112 PROCEEDINGS OF NINETEENTH FRUIT GROWERS' CONVENTION. 



president's RECOMMENDATIONS and committee's REPORT. 



Mr. Stephens: The Committee on the President's Address, in their 

 report, requires, in order to carry out the suggestions of the President, 

 that a plan be inaugurated which will combine all the fruit products of 

 the State, and bring them under one general system of shipping and 

 marketing. Such system should embrace his idea of ten or more agents 

 traveling throughout the Eastern towns and villages, to open up and 

 establish new markets for our fruits, both dried and fresh. It is recom- 

 mended that a committee of nine be appointed by the convention to 

 organize an incorporation, whose business shall be the opening up and 

 establishing of such markets, and providing for the proper advertising 

 of our fruit products. This is the recommendation of the committee. 



Mr. Adams: We have an incorporation already, which has cost some 

 thousands of dollars. There has been a great deal of that work done, 

 and they are doing the best they can. I move that it be laid on the 

 table. 



Motion carried. 



Mr. Stephens: Here is another, recommending that the convention 

 appoint a committee of nine members, to consider the whole subject of 

 State inspection, as suggested by the President. 



Mr. Adams: I move that it be laid on the table. 



Motion carried. 



Mr. Stephens: The committee recommends asking for an appropria- 

 tion of $5,000 per year, to be used in the further search for predaceous 

 insects; also, for an appropriation of $5,000 per year for the use of the 

 State Board of Horticulture, and that a committee of five be appointed 

 by the convention to consider the subject of asking for an appropria- 

 tion from the State to establish a bureau of statistics. What is your 

 pleasure about the recommendations of the committee? 



Mr. Berwick: There are three separate appropriations named there. 

 Does the vote for one cover the three? 



Mr. Stephens: Each has a paragraph by itself; one for predaceous 

 insects; another for the State Board of Horticulture, and the other one 

 for establishing a bureau of statistics. 



Mr. Sprague : I move that we vote on them separately. 



The motion was carried. 



Mr. Stephens: An appropriation of $5,000 for importing beneficial 

 insects. 

 Adopted. 



Mr. Stephens: An appropriation of $5,000 for the uses of the State 

 Board of Horticulture. 

 Adopted. 



Mr. Stephens: Next is asking for an appropriation to establish a 

 bureau of statistics. There is no sum named for this. 

 Mr. Sprague: I move that it be laid on the table. 

 The motion was carried. 



Mr. Stephens: The Committee on Legislation has a partial and pre- 

 liminary report, if the convention is ready to receive it. 



