PROCEEDINGS OF NINETEENTH FRUIT GROWERS* CONVENTION. 77 



is now the thing required. The less soluble Paris green is, the better 

 for your trees. Any person whose Paris green is in a very soluble con- 

 dition will have trouble. It is a step in advance to have your Paris 

 green as insoluble as possible. 



RESOLUTION. 



Major Berry: With your permission, gentlemen, I offer for your 

 consideration the following resolution: 



Whereas, The fruit interests of California demand the protection from insect pests 

 and diseases provided by law ; and whereas, many counties with valuable fruit inter- 

 ests, particularly in the northern part of the State, are as yet without County Boards of 

 Horticultural Commissioners ; therefore, be it 



Resolved, By the fruit-growers of California in convention assembled, at Sacramento, 

 November 7, 1895, that we do request the Boards of Supervisors in the various counties 

 to immediately appoint Horticultural Commissioners, where there are no Commission- 

 ers at present, and we further ask that a liberal policy be adopted toward the Commis- 

 sioners when appointed. 



Major Berry (continuing) : A large portion of the time of this con- 

 vention has been taken up with various views of what is the matter 

 with the fruit interests of California. In private conversation with 

 some gentlemen whom I have met here, I find that the men who grow a 

 good article of fruit are successful, and those who do not are unsuccessful. 

 I do not know whether you are victims of the effects of the codlin moth. 

 I hope you are not. Tulare County raises the prettiest apples in the 

 world, yet it is a rare thing to get hold of any quantity of apples there 

 without more or less worms in them. The county is also beginning to 

 take steps in the direction of suppressing the black scale. For these 

 reasons and others, I would urge this convention to adopt this resolu- 

 tion, so that we may present it as the sense of this convention to all our 

 various Boards of Supervisors and urge more active operations in com- 

 pelling slovenly men to keep their orchards clean. 



Mr. Motheral : The passage of some resolution that will put some 

 sort of courage into the County Boards of Supervisors is very much 

 needed. It is not sufficient protection for each man to spray his own 

 trees. The codlin moth falls all over the country, and all of our apples 

 this year are simply ruined. In my section (Kings County) the 

 orchards were sprayed thoroughly, but in buying a poor article of Paris 

 green we undervalued this sort of thing. I thought I was safe. W e 

 woke up at the close of the season and found we had no fruit. The case 

 with my neighbors was the same. We lost everything in the way of 

 apples in that county. 



Mr. Osborne: I found a new pest in our county and I wrote Mr. Craw 

 about it, and sent a specimen of the new discovery. He wrote us five 

 letters, which we laid before our Board of Supervisors, and showed them 

 the new discovery that I found in Madera County. I showed them 

 seventy-two specimens of scales that I had gathered within a week, and 

 they ordered me to cut down the Lombardy poplar trees and locust trees 

 at once. Well, sir, I kept carrying those letters to the Board until I 

 have got a solid Board. The State law is ample, and all it wants is 

 backbone on the part of the Supervisors and Commissioners to stand 

 by it. 



A. D. Pryal: I tried a small experiment on apple trees in my orchard 

 in Alameda County, about one and one half miles south of Berkeley. 



