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variously estimated from six to twenty-five per cent of the production, 

 according to different varieties. It is, therefore, evident that the prices 

 the canner should pay for fruit are largely dependent upon conditions 

 outside the canning business. First, upon the dried fruit demand, and 

 the facilities for drying. Second, upon the demand for fresh fruit in 

 the East, and the facilities for handling it. 



It is certainly self-evident that a fruit-grower should not be a specu- 

 lator; but when he can make a contract for one year, or a period of 

 years, with a canner in whom he has implicit confidence, at a price 

 that will pay him a good estimated profit on his estimated crops, it is 

 to his interest to make such a contract. It is a fact that the fruit- 

 canner is willing to pay to the grower, a good, fair price for fruit, but 

 he requires first-class fruit to be delivered in accordance with the con- 

 tract. Although it is frequently the idea that when .the market goes 

 down, or there is a glut and the canner can not handle the fruit, he is 

 more inclined to reject it, yet this occurs very seldom. It is, of course, 

 human nature that when such a state of affairs occurs the canner will 

 be more critical in the examination of the fruit than he would ordi- 

 narily, and when he is faced by a tremendous loss because he can not 

 handle the fruit he has contracted for, he is certainly going to endeavor 

 to get out of the contract if the fruit does not comply with the same; 

 whereas, on the other hand, when the market goes up, and the canner 

 can handle the fruit, he is inclined to frequently overlook the condi- 

 tions existing, and accept the fruit even if it does not comply with the 

 contract. Yet, after all, when we consider' the amount of fruit handled 

 by the fruit-canners of this State, there is comparatively small reason 

 on the part of the grower to complain, for if the fruit-canner is honest 

 and intends to do the right thing and live up to his contract, and if the 

 fruit-grower is honest and intends to do the right thing and live up to 

 his contract, there certainly should not be any reason for complaint on 

 either side. It is in everyway a question of right-doing, and -dependent 

 entirely upon the good faith of both parties to the transaction. 



One thing is certain, whether the fruit is for canning purposes, or for 

 drying, or for shipment East, it is to the advantage of the fruit-grower 

 to use his best efforts to produce a good grade by properly thinning the 

 fruit on his trees, and exercising careful and good judgment. 



The relations of fruit-grower and canner, therefore, it may be stated 

 in conclusion, depend entirely upon good faith and honesty on the part 

 of both. 



Mr. Judd here presented the following resolution: 



Resolution in Favop of Good Roads. 



Whereas, There is a greatly increased demand for good roads in California, owing 

 to the constantly increasing traffic and increasing demands upon them ; and 



Whereas, The wealth and population of California are fast being concentrated in 

 the cities and towns ; and 



