The record-union., 1895-11-07

/ fruit sales was taken up, and Mr..
| Sprague said that existing methods or
opening and supplying markets for
fruit had proved insufficient during
the past season and would be much
more so with each succeeding year.
! There must be cooperation, and that
can only come through persistent con-
sultation and discussion by fruit-groW-
/ erS throughout the State. There must
be organization, like the two great po-
litical parties have, which enables their
leaders to marshal and direct them so
that they make whole States vote as
they wish. He argued the necessity of
cooperation among the fruit-growers
throughout the State.
! i. f. Adams said that if co-opera-
ton is successful, it must be by means
of individual effort and financial sur
| Vival. The same law applies to the
farmer as to the merchant, the same
! force operates upon them both. In his
opinion, cooperation is the easiest and
! the best way of doing business and for
that reason would gradually but
! slowly win its way to success. He in
Stanced the rise and growth of the
California Fruit Exchange, and the
benefits obtained by the growers from
! it
Secretary Lelong read an essay by
PhilO T. Hersey on the outlook for
! PruneS." He said that last year with
a crop not sufficient for home conSump-
ton, the California growers were offer
! ing their crop in New York for less than
the French are getting for theirs, laid
down at home. This, he thought, was
due to bad management. Growers must
! concentrate and protect their products
ana put the best on the market.
| j. 7. Bogue of MarySville thought
that the production of fruit in Califor-
| mia had reached it's highest point and
would decline henceforth.
| Nj. LelOng next read an essay on
Shall We Dip Our Prunes?" by H. N.
BarngroW of San Jose. He said that
dipping prunes in I've checked the skin
and facilitated drying and it was
! largely practiced. 1t was found, how
! ever that the result was uneven on ac-
count of lack of uniformity of ripeness
AMI amount of sugar. Then pricking
was taken up and various machines
have been perfected and are much used.
! He thought it the better and more
cloanly method
! D 7. Fowler, for the committee on the
! Presidents annual address, reported,
recommending the careful perusal of
the address by the fruit-growers of the
State, as the many suggestions in it, if
properly carried out, will have a tend
| ency to improve existing conditions in
| the growing and marketing of fruits.
It agrees with the suggestion of the
| President for a plan to combine the
! fruit products of the State and bring
| them under one general system of ship
ping and marketing. Such system
should embrace his idea of ten or more
| travelling agents throughout the East
ern towns to open up and maintain
markets for green and dried fruits. 1t
! recommends the appointment of a COM
| mittee of nine by the convention to or
| ganiZe an incorporation for the opening
| and establishment of such markets and
| the proper advertising of our fruit pro-
ducts, and also committee of nine to
consider the whole subject of State in
spection. It also favOrs the asking for
an appropriation of 50 900 for use in
| further search for predaciOus insects,
and $1,000 for the State Board of Agri-
| culture. and that a committee of five be
appointed to consider the subject of
asking an appropriation from the State
to establish a Bureau of Information.
| The report was adopted.
N w Motheral spoke of the condi-
ton of the raisin-growers. He said that
this year in his section they only picked
the choicest grapes in their vineyards
| for raisins, for fear that they would
overstock the market. Many Of them
sold their raisinS for cent pound IN
the sweat-box. The commission men can
| borrow money from the banks, but the
| farmers cannot If the latter could get
what money they want, at low interest,
| they could get along. The only way to
get relief is for the farmers to do their
own business, in their own way. The
commission men and the growers should
not be enemies. On the contrary, they
should work together as their interests
| lie in the same direction. He should be
glad if some remedy can be found that
! will save their homes that are slowly
slipping away from their grasp
Mr. Weinstock asked if there was an
overproduction of raisins, and Mr..
Motheral said he thought not, If the
product is properly distributed. Califor-
mia last year shipped 1900 tons-about
| two-thirds of the amount consumed in
the United States. The grower gets next
to nothing, and there are so many mid
dlemen that the consumer pays large
price.
In answer to a question by Mr.. Vein
stock as to how the Mediterranean
grower could compete with one cent
pound in the sweat-box, Mr.. Motheral
said that the wages there were very
| low, and there was difference of
! twenty cents a box in transportation
rates The tariff has also been re-
moved.
Mr. Weinstock said that the growers
could not compete with water transpor-
tation, and it was evident that the peo
to have a proper tariff placed on raisins,
and also try not to have to bid against
each other in the East in their efforts
to sell their products.
Mr.. Fowler said that, although the
Mckinley tariff placed two and half
cents a pound on raisins, the price
! steadily declined under that tariff
which could not maintain the price.
Mr.. Weinstock thought that, in that
case, although there might be conces-
! siOns secured on freight and the tariff
restored, the hardest job would prob
! ably be to secure cooperation among
the growers.
A long discussion ensued on the out
look for relief to the raisin industry, a
variety of suggestions being made.
Mr. Lelong called attention to the fact
| that many second class raisins were
packed and sold as first-class and he
thought that the decline in price might
possibly be largely due to that fact.
It was decided to have an evening
session, at which Mr.. Fowler would read
/ a paper on THE Outlook for Raisins,"
and the discussion of the days ques-
tions be resumed.
In the evening the convention was
called to order by B. NJ. Lelong, the Sec
rotary, who announced that President
| Ellwood Cooper, on reaching the hotel,
was informed by wire of his wife's ill
ness, and at once left for home.
Hon Abbot Kinney of Los Angeles
was called to preside.
D r Fowler of Fresno delivered an
address on the raisin outlook.
The address was very exhaustive and
elected much discussion
The convention will meet again this
morning.
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