 offered wealth to the prospector, and it will take centuries 

 to re-forest our mountains with the timber that was once 

 another source of wealth and means of employment. But 

 the latent fertility of our soil abides and with proper man- 

 agement will never fail us. Generations may come and go 

 but harvest will continue to follow seed time. "We must 

 prepare the land for these people who are coming and when 

 they come prepare them for the land; and that great work 

 must largely be done by the agricultural department of the 

 state university. By conserving and developing our water 

 supply and by applying more scientific methods to our farm- 

 ing, we can make room for many thousands more in the un- 

 developed north, in the fertile valleys of the Sacramento 

 and San Joaquin an empire in themselves and on great 

 stretches of land redeemed from desert in the south. The 

 invading hordes will not be a menace to our state if we can 

 make farmers of them and place them in the environment 

 of country life. On the contrary, they will become loyal 

 and true Americans who will bow with us in reverence for 

 the lustre of the stripes and the glory of the stars of the 

 flag we love and honor. 



