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portant an investigation. We have found continued opposition by the 

 Department of Entomology at Washington and by the entomologists of 

 New England and the Middle States. In correspondence with the State 

 Board of Agriculture of Massachusetts concerning the gypsy moth, that 

 board was requested to set apart $5,000 from an appropriation of $250,- 

 000 and send an entomologist with our searcher to look for the natural 

 enemy of this moth, which is known to exist in northern middle Japan. 

 This was refused, and the names given of seven entomologists of New 

 England, New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, whose advice was 

 against the proposition. They have spent a million of money in trying 

 to stamp out the gypsy moth, and yet the territory of its ravages is 

 extending. 



Irrigation. — There has been so much written and published on this 

 subject in the past two years, that I will not dwell on it, but refer you 

 to my opening address of one year ago, and also call your attention to 

 the appeal of the National Irrigation Association; headquarters at 1707 

 Fisher Building, Chicago; George H. Maxwell, executive chairman. 

 His appeal is to all those interested in the subject to become members 

 of the association by contributing annually five dollars, which will 

 entitle them to all the publications, and to organize in each district 

 and to instruct our representatives in Congress to favor a national 

 system. The executive chairman asks for the indorsement by this Con- 

 vention of the principles advocated by the association . 



Forest Protection. — This question goes hand in hand with irrigation, 

 and is a part of the appeal above mentioned. On this subject I refer 

 you to my remarks made at the Fresno convention. 



Food Adulteration. — I call your special attention to my remarks of 

 one year ago. This subject is claiming the attention of many of the 

 States, and the most severe laws have been enacted to protect the con- 

 sumers in the quality of foods placed on the market for sale. I call 

 your attention to what has been done in the State of New Jersey, where 

 thousands of dollars have been appropriated to ferret out and to punish 

 offenders who have on sale adulterated articles or substituted articles of 

 food products without proper labels. The adulteration and substitution 

 of food products concern the industries of California more than those 

 of any other State in the Union, and yet not one dollar has been appro- 

 priated to protect those industries. 



We have on our statute books a dairy law. an olive oil law, a drug 

 law, and a pure food law generally, also a horticultural quarantine law 

 to protect us from new diseases, etc. Regarding the latter I beg to 

 quote from a very able opinion given by Judge John F. Ellison in a 

 suit brought in Tehama County. He said: "It is a crude and unsatis- 



