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to assure you that such work commands the keenest interest anion g 

 the pomologists of the University, and they are eager to cooperate 

 with the growers and with the competent men whom the counties of 

 Santa Cruz and Monterey have already in joint service for the promo- 

 tion of the apple industry. It is. however, really a State service and 

 should be provided for by the legislature as such. To attain results 

 this work should be amply provided for through a period of many 

 years. Probably your two counties and your liberal individuals and 

 associations have done more for the protection of the apple than all 

 the rest of the State combined, and all the State has benefited by your 

 wo'rk. It is time the State took up apple work as a special effort in its 

 own behalf, and this convention should express itself clearly in this line. 



As to my first question, then. "Must the apple go to the Mountain?" 

 although I disclaim the ability to finally answer it. I expect a negative 

 reply for these reasons : 



First — Though some apples may have to go to considerable elevations 

 for the best development, other apples both for pomological and com- 

 mercial development must be grown under the distinctive advantages 

 of the coast valleys. All apple literature and all common experience 

 show that different varieties of apples require different conditions for 

 their best development and the trade requires that such special adap- 

 tation be discovered and regulate the activities of planters. There is 

 every reason, therefore, to think that there may be apples of every 

 season of ripening which suit our valleys better than higher elevations 

 anywhere. 



Second — The present disposition of apple planters is to grow long- 

 keeping winter varieties to secure the manifest advantages of such fruit 

 for long distance marketing. This special attention to one phase of 

 apple growing should convey the suggestion that more should be done 

 to develop markets for summer, fall and early winter varieties for all 

 of which California has distinctively adapted districts and can market 

 such fruit everywhere west of the Rocky Mountains and south of the 

 Arctic Circle, while locally grown apples over this vast area are still 

 in the bullet or baseball phases of growth. This is a field of production 

 which must be distributed through the interior valley and foothills 

 and the coast valleys, according to the special growing conditions which 

 are found in each of these situations. Every advance in the settlement 

 and development of the wintry districts of the Pacific Slope opens wider 

 the avenues for the employment of the unique advantages of early 

 growth which a relatively small area of the slope possesses. 



Third — Not only the nearer markets, which are thus expanding, but 

 the more distant countries around the Pacific border, and especially, 

 perhaps, those southern regions which will come into neighborly rela- 

 tions with us through the Panama Canal, and along all the currents of 

 transportation which it will set in motion there will be new demands 

 for apples during all the months before the latest keepers mature. 

 This is a field in which there will be practically no competition with 

 California valleys, and no matter what is done with winter apples here 

 or elsewhere, this opportunity will remain open to us. (Applause.) 



PRESIDENT JEFFREY. We have some time now for discussion. 

 There has been considerable said this afternoon about type, about stand- 

 ardizing apple trees or getting pedigree stock. If that is good doctrine 



