8 PROCEEDINGS OF THIRTY-SIXTH FRUIT-GROWERS CONVENTION. 



known enlists her greatest product, her strongest force, man, at the head 

 of her ever advancing army, in a contest not for twenty rounds nor 

 forty rounds, but a finish fight, a contest not one of the sword or powder 

 or bullet, not one of suffering, pain, and sorrow, but a contest that 

 brings forth the higher, nobler principles of humanity. This is the 

 contest, gentlemen, in which you are enlisted, and the time of service 

 will expire when the curtain falls. 



I am more particularly impressed with the dignity, with the high 

 standing of this convention when I notice the names of the prominent 

 men throughout the State, among which is one that I remember in my 

 early boyhood days — I don't know that he is here — but away beyond 

 the Rocky Mountains, beyond the once Great American Desert, in a 

 little town in Iowa, it was a household name; a man whose family did 

 more for the protection of the interests of the State University of Iowa 

 than any other, and I want to tell you. gentlemen, if you have many 

 men of the stamp and character of John P. Irish, as I knew him, the 

 fruit industry of this State is in good hands. 



In looking after the different interests, the different worms and 

 moths, the microbes that infest the fruit, while I am not prepared to 

 advise you or make any recommendations. I would suggest that you 

 look after that little commercial bug that will bore in through the box 

 and the wrappings, and all after you have it ready for its distribution, 

 and kill the industry. 



Now, gentlemen, Governor Gillett is here and will address you. Again 

 I wish to thank you and extend to you the courtesy of this entire city. 

 (Applause.) 



PRESIDENT JEFFREY. In behalf of the convention, we thank 

 the mayor for his pleasant words and hearty greeting at this time. 

 Without further remarks, as the next speaker is capable of making 

 remarks for himself, I have the pleasure now of introducing to this 

 convention the chief executive of this State. Governor J. N, Gillett. 

 (Applause.) 



ADDRESS OF GOVERNOR J. N. GILLETT. 



Mr. Jeffrey, Fellow Citizens: I am pleased to be with you here on this 

 occasion, although I am suffering from a cold. The last time I had the 

 honor of being present at a convention of this kind was in Marysville. 

 I regret that I have not in the mean time had the pleasure of attending 

 other places where you have convened. 



It is well that the fruit-growers of California, representing all kinds 

 and characters of fruit, should gather together frequently and discuss 

 the great questions which are continually arising and confronting the 

 horticulturists and viticulturists of California. California is just com- 

 mencing — has hardly started in the growing of the fruits which will be 

 consumed by the entire w r orld. If you take this great big world of ours 

 and divide it into an immense farm— which it is— you will mid that in 

 the south would be the field devoted to cotton ; in the northern part of the 

 Mississippi Valley and through Canada and those high plateaus would 

 be the fields devoted to grain, and other parts and sections of the world 

 are devoted to pasturage, but in all the world California would be the 



