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Board of Horticulture or ourselves, just as you wish, and place them 

 before the State Department, asking for an extension of the service. 

 This would undoubtedly be given to you, and if the service that has 

 already been rendered to you this summer has been of any material 

 benefit I am sure the second year will be more so. There is an element 

 of uncertainty which our consuls encounter in obtaining this infor- 

 mation. In France the consuls had much trouble from the French 

 handlers of fruit. They grew rather reluctant when they found that 

 Americans wanted information about their fruits for the promotion 

 of fruits from America. 



I don't know that I can say anything more to you on the subject, 

 except to make a suggestion, and that is that it would be very proper 

 and effective for you and your interests that a suitable resolution should 

 be passed here thanking the State Department for its work, for they are 

 human, and they look for an appreciation of their efforts; and I think 

 that if such a resolution was sent to them by you it would spur them on 

 to do better work with much more spirit, although their spirit has been 

 good as it has been. As yoa all know, you have many competitors, not 

 only in this country, but also in foreign countries, and if you are going 

 abroad with your products you must obtain the best information as to 

 crop and market conditions. These conditions apply not only to fruit, 

 but also to all articles of commerce which you have to sell abroad, and 

 this information can not be had satisfactorily by correspondence, as some 

 of our people are trying to get it now. If you are going to sell an article 

 in any other State you send a good man to represent you, and abroad 

 you have got to do the same thing. In our present consuls we have got 

 good men. I believe the sale of California fruits will be greatly 

 enhanced if these methods are adopted. 



MR. RIGHTER. These cablepjrams are free, and yet some one has 

 to pay for them? 



MR. EMERY. No, sir; the service of the State Department is free, 

 except that portion of the information that comes by cable; that has to 

 be paid for. 



MR. RIGHTER. Who pays for it? 



MR. EMERY. The Commercial Museum. 



MR. ADAMS. I wish at this time to offer the following resolution: 



Resolved, That the thanks of the fruit-growers of California, in annual convention 

 assembled, are hereby extended to the Hon. John Hay, Secretary of State, for author- 

 izing the employment of the cynsular service for systematically gathering information 

 valuable to fruit-growers; to Mr. Frederic Emory, Chief of the Bureau of Foreign Com- 

 merce, who has supervised the work; and to the many consuls who have so cordially 

 responded to our request. And we respectfully request that this service be extended 

 and perfected as experience may indicate as desirable. 



Resolved, That our hearty thanks be also extended to the Pacific Commercial Museum, 

 and to Mr. Eugene Goodwin, its director, for its effective work in receiving, copying, 

 and distributing this information, at the cost of the Museum. We desire that the 



