PROCEEDINGS OP THIRTY-SIXTH FRUIT-GROWERS ' CONVENTION. 149 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



PRESIDENT JEFFREY. The meeting will please come to order. 

 As you know, the excursion should have been this afternoon, but as 

 that has been called off the time is yours. How will you use the two 

 hours here that we have this afternoon? 



MR. JUDD. Mr. Chairman. I move that the President, Mr. Jeffrey, 

 arrange the program to suit himself. He is in touch Avith everything 

 that is coming up. and I believe he is more qualified than any one on 

 the floor to make a program. 



The motion of Mr. Judd was seconded and being put by him, was 

 unanimouslv carried. 



PRESIDENT JEFFREY. Mr. Xewcomb has something he Avould 

 like to present. 



Mr. Newcomb read a telegram from Santa Rosa extending an invita- 

 tion to hold the next convention at that place, and spoke in favor of 

 meeting there, as did also Mr. Galloway. 



Mr. Costello and Mr. Dargitz made a few remarks on behalf of Lodi, 

 which also extended an invitation to the convention to meet at that 

 place. 



MR. NEWCOMB. I would like to say just one more word on this 

 line of fruit growers' conventions, about going to the sections that need 

 us. You have started in on a plan that I think is good, and that is, 

 going to each section and specializing on what they need. This is a 

 general body of the whole State. We can not, at any place, discuss the 

 problems that are just needful for that point. My idea really of this 

 thing would be that the State office hold meetings in these different 

 places, as they have started to do, and then every year this meeting 

 should be held at Sacramento where the State office is and where the 

 insectary is: take the small meetings around and give exactly what 

 those people need, but have the main meeting every year at Sacramento. 



PRESIDENT JEFFREY. I will say to the claimants of this meet- 

 ing, in line with Mr. Xewcomb 's suggestion, there will be a meeting at 

 Lodi, already provided for. Arrangements are being made for holding 

 a meeting in Sonoma, presumably soon. These meetings that we have 

 held in Solano County and Placer County are larger than our general 

 fruit growers' conventions, though not so general in scope. It may be 

 that Mr. Xewcomb 's suggestion is good, but Mr. Stephens will tell you 

 that the people of Sacramento don't care very much about having 

 conventions there. Sacramento being a large commercial city, and a 

 very prosperous one; they are so engaged in commercial pursuits they 

 do not encourage the State Fruit Growers' Convention as they should. 

 Of course, we held it there last year and they assisted us all they could. 

 Sacramento is really the place where these conventions ought to be 

 held, and so long as Ave are going to hold neighborhood meetings any- 

 how, it Avill not make so much difference to you. We are going to have 

 one in Santa Rosa and one in Lodi, and they have been promised all 

 OA^er the State in fact, and Ave Avill get to them before your next crop 

 comes in. They will be business conventions. We will not consider 



