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Resolved, That the President of this convention be requested to appoint a committee 

 of five, which shall represent all the above classes of shippers, for the purpose of taking 

 steps to carry the above resolution into effect; and be it further 



Resolved, That the California Fruit Exchange, as it proceeds in its work of organiza- 

 tion, be requested to make the importance of maintaining such association very promi- 

 nent, and to impress upon all growers the necessity of strongly supporting it in all 

 ways; and be it further 



Resolved, That the members of this convention hereby pledge themselves to give such 

 association, when formed, our continuous and hearty support. 



On motion of Mr. Righter, the resolutions were referred to a special 

 committee of five, with instructions to report at the evening session. 



The Chair appointed Messrs. Righter, Geister, E. F. Adams, D. T. 

 Fowler, and H. Weinstock. 



Recess until 7:30 o'clock p. m. 



EVENING SESSION. 



The Chairman announced that the topic for discussion would be a 

 continuation of the subject which was under consideration during the 

 afternoon session. 



Col. Hersey read a dispatch which he had just received, containing 

 an offer of 2-J cents a pound for seven cars of prunes, averaging 110 to 

 112, and If cents for seven cars running from 120 upwards. Col. 

 Hersey said: That, gentlemen, is quoting the price down to quite a 

 moderate sum. Now, I will give you this little bit of advice: If you 

 cannot raise prunes that run better than 120 upwards, you had better 

 not raise them, except you keep a good stock of pigs to feed them 

 to. They make very good hog feed. [Laughter.] And if you have 

 more prunes than you have hogs to feed them to, you can dry them; for 

 with a reasonable amount of cooked food, hogs will thrive on them very 

 well in that form. I have received from one man this year three cars 

 of prunes, and I think that out of the 39 tons, there are about 2 tons 

 that ran from 80 to 90 or 90 to 100, and the other 37 tons ran from 100 

 to 180 to the pound. Unless that man can raise better prunes than 

 those, the sooner he goes out of the prune business the better it will be 

 for him; and while he is benefiting himself by going out, he will benefit 

 all the rest of us, because to throw such prunes on the market is a 

 damage to every prune grower in the State. If I sell these seven cars 

 of prunes at If cents, they go East and go into the hands of hundreds 

 of persons; they go into the show windows, and are advertised at 

 six pounds for a quarter, as California prunes; and people without 

 any knowledge of prunes buy them, but they never will buy 

 any more. That shows you some of the difficulties that we 

 have to deal with in our valley. And that sort of difficulty 

 is met with in all parts of the State. We have to sell our fruit 

 precisely as you in other parts of the State have to sell yours. If 

 a man comes from San Francisco to our warehouses or to our Exchange, 

 and wants to purchase prunes or peaches, and we ask him, for instance, 

 4^ cents for four sizes of prunes, or 5 cents, as the case may be, he tells 

 us that he can buy them up at Santa Rosa for 4 or We say in a 

 respectful way, " Go up and buy all you can at that price. We have 

 none to sell." And perhaps the next man that comes will say that 



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