10 PROCEEDINGS OP THIRTY-THIRD FRUIT-GROWERS'' CONVENTION. 



There is another thing in which it seems to me our State ought to 

 take an interest, and that is the advancement of horticulture and agri- 

 culture through our colleges, our University, and Agricultural farms. 

 Our boys ought to be educated along those lines, because if horticulture 

 and viticulture, for instance, are going to be great industries of our 

 State— and they are great industries to-day— it is important that our 

 boys should be educated along those lines. It is an immense question 

 and we ought to take hold of it in our universities with a great deal of 

 vigor. We have a farm at Davisville, we also have a large property at 

 Fresno— the Kearney estate— and I hope the State will be generous in 

 its appropriations to make those farms a success, and do everything it 

 can to develop the horticultural and viticultural interests of our State, 

 because I know of nothing else we can teach our youth which will be of 

 greater advantage to them in the future than education along these 

 lines. 



I said I was pleased to be with you to-day. I did not expect to make 

 much of an address when I came here— only to state to you that I feel 

 an interest, as I pass through our State, in the large fruit orchards 

 that I see on every hand. I realize the great importance of your indus- 

 try. I know that it is the wealth of our State. It means the bringing 

 here in the future of a great many people. What we want in California 

 is intensified farming. The time is coming when these great ranches 

 must be broken up and we must look more to irrigation and to small 

 farming, the raising of fruits and vegetables, and that is what is going 

 to make our State a great State. Provide a water supply that is inex- 

 haustible. It seems to me that if man had devised a plan for making a 

 great valley which could be irrigated nicely, he could not have improved 

 on the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys. There is everything that 

 you need — a good soil, an abundance of water, and splendid sunshine — 

 everything that is necessary to grow fruit to perfection. All these things 

 we have in the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys, and I know as 

 time rolls on and our population increases and these great questions of 

 reclamation and irrigation are solved and people come among us to 

 make their homes here, we will find in this valley and around Marys- 

 ville and above and around Chico— in fact, all up and down where fruit 

 can be grown— a large population consisting of happy people and fine 

 cities. Marysville may be, as the Mayor says, the hub of the Sacramento 

 Valley, but we will find that around this hub there will be settlements ; 

 and it is for you people whose business it is to see that the fruit indus- 

 try grows, to hold your conventions and to take up these questions and 

 to solve them right, and I know that you will. 



I am glad to be with you here to-day, and I want to assure you 

 that as long as I am Governor of the State of California I will do all 

 I can, through our State Commissioner and through your County 



