Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1880-12-17

Mr.. P. J. Barrstto on the Proposition ID
Merge the Southern District horticultural
and Agricultural Eocisties-His Reply to
Mr.. Holt. of the Riverside Press and Ror'
ticulturist.
EDITOR HERALD: My attention
has just been called to letter from
Mr.. L.. M. Holt, addressed to the
members of the Southern Califor-
MIA Horticultural Society, which
appears in the issue of December
18th Of the Riverside Press and
HorticulturSst, to which wish,
through your columns, to make q
brief reply.
must, in the first place, take
exceptions to having the members
| CT the Southern California Horti-
cultural Society associate or in
any way confound the Sixth Dis
trict Agricultural Association with
the defunct Southern District Ag-
ricultural Society,". as Mr.. Holt too
evidently proposes they should do.
The Sixth District Agricultural
Association is entirely a new insti-
tuition and in no wise accountable
for the past acts or mistakes Of the
management Of the Southern Dis
trict Agricultural Society. It was
created under law passed by the
last Legislature empowering the
Governor of the State to appoint
such Directors as he thought suita-
BILE and capable to form and con-
duct an association for the advance
ment of the agricultural and horti-
cultural interests of the district.
In due course Of time these APP
pointments were made, and thus
the Sixth District Agricultural As.
ISOLATION came into existence.
The Board of Directors ia not
composed of race-track men or
horss-j jockeys, as Mr.. Holt seems
pleased to assume, but Of men who
are quite as much or probably more
Interested in agricultural and hor-
ticultural pursuits than they are
in either horses or cattle, and of
m en- whose desire and intention 1t
Is to conduct this new institution
for the advancement of agriculture
and horticulture and all things
thereto appertaining, and at the
same time to make it q credit and
honor to Southern California.
The law under which these Dis.
trict Agricultural Associations
have been created is very impera.
tive aud compels each Association
to hold an ANNUAL fair, at which it
10 obligatory to make exhibits of
all agricultural and horticultural
products, together with such me-
chanical Implements as may be
had in the district; and the only
reason that the Sixth District AS
ISOLATION last October made their
exhibits in the horticultural Pa
vilion and paid the premiums which
they did pay upon such exhibits
was the fact that this was q part of
an agreement Of unity, made with
the Directors of the Horticultural
Society several weeks previous to
the holding of their Fair in Ooto-
Der last; and I am happy to say
that what Mr.. Holt Is pleased to
term the "race-track management
has to the letter, in good faith, car
ried out their agreement with the
horticultural Society, assisting
them with their Fair and paving
every cent which they agreed to
pay.
Now, as to the question of the
unity of these two Associations, 1t
Is al end which has not been
sought after or in any wise sOlicit.
ed by the Board of Directors Of the
Sixth District Association, or by
any member Of it; but, on the cou-
trary, whatsoever has been done
towards this unity had its origin
In the board of management,Qf the
horticultural Society.
AT one of our first meetings after
having received our appointments
we were waited upon by commit
tee from the DirectorS OF the Horti-
cultural Society, with the request
from that body that, instead of our
making exhibits at our Fair, to be
held in the coming October, of ag-
ricultural and horticultural pro-
ducts, in opposition to the Horti-
cultural Society, that we should
join with that society and use our
influence and best endeavors to
make their Fair, to be held at the
same time in the Horticultu-
raj Pavilion, q grand sue.
cess, making our exhibits in
that building, and donating the
money to pay the premiums there
on, they At the same time inform.
ing us that it was the desire of the
Directors Of the horticultural So
ciety to unite these two Associa-
tIoas. To place the horticultural
Society, together with the proper.
ty appertaining to 1t, unuer the
control and management Of the
Sixth District Agricultural Asso-
citation was the first step towards
this much talked of unity. But it did
not stop there. Not by any means.
At frequent intervals during the
summer we either received com.
mittees or individual members of
the Horticultural Board at our
meetings, or were invited to send
committees to their Board, to con-
suit upon and mature the plans for
the final contamination of this
unity, or more properly speaking,
merging Of the Southern CalifOr.
MIA Horticultural Society, 30 far as
the Directors Of said Society were
concerned, with the Sixth District
Agricultural Association; until,
finally, about the latter part Of Au-
gust, an agreement WAS entered
into and signed by q majority of
the Directors of these two assoCia.
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