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in Fresno or San Francisco. It should be, I think, in the most central 

 place. But there should not be more than one selling agency for the 

 dried fruit, and as many as possible of the growers should be embraced 

 in that union, and that can only be done by organizing and having an 

 organizer in the field. Now, is Mr. Neff in a position to make us any 

 proposition with regard to this, or any promise that he can undertake 

 this? If not, it must be done by private enterprise. 



MR. NEFF. I do not know that I could promise exactly to furnish 

 the funds from the exchange, because we have never run the thing for 

 profit. All the surplus, if there was any, has always been distributed, 

 at the end of each year, to the persons or associations furnishing the 

 product; so that we have very little surplus on hand. 



MR. STONE. How many associations are affiliated with you ? 



MR. NEFF. About half a dozen. 



MR. STONE. Couldn't you get a mandate from that half dozen to 

 furnish an organizer in the field and furnish the funds ? 

 MR. NEFF. It may be done. I will do what I can. 



At this time a recess was taken until 2 o'clock this afternoon. 



AFTERNOON SESSION-THIRD DAY. 



Thursday, May 7, 1903. 



The Convention was called to order at 2 o'clock p. m. President 

 Cooper in the chair. 



PRESIDENT COOPER. I understand that W. H. Paine has been 

 successful with a sulphur wash in fighting the red spider. If he is here 

 he might give his formula for the wash. 



MR. PAINE. I can't say that it was my formula at all; but when 

 the investigation of the red spicier was going on down there, Mr. Volck — 

 who, I believe, as much as anybody, ought to have the credit for it — he 

 and I worked together very considerably at Azusa on that sulphur 

 spray. I would not call it a wash. The formula that was used then 

 was eleven pounds of sulphur to one pound of flour, mixed into a paste, 

 and stirred into a barrel of water. I have been making some experi- 

 ments with it, and I think that to do effective work on the orange trees 

 half the amount of sulphur and half the amount of flour will be suffi- 

 cient. That the sulphur spray is an absolute eradicator of red spider 

 there is not a doubt. At Duarte, only recently, there were some orange 



