PROCEEDINGS OF THIRTY-SIXTH FRUIT-GROWERS ' CONVENTION. 21 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



PRESIDENT JEFFREY. If there is no objection to the regular 

 order that has prevailed in these conventions for a generation. I will 

 now announce the vice-presidents and the two committees which we 

 have always had. The vice-presidents will be C. H. Rodgers. represent- 

 ing the fruit growers of Pajaro Valley, and E. J. Wiekson, representing 

 the Agricultural College of this State. The Committee on the Presi- 

 dent's Address will be G. P. Rixford. representing the United States 

 Agricultural service, and Roy K. Bishop of Orange County, one of the 

 horticultural commissioners of the State. The Committee on Resolu- 

 tions will consist of George D. Kellogg of Newcastle. A. X. Judd of Wat- 

 sonville, and J. P. Dargitz of Acampo. Mr. Kellogg is a fruit-grower 

 and shipper. Mr. Judd is too well known to need any introduction to 

 this community or to the members of this convention. He always 

 attends, and he will do his work on this committee. Mr. Dargitz is the 

 secretary of the California Fruit Growers' Exchange, resides at Acampo 

 and a fruit gower at that place. The first paper on the program this 

 afternoon is "Southern Oregon Apple Growers— Rogues in Name 

 Only," by Mr. William M. Holmes, a prominent apple grower of the 

 Rogue River country and a resident of Medford. Mr. Holmes has writ- 

 ten me that he was called on a water lawsuit occupying yesterday and 

 to-day. but he has sent his paper and it will be read to you and subject 

 for discussion the same as if he were here. The secretary will now read 

 the paper. 



SECRETARY BREMXER. I might say that this gentleman has 

 two boxes of apples here, showing their standardization and uniformity 

 of pack, which are down at the Board of Trade rooms, where you can 

 see them. 



SOUTHERN OREGON APPLE GROWERS— ' ROGUES" IN NAME 



ONLY. 



By Wm, M. Holmes. Medford, Oregon. 



It is a somewhat significant fact that the Rogue River Valley in 

 Oregon, where the writer has resided for the past twenty-six years, owes 

 its present position in the world's fruit trade largely to the good judg- 

 ment and horticultural knowledge of a veteran in horticulture from the 

 State of Illinois. There is no better illustration than his experience 

 furnishes that methods of culture and selection of varieties must con- 

 form to local conditions. From the day when Hon. J. H. Stewart, now 

 deceased, first saw upon the banquet tables of the Pioneer Association, 

 assembled in annual reunion at Jacksonville. Oregon, a finer display of 

 prime apples than he had ever seen at a state fair in the Mississippi 

 Valley, he became a staunch advocate of commercial fruit culture in 

 southern Oregon. Urging upon his neighbors in the early eighties, before 

 as yet the transportation was provided, the necessity of preparing 

 to supply the Eastern demand for such choice fruit, he himself planted 

 more than one hundred acres of apples and pears, fortunately including 



