TWENTY-NINTH FRUIT-GROWERS' CONVENTION. 



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put these plans into effect, to promote co-operation among the prune-growers, the 

 raisin-growers, and the growers of all classes of cured fruit and nuts, throughout the 

 Pacific Coast, and that five members of said committee constitute a quorum thereof ; 

 this committee to report in writing to the next State Fruit-Growers' Convention. 



Adopted. 



MR. MARKLEY. Mr. Judd has submitted a resolution. Mr. Judd 

 says he was one of the unfortunate inspectors under the label law, and 

 found some trouble in enforcing it, and that he finds it necessary to 

 amend the law. On his statement, the committee indorses the follow- 

 ing resolution: 



Whereas, The Act of March 20, 1903, relative to the marking or branding of fruit 

 packages, does not give the grower the protection desired; therefore, be it 



Resolved, That said Act be so amended as to read after the word " grown," in line 9, 

 Section 1, of said Act: "Also the name of the grower and his postoffice address " ; and 

 be it further amended, making it a misdemeanor for any person or persons, firm or 

 corporation, to erase, or substitute, or in any way mutilate or deface any mark or brand 

 on fruit packages, previously placed thereon for the purpose of information, hy whom 

 and where said fruit was raised. 



Resolution referred to Committee on Legislation. 



MR. McINTOSH. Mr. Chairman, while on the report of the Com- 

 mittee on Resolutions, I move you, sir, that a committee of three be 

 appointed by the Chair to inspect the exhibits made in this hall by 

 various persons who have gone to some expense in making a display, 

 and to report subsequently upon this exhibit. 



Carried. 



DISCUSSION ON THE RAISIN INDUSTRY. 



MR. McIXTOSH. Mr. Chairman and Members of the Convention- 

 ladies and gentlemen: Referring to the matters before the Convention 

 this morning, it is not necessary for me to tell you who live in the San 

 Joaquin Valley, that this, of all other questions pertaining to soil pro- 

 duction, is the most important one. It is not necessary to tell you that 

 the city of Fresno has established a name for itself, not only in Cali- 

 fornia, not only throughout the United States, but also in Europe and 

 in the civilized world, that name being, "The Raisin Center." This 

 name, fellow citizens, has come down through many trials, through 

 many ordeals, through many strifes, through many contentions, with 

 much toil, much labor, and much talk, and to-day, thanks to that spirit 

 which unites individuals under difficulties, which unites the soil- 

 tiller under labor and under loss, we are now in possession of that 

 organization which has given to these people, of the past and of the 

 present, that which under individual effort none were able to accom- 

 plish. I refer, of course, to the California Raisin-Growers' Association, 

 now in its fifth year. Its record and its history have been written in 



LofC. 



