The herald., 1893-11-24

best method OF overcoming the various
insects. scale and otherwise so detri-
mental to horticulture, ia by the intro
duction OF parasites; and,
Whereas, The efforts OF the state
board Of horticulture go far. in the in
PRODUCTION from foreign countries of snch
parasite have been crowned with signal
success.
Mr.. @. j. Berry, commissioner OF
Tulare county, arose and said:
II do now state most emphatically
that hereafter l will act as an agent for
my district to collect these specimens of
knot and the history for the professors.
They have repeatedly stated that they
wanted to conduct an examination and
now propose to give them the chance.
/ am tired OF having them give the same
old excuse OF not having received any
specimens or facts from the growers.
Now Mr.. Secretary want you to take
down my name and put me ON record in
regard to this matter"
Mr.. Berry's emphatic remarks were
received with great applause and Mr..
Tilden seconded him. The chair sug-
gested that if the gentleman would wait
until the professor had concluded his ad
dress it would help considerably.
Professor Hilgard beamed grateful
smile upon Mr.. Kinney and proceeded
to reply to the gentlemen.
He said that they must have facts in
making the experiments. Unless these
facts were sent they could do nothing as
they worked upon Facts and based their
conclusions on facts. He did not desire
to be hauled over the Goals when they
were unable to give the facts concerning
their desired Investigation, when the
necessary facts had not been received.
This fault lay with the grower and the
speaker did not think that the blame
the central station.
Mr.. Williams, a commissioner of San
Diego county, wanted to know il the
black knot, or rather root knot, was
contagious, and how it could be ascer-
tanned 80 ss I'd know when to quarantine
and when to destroy? The professor
replied that it was contagious.
Mr.. Lelong then proceeded to give the
result of extensive experiments he had
made in grating the knots to perfect
trees. He had found that none of the
trees had taken this knot. 1t was of
course possible that there was some sea-
son during the year when the disease
was contagious; had not as yet been
able to conduct very close or salts
factory search.
failed to send many samples for examin-
alton.
Mr.. Maslin wanted to know whether
the black knot on grape vines was
always caused by wounds? The pro-
fessor replied that it was 30. He had
never seen any that had not been caused
| by bore or insect wounds.
| During the course of Mr.. Lelong's
talk Professor Hilgard made his escape
to the rear of the stage and was not
called upon only few times later dur
ing the session.
Mr.. Boyd of Riverside took exception
to Professor Hilgard's statement in re-
gard to the soil of Riverside, and spoke
briefly.
Mr.. Lelong asked Mr.. Bogue and Mr..
Stabler to tell the convention the result
OF his incubation of certain orchards.
This the gentleman was unable to do,
and Mr.. Scott Chapman was introduced
to speak upon some practical expert
ences in orchard fertilization. He
spoke without notes and was listened to
attentively. He told OF the various
processes he had used in his orchards,
which had been accompanied by gener-
| ally satisfactory results.
He was followed by Prof. s. M. Wood
bridge, who spoke upon Irrigation and
Fertilization. The professor delivered
rather a fowery and elahetate introduce
ton, and in fact permeatsd his entire
talk with rhetorical effusions. After
| these subjects had been treated q gem
eral discussion was held about the gum
and root diseases. There was lively
talk between Mr.. Boyd and Mr.. Sprague.
but finally matters were adjusted by
Mr.. Adams. who offered the following
resolution in regard to the claim of
Young and Powers of San Francisco
against the horticultural commissioners
for legal services:
Resolved, That this convention, rep
resenting more directly than any other
body the horticultural interests of Cali
fornia, acknowledges the indebtedness
of that interest for money honestly and
necessarily expended in it's behalf in
promoting legislation for the protection
of our orchards from predaceouB insects.
That the money is due for professional
services rendered by persons not them
selves horticulturslist in determining
really intricate questions of constitu-
tional law, and repeatedly urging the
same before legislative committees in
our behalf.
That the value OF the services rem
dered is made evident from the fact that
law enacted in our interest was promptly
contested in the courts and sustained
by them, thus proving the soundness of
the legal advice given as the result of
which we for the first time have legal
means of protecting the community
from the consequences of individual ne
glect and indifference.
That our representatives, acting in
our interest and at our request, have
now been personally sued for the liabil-
tiles incurred for the horticultural in
terest in the exercise of their discretion;
that the sum due and for which our rep
resentatives have been sued, is 5000,
which is compromise amount for
which the claim can be now settled, and
Resolved, further, That Mr.. Lelong
be, and is hereby, appointed commit
tee of one to collect, in behalf of this
convention, from the fruit growers of
the state the sum allowed stated, to be
due with cost of postage. printing and
clerical assistance added.
The resolution was passed. Mr.. Grif-
fifth, who had assumed the chair, then
spoke in behalf of the entertainment
committee. Excursions to Indio by the
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