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TWENTY-NINTH FRUIT-GROWERS' CONVENTION. 



MR. MARKLEY. Yes, sir; the statistics are submitted as a part of 

 the report signed by the members of the committee. 



PRESIDENT COOPER. Then the motion is before the Convention 

 for the adoption of the report as previously read, and the statistical 

 report also as a part of the committee's report. 



Carried. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON LOCAL ASSOCIATIONS. 



The following report of the Committee on Local Associations was 

 submitted by its chairman: 



To the Honorable Chairman and the Fruit-Growers^ Convention: 



Your committee to whom was referred the subject of the formation of local co-oper- 

 ative associations, to centralize for the conduct of the Growers' Co-operative Agency in 

 8an Francisco market, begs leave to report as follows: 



Efforts have been made to secure such organizations at several i)oints most interested 

 in securing fair market conditions there, but up to the present time none have been 

 found with enough local initiative to secure such organizations except upon the Sacra- 

 mento River. This association has successfully conducted the large business of the 

 Growers' Co-operative Agency during the past season in San Francisco, and urgently 

 invites every locality interested in that market to form a local association to become a 

 branch of the Growers' Co-operative Agency, thus joining them in the conduct of its 

 affairs. 



Your committee is convinced that abuses of no kind can be very effectively remedied 

 without the concerted action of those who suffer from these abuses, and such concerted 

 action is best secured by local organization of growers. They therefore recommend the 

 continuance of the effort to secure such organizations. 



Respectfully submitted. 



A. R. SPRAGUE. 

 Chairman of Committee. 



On motion, the report was adopted and ordered filed. 



MR. BERWICK. Mr. Chairman, I have a resolution here which I 

 will be pleased to read to the Convention. It is drawn up by a fruit- 

 grower whom many of you know, Mr. E. F. Adams. 



Eesolved, That in vicAv of the disclosures of the boycotting methods of the San Fran- 

 cisco fruit commission men, this Convention demands of the Governor and Board of 

 State Harbor Commissioners such rigid enforcement of the Woodward Act as shall 

 insure to every producer of perishable products who desires it, the opportunity to freely 

 sell his produce on the State property in San Francisco, unhampered by any boycott to 

 which others making use of the State property" are parties. 



Referred to Committee on Resolutions. 



MR. SPRAGUE. Mr. Chairman, I should like to discuss the two sub- 

 jects last before the Convention. 



PRESIDENT COOPER. It is in order. 



