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THIRTY-FOURTH FRUJT-GROWERS ' COX\'EXTIOX. 



that when the next election comes around and the political fellow comes 

 along asking for votes, he will be asked a whole lot of questions down 

 there. I know how the people of California stand— there is no question 

 about that: but down in that section, where they have been bred and 

 raised under a different theory, you have got to show them their own 

 interest. I have been tr^-ing to do it. I have told them that in five 

 years over $105,000,000 worth of fruit had been broueht in. over 

 $50,000,000 of it free of any duty, and in five years $26,000,000 worth 

 of vegetables brought in. Cuba. Bermuda, and other places beat our 

 own people out in the markets of the East. 



Xow, that is work that we are engaged in. That is the work that 

 is taking ten cents a carload for your citrus fruit twice a year — possibly 

 three times. At an expense of a little over $4,000 a year we have been 

 running the league. Mr. Lyon said the saving on the orange rate would 

 pay the expenses a good many years. It would for a hundred years, 

 if you stop to think — over $700,000 saving in freight by the ten-cent 

 reduction. Did you ever think of it? It doesn't amoiint to a good 

 cigar, the assessment you pay on your carload of oranges, and I think 

 we are doing you some good. I thank you. 



U\t this time an adjournment was taken until 1 Ao o'clock p, m.) 



AFTERNOON SESSION-SECOND DAY. 



Wedxe.?day, April 29, 1908. 

 PRESIDENT JEFFREY. Mr. Teague. who is first on the pro- 

 gramme, does not seem to be here, and if there is any other business 

 that you desire to take up now. it will be in order. 



A I\IEMBER. Mr. Chairman, some of us can not be at the lecture 

 to-morrow night, and we would like to ask something about the white 

 fly and its extermination. I would like to ask a question. Do you think 



it is possible to exterminate the white fly in any given locality? 



PRESIDENT JEFFREY. I will just tell you in a minute or a 

 minute and a half, while we are waiting, that at Bakersfield where there 

 were about 100 or 125 trees infected, where we use fumigation, we are 

 now unable to find any trace whatever of the fly. At Oroville, which 

 will be described to-morrow night in. very graphic terms, we are unable 

 to find a single evidence of larva or eggs or any other form of the white 

 fly. At Marysville. where the campaign was begun at the most unaus- 

 picious time, we have three men at work, and every two or three days, 

 on an average, they flnd a larva. No one could find a larva there in a 

 week, if not thoroughly acquainted with the ground. When there are 

 three men putting in eight hours a day systematically on a block of 

 trees, which have only small tops, you may know that it is very nearly 



