TWENTY-NINTH FRUIT-GROWERS' CONVENTION. 



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PROCEEDINGS OF SECOND DAY. 



Wednesday, December 9, 1903. 

 The Convention was called to order at 9:30 o'clock a. m. President 

 Cooper in the chair. 



MR. MARKLEY. Mr. President, if I am in order I would like to 

 make a report. 



PRESIDENT COOPER. The program has been completed as far 

 as we have gone excepting the paper of M. V. Hartranft and the one of 

 Mr. Filcher. I presume that they will be here and that Ave will hear 

 them this afternoon. The Governor is in Fresno, and will be here 

 some time this morning. After his arrival we will suspend the program 

 for a few minutes to hear anything he may wish to communicate. We 

 will hear the report of Mr. Markley first. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



The Committee on President's Address submitted the following report: 



To the State Fruit-Growers' Convention: 



We, your committee, to whom was referred the President's address, respectfully 

 submit the following report: 



We urge all persons interested in fruit-growing and irrigation to carefully consider 

 and digest this able document. We consider it important that the standing Committee 

 on Legislation place in the hands of each member of the next Legislature, just after the 

 election, a copy of the same, urging the Legislature to take proper action upon the 

 recommendations therein contained. 



We extend the thanks of the fruit-growers of the State to our President for these 

 annual addresses, and for his constant efforts in their behalf. 



JOHN MARKLEY, 



w. R. Mcintosh, 



A. N. JUDD, 

 GEORGE L. HUNT, 

 EDWARD BERWICK, 

 Committee on Address of the President of the State Fruit 

 Growers' Convention, Fresno, December 9, 1903. 



THE CALIFORNIA VINE DISEASE. 



By prof. NEWTON B. PIERCE, of Santa Ana. 



The disease about which I have written has been pretty thoroughly- 

 worked out in some respects, as to its general characteristics, so I will 

 make only a brief review of the present conditions in the State. 



Since the first appearance of the California vine disease in the vine- 

 yards at Anaheim, California, in 1884-85, it has never entirely ceased 

 its ravages in the affected districts. Its spread through southern Cali- 

 fornia was very rapid, so that within five years from its first appear- 



