PROCEEDINGS. OF THIRTY-SIXTH FRUIT-GROWERS ' CONVENTION. 153 



Resolution Regarding Standardization. 



Resolved, That the fruit industry of California has reached a point which demands a stand- 

 ardizing of all deciduous fruit packs, prepared for interstate shipments. Placer, Solano, and 

 possibly other counties have or will adopt standards for their districts, which we heartily com- 

 mend. We recommend that all sections of the State unite, so far as practicable, in having the 

 standard of the varieties of fruit uniform, the markings designating the quality the same, and 

 that all fruit shipped be packed in standard dimension boxes only. 



Resolution on Overproduction of Fruit. 



Whereas, Several varieties of fruits and grapes seem to be near or actually suffering from 

 overproduction or underconsumption; and 



Whereas, The great and growing demand for the Smyrna figs is so far ahead of the supply 

 and the product so excellent; and 



Whereas, The profitable areas for almond production are so limited and the demand so 

 great and not likely ever to be exceeded; therefore, be it 



Resolved, That we earnestly recommend the planting and propagation of these two excel- 

 lent fruits, also Bartlett pears, wherever the conditions are suitable and they have been proven 

 out. 



PRESIDENT JEFFREY. Would the committee have any objec- 

 tion to putting Bartlett pears in there? There is one county in the 

 Sacramento Valley where they are trying to eradicate the pear blight 

 so they can begin planting again. 



MR. KELLOGG. We have no objection to including that. 



PRESIDENT JEFFREY. One of these meetings which you recom- 

 mend was held in Sutter County, and they took this matter tip and 

 discussed it thoroughly, the fact that they were trying to eliminate the 

 pear blight in that entire county and give the orchardists a chance to plant 

 Bartlett pears, and by passing these resolutions, especially when there 

 isn't a nurseryman on this committee, it is really a beneficial act for 

 this convention to express its ideas on what particular lines of fruit 

 culture should be extended and what should be curtailed. 



MR. J FDD. I move the adoption of the resolution as amended. 



The motion was duly seconded. 



MR. STEPHENS. I. for one. am opposed to the resolution. I am 

 opposed to it from a conscientious standpoint, because we don't know 

 what the outcome of the planting of these varieties will be. Ninety- 

 five per cent of the literature sent out to induce people to come here 

 recommends the planting of certain varieties and there is no one par- 

 ticular variety that has been recommended more strongly than Tokay 

 grapes — peaches and everything you can think of. I, for one. don't 

 propose to take the responsibility to say to any person here or any 

 person in the State, set out Smyrna figs, almonds, pears or anything 

 else, simply because Ave do not know and we can not look into the future 

 far enough to know what result would come from such recommenda- 

 tion. It might be an inducement for thousands of acres to be set out, 

 not only upon land that would produce those things as they should be 

 and as nature requires, but also upon land that would not be adapted 

 to their growth and their production. Not being able to go out and 

 test the land, the man who would invest his means in there would go 

 upon our recommendation, and he might be the sufferer to a great 

 degree, from a financial standpoint, and possibly his all. from that 

 standpoint. And I do not believe that it is within the province of this 

 convention. I do not believe that we should undertake to advise any 

 man what to do in regard to the varieties of deciduous or other fruits 

 that he should set out. We have had an example, and there are thou- 

 sands of growers that are absent to-day for the reason that they believe 

 that they can not afford the expense of attending this convention, that 



