CONTENTS. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST DAY— Page. 



Opening Exercises 5 



Address of Welcome, Mayor Phelan 5 



Annual Address, President Cooper 9 



Committee on President Cooper's Address 13 



Report of California Fruit Growers and Shippers' Association 14 



Report of Committee on Foreign Consular Advices 17 



Report of Committee on Nicaragua Canal 18 



Discussion on Committee Reports 18 



Appointment of Committee on Resolutions 20 



Fruit Outlook in the Ban Joaquin Valley. By I. H. Thomas 20 



Distribution of Fruits. By A. H. Naftzger 24 



Outlook for Prune Industry. By Wm. H. Aiken 29 



Distribution of California Canned and Dried Fruits. By Isidor Jacobs 32 



Discussion on Fruit Distrib ution _-_ 37 



Report of Committee on Fruit Packages 43 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND DAY— 



Discussion on Consular Service 46 



Address by Eugene Goodwin „ 48 



Resolution of thanks to the Department of State 50 



Resolution on national quarantine law 51 



Work of the California Fresh Fruit Exchange. By A. R. Sprague 51 



The Raisin Industry. Address by M. Theodore Kearney 56 



Discussion on the Raisin Industry 60 



Appointment of Committee on Resolutions to President Roosevelt 62 



The California Wine Industry, its Future, etc. By W. J. Hotchkiss __. 62 



Discussion on the Wine Industry .._ _ 64 



Remarks of M. Theodore Kearney 68 



Resolutions favoring cooperative laws 69 



Resolution indorsing J. A. Filcher for Chief of the Department of Horti- 

 culture at the St. Louis Exposition 70 



Remarks by Mr. Filcher 70 



Report of the Committee on Labor _ 76 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD DAY— 



Telegram to President Roosevelt 77 



Report of Committee on Resolutions 77 



Hedge Row Vineyard. By Miss Lucy H. Hatch ._ 77 



Women's Agricultural and Horticultural Union of California. By Mrs. 



Emma Shafter-Ho ward 78 



