PROCEEDINGS OF TWENTY-SIXTH FRUIT-GROWERS' CONVENTION. 51 



Museum continue this service for the fruit-growers on such terms as may be arranged 

 between the Museum and the State Board of Horticulture. 



Resolved, That this subject be now permanently referred to the State Board of Horti- 

 culture, with the request that it will assume a general oversight of these services in 

 behalf of the fruit-growers, and that it make an appropriate contribution to the Com- 

 mercial Museum toward the expense of the service. 



The resolution was adopted by the Convention without reference to 

 the Committee on Resolutions. 



MR. NAFTZGER. I offer the following resolution on national 

 quarantine law: 



Feeling as deeply as ever the vital necessity for a national quarantine law for the 

 protection of our fruit industry against the importation of fruit or trees, plants, shrubs, 

 vines, buds, or cuttings, commonly called nursery stock, infested with any disease, 

 scale, or insect pest, we, the fruit-growers of California, in convention assembled, 

 hereby give our cordial approval to House Bill No. 96, introduced into the Fifty-sixth 

 Congress by Mr. Wadsworth, and we do most earnestly request all members of Congress 

 from California to use their best efforts to secure the enactment into law of the Wads- 

 worth bill, or one embodying similar provisions establishing national quarantine 

 regulations. 



Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be sent to each member of Congress from 

 California. 



Resolution by Mr. Naftzger was referred to Committee on Resolutions. 



WOEK OF THE OALIFOENIA FRESH FEUIT EXCHANGE. 



By a. R. SPRAGUE, of Los Angeles, 

 General Manager of California Fresh Fruit Exchange. 



At almost every annual State Horticultural Convention for six years 

 past, the necessity for some organization of the fresh-fruit growers has 

 been most strongly urged. At the convention in Sacramento three years 

 ago the matter passed to the appointment of a committee for preliminary 

 organization, and this committee did considerable work endeavoring to 

 secure a car line to be owned and controlled by the growers, but finally 

 abandoned the attempt. 



Again, a call was issued for a special convention of fresh-fruit growers 

 to secure the organization of that interest last year. The meeting was 

 large and enthusiastic, I am told, and appointed a committee to secure 

 organization upon the basis of a contract like that of the Raisin- 

 Growers' Association. This committee did some hard campaigning in 

 the endeavor to so shape things as to do business in fresh-fruit shipping 

 upon that basis. It was a plan, however, that did not very generally 

 commend itself to experienced fruit men as practicable, and so upon the 

 advice of Mr. Naftzger of the Southern California Fruit Exchange and 

 at my strenuous urgency when called into council as one of the tem- 

 porary directors, the old plan was abandoned and it was determined to 

 take up the work upon the exchange basis, or selling delivered plan. 



