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enough, there is little objection on this score. The holes form little or 

 no objection. It must be remembered that not one-half the cultivation 

 is necessary as in the other system. Besides, there is nothing good in 

 this world without its corresponding evil. 



It has been found that orange trees that are twenty years old and 

 upwards, which were wilted, were revived by the application of two 

 hundred gallons of water per tree in this way, and remained in a fresh 

 condition for over thirty days. How much less might have answered 

 the purpose will be determined in the future by actual measurement. 



The system of sub-irrigation or inter-irrigation is especially adapted 

 to small flower-beds and garden purposes generally. 



Recess till 2:30 o'clock p. m. 



AFTERNOON SESSION-FOTJKTH DAT. 



Friday, December 15, 1899. 



At 2:30 o'clock the convention reassembled. President Cooper in the 

 chair. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON MR. ADAMS' REPORT. 



Wm. Johnston, Edw. Berwick, and Will A. Coulter, as the com- 

 mitter to which was referred the report of Edward F. Adams on the 

 proposed free public market in San Francisco, submitted the following 

 report: . 



Your committee, from the data at hand and from information secured on such short 

 notice, believe that the establishment and maintenance of a free public market in San 

 Francisco, regulated and conducted in accordance with the provisions of the Act of the 

 Legislature of California for that purpose, will be of great benefit, not only to the pro- 

 ducers of the products to be sold, but to the citizens of San Francisco who are the 

 purchasers of such products. 



Your committee is advised and believe that the provisions of the law providing for 

 said free public market have been ignored, or feebly and ineffectually carried out, by 

 the officials charged with that duty, either through apathy and indifference, or some 

 claimed defect in the law, or some reasons or motives unknown to your committee. 



Your committee therefore report and recommend the adoption by this convention 

 of the following resolutions : 



Resolved, That the establishment of a free public market in the city of San Francisco, 

 under the terms of the law*passed for that purpose, is a duty imposed, not only by 

 legislative enactment, but by the interests of thousands of producers throughout the 

 State and of thousands of consumers within that city. 



