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huy, while preventing them from obtaining combination prices for what they have to 

 sell; and 



Resolved, That as it is absolutely essential to the success of our producers that they 

 form associations among themselves for the proper grading and marketing of their 

 products, the Legislature of this State is herebj'- respectfully petitioned to enact a law at 

 its next session which will effectively and immediately place our producers on an equality 

 before the law^ in this respect with any and all combinations. 



MR. SPRAGUE. I move that the resolution be referred to a com- 

 raittee for consideration and presentation to this Convention when it 

 assembles next year, and at that time let the committee bring in 

 recommendations. 



MR. NAFTZGER. I was about to make this motioUj but now I will 

 put it in the shape of an amendment to Mr. Sprague's motion; that is, 

 that a committee of seven be appointed to which the memorial will be 

 referred, and that the committee be instructed to report to the next 

 annual Fruit-Growers' Convention such recommendations as they deem 

 wise in the form of amendments to our cooperative law. 



Amendment carried, and the resolution adopted. 



RESOLUTION INDOESma HON. J, A. FILOHER. 



The following resolution was offered by Mr. Naftzger in regard to 

 the appointment of Mr. J. A. Filcher as Chief of the Department of 

 Horticulture at the St. Louis Exposition: 



Whereas, The commissioners from fifteen States and nine foreign countries, repre- 

 sented at the Pan-American Exposition, recently held at Buffalo, in the State of New 

 York, have united in recommending one of California's citizens, the Honorable J. A. 

 Filcher, for Chief of the Department of Horticulture at the forthcoming Louisiana Pur- 

 chase Exposition, to be held in the City of St. Louis, State of Missouri, in the year 

 1903; and. 



Whereas, The recommendation has been indorsed by thirty-six out of thirty-eight 

 exhibitors in the Department of Horticulture at the late Pan-American Exposition; 

 therefore, be it 



Resolved, That the fruit-growers of California, in State Convention assembled, recog- 

 nize and appreciate the compliment to our State and one of its citizens, and most 

 heartily unite in recommending Mr. Filcher for the important position named ; 

 believing that his identity with our interests, his long residence in California, and 

 particularly his very extensive and successful experience in exposition work, both in 

 this country and in Europe, coupled with his recognized energy and executive ability, 

 mark him as the man in all the West, and, for aught we know, in the country at large, 

 most eminently qualified for this distinguished and very important position. We 

 believe that his appointment would not only be a guarantee of energetic and efficient 

 work, but would carry with it the assurance that at St. Louis, for once in the history of 

 expositions, the great and rapidly growing horticultural interests of the world would 

 receive the recognition their importance demands. 



Resolution adopted by a rising vote of the Convention. 



MR. FILCHER. It has been my misfortune, or fortune as the case 

 may be, to be absent from home a great deal; last year in Paris, and 

 this year in Buffalo. If I was easily impressed, I might be on this 



