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me to collect all the information in regard to the olive culture, olive and 

 nut culture, and the dried fruit industry, that I can obtain to assist Profes- 

 sor Landeman in his arduous work. Mr. Cooper has already prepared full 

 information on the subject of the olive, and a full exhibit. We know he is 

 the highest authority in this State, and I am also glad to hear that my 

 friend Mr. Kimball of San Diego is preparing an exhibit and much infor- 

 mation. I hope, gentlemen, that all of you will give me such assistance 

 as you can, and I need not tell you that it will accrue to the lasting benefit 

 of our State. 



Mr. Lelong: Some time ago I received an invitation from the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture in relation to the matter, and started to prepare an 

 exhibit, and now that Professor Husmann has been appointed I shall be 

 very glad to turn the matter over to him. 



CITRUS CULTURE. 



ORANGE GROWING IN BUTTE COUNTY. 



Mr. Jesse Wood, of Chico: I only received notice at the recess of yester- 

 day's session that I was asked to prepare an essay, and of course, that time 

 was very short. The shortest speech reported was that of Dean Swift, who 

 was once requested to make an address and take a collection for the orphans 

 of an asylum. He gathered all the children on the front seat, and when 

 the time came for his address, simply waved his hand and said, " There 

 they are, proceed with the collection." All I have got to say is, " Here they 

 are" (showing oranges), and that is speech enough. I want to say, how- 

 ever, these are seedling oranges from trees that I planted with my own 

 hands on perfectly new ground that had never been broken by the plow — 

 government land that I took up in the hills near Chico — and I was in such 

 a hurry to get some orange trees planted, that I didn't wait to plow the 

 ground. I took it just as nature had left it, and plowed it the best I could 

 and spaded around the trees. Of course, I planted nothing but seedlings, 

 for. we had nothing but seedlings in Butte County. There was but one 

 man in the county at that time that had any budded fruit at all, Mr. 

 Wilcox, of Oroville. Since then I have planted budded trees, and also 

 a great many seedlings. I have seven and a half acres growing now 

 and three thousand little trees getting ready to grow, some of them 

 three years and two years old. I expect to increase my orchards until I 

 have twenty acres at least of orange trees, besides some olives and grapes. 

 We have been saying here from time to time that we grow fruit for money, 

 not altogether for glory. I grow it partly for money, partly for glory, and 

 partly for the fun of the thing; if there was not any money in it at all I 

 should want to grow all the trees I possibly could on my place. I was a 

 Methodist preacher some fifteen or twenty years in my life and traveled 

 from place to place, and I never lived in a parsonage in all that time but 

 I planted a tree in the yard, and if there is anything that I want to thank 

 God right now for it is that he planted that sentiment in my heart. We 

 grow oranges here in Butte County very much like these, as high up as 

 twelve hundred feet above sea level — at Cherokee, the old mining town 

 between eleven and twelve hundred feet above sea level, and they bear very 

 luxuriantly, and in different places, all over the county, they have a few 



