The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1894-11-23

price of wheat in this country. The
great proportion of our wheat goes to
England and has TO compete with wheat
raised in half a dozen other countries.
The export price of wheat is increasing,
but this does not help the farmer, who
has to accept the price OF wheat at the
Liverpool mills. He adduced arguments
to show the folly of fixing the price of
wheat IN this country by the price in
Liverpool. Labor in India is 10 cents a
DAY, and cost of 30 cents per bushel lays
Indian wheat down in England, while it
costs In America from 81 TO 80 cents TO
lay 1t down at home. India wheat, how
| ever, is inferior to American. Siberian
wheat VIII also soon become formidable
factor Ia wheat competition. SO far from
ali The possible fields for wheat raising
having been exploited, many places aud
large amount OF country which have
never been opened up will yet become
available. Food products follow the laws
or other merchandise and only move
when wanted. AS modern appliances
ior carrying on work are added to cheap
labor II VIII still farther handicap fairly
paid labor. He knew of no greater
anomaly than that an Indian on the
Ganges should fix the price of wheat for
the American farmer.
II the farmers would resolve only to
raise enough wheat for their own use,
they could sell what little surplus they
had III their home markets and realize
their own price TOR it. Why should they
depend on Liverpool TO fix the price Of
thelr wheat any more than to Tx the
price OF their plows.
In Kansas this year "a per cent. of the
wheat Will be fed TO stock. 1t has far
/ greater food value than corn or other
| products. w g are buying one-half more
loou products from the Last than our
wheat brings us. We are buying the
wheat-fed pork and chickens OF Kansas
| ana sending our wheat thousands of
| miles to market. The fruit farmer does
not carry all his eggs in ono basket as
| the wheat farmer does. He raises Il little
| OF everything. Our climate is unfortu-
haLeiy against many cooperative indus
| tries. tie advised the farmers TO turn
! their attention toward dairy products as
! did the Danish farmers who found they
| were becoming bankrupt through wheat
raising and who made money by making
! butter.
| tie then spoke of the condition of the
! truit industry of the State. 1t practically
began ABOUT 1880, when it turned out
ABOUT 3SO carloads. Our exports of de-
clduous fruits show gain of l33 per
cent, and dried fruits, canned fruits,
oranges, raisins, etc., similar gains. We
commence shipping declduouS fruits in
May and cease in december; the others
we ship all year round, as we do Yege-
tables. The garden is becoming the close
companion OF the orchard in California
lie extension OF fruit-growing has added
a quarter OF u million to the population
OF The State. The railroad company
should help the growers to get their
| products 10 market at a profit to them.
| he stability OF the fruit interes: is threat
eneu by the experiences of 1893 and 1894,
ana, unless relief comes, the shipments
| .Nts frtf
Commissions for selling fruit are too
| high.
Ii Is not pleasant to know that we are
selling primes for six cents pound and
J the consumer i'll the East pays twelve
| Tor them. Let il be said TO the credit of
| the railroad that it only adds one anu a
! quarter cents TO the SIX we get, the rest is
added by other people. The buyer should
| get his prunes at nine or ten cents in
| order that he may use it as food and not
as a luxury. He did not believe that
! there would be an over-production of
prunes, provided that care was exercised
! in order to send iirst-claSs article prom
erly and honestly packed. With such
| fruit, a proper service and cheap rate of
transportation, the fruit industry should
be a success.
TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE.
Mr.. Motheral asked leave to present the
report OF the COMMITTEES on Transporta-
ton, which was granted,
Mr. NelnStock read 1t 10 the cOnyen-
ton, and Mr.. Block moved that it be re-
celyed and its contents Endorsed, which
was done, and the President OF the Cali
iornia Fruit Exchange was added to the
committee. The report is as follows:
Your Committee on TRANSPORTATION.
appointed by this convention, begs leave
to submit the following partial report:
That they have organized by the election
OF ii. w eiustock as Chairman and f. H.
Buck as Secretary; that il is the sense of
this committee that the fruit growers and
growers associations be requested to
send to the Chairman of this committee
resolutions stating what their ditfereuC
Localities require, and also TO furnish
such data as can be used by this COM
mittee TO show the disastrous results of
The past season; that tits the sense of this
committee that they wait upon the OIL
Gals of the Southern Pacific Company
and lay before them our demands for
lower rates for green and dried fruits and
faster time for green fruits; that they
hereby request the convention TO add To
this committee the President of the Cali
iornla Fruit Exchange; that this COM
mittee shall hold its next meeting in San
francisco, at the rooms of the Stale
Board of Horticulture, on Tuesday, De-
cenber llth, at O'Clock p. NJ"
FRUIT EXCHANGE.
The committee in relation to the Fruit
Exchange, on resolution recommends
lug that special committee of five be
appointed to inquire into the details of
exchange work and report to the couyen-
ton. reported that it had learned from
the President and Manager of the ex-
change that the expectations OF its found
ers had not been July realized on account
OF the difficulty i'll getting subscriptions
Tor stock. The committee was fully con-
WINGED that the business had been hon
estly carried on, ana earnestly RECON-
mended ii TO the earnest support and
confidence OF the convention and fruit
growers, as large results are involved.
and through The energy and perseverance,
OF It's officers Large sums OF money have
been saved 10 the growers.
The report was adop,e
NATIoNALIzATIoN.
Sprague of Los Angeles presented a
resolution tnat the railroads are the high
roads OF The nineteenth century and
should be owned aud controlled by the
Government; that the interests OF Cali
lorna demand that line of railroad
through the length OF the two great val
legs should De constructed aud onerated
or controlled by the Stale, and that the
Legislature be asked to submit To the
people such legislation as will secure the
early construction of such road; that it
Is the sense OF the convention that The
Government should foreclose its mort
cages on the Central and Union Pacific
Railroads AT their maturity, and assume
control OF them under such reguIatious of
service as VIII secure efficiency and vet
not extend tile evils of political patrou-
age.
The resolution was referred TO the Com
mlltee OH Resolutions.