The herald., 1897-11-17
Co0per's Annual Address
Delivered
jELLIEs MADE OF GLUCOSE
SHOW THE NEED OF BETTER
ORGANIZATION
The Years Work Of the Growers and
Shippers' Association Reviewed.
Committees Appointed

Associated Press Special Wire.
SACRAMENTO, Nov. 16.-The State
Fruit Growers Convention met this
forenoon in the Capitol building, Elwood
Cooper of Santa Barbara presiding. In
his annual address, President Cooper
pointed out the imperative necessity for
better organization on the part of the
fruit growers, and said that unless more
favorable conditions were presented the
growers would have to quit the business
He alluded to the discovery that inn
mense quantities of jellies have been
made in San Francisco and placed upon
the market as a California product, in
the composition of which not the slight
est trace of natural fruit entered, and
which was entirely composed of glucose
matter and coloring dyes.
He said that this was the fact, not
withstanding that tons upon tons of the
natural fruit were seeking market,
and he said that it was the duty of every
orchardist to insist upon the enforce
ment OF the pure food law and to urge
imprisonment as we'll as the fining Of
violators of that law.
He also dwelt upon the fact that the
United States was annually importing
millions of dollars worth of sugar from
Germany when it had the facilities to
produce in plenty sugar from beets. He
also gave figures showing the entire
practicability of this culture in Califor-
mia.
He also spoke emphatically in favor
of the strict enforcement of the law re-
quiring Boards of Supervisors to ap-
point commissioners for the several
counties, whose duties shall be to rid
orchards of pests.
The afternoon session was opened with
the reading of a report of the years
work of the California Fruit Growers
and Shippers association by it's presi-
dent, II. Weinstock.
The report was largely statistical,
dealing with the shipments of fruit dur
ing 1887 as compared with 1896.
In 1896 4047 cars were sent east; in 1897
526S cars were sent up to November 18th,
tow hich some 200 or 300 cars would have
to be added to get the total shipment to
the end of the season.
The California Fruit Growers and
| Shippers association had, the speaker
| said, been organized for the purpose of
gathering information regarding fruit
distribution; to establish consolidated
auction salesrooms in the larger eastern
cities, and to keep such salesrooms free
and open to all.
| The auction salesrooms had been es-
tablished, the speaker said, and had been
operated apparently to the satisfaction
| of all concerned.
During the past year abnormal condi-
tions had prevailed in the east, chief of
which was the enormous crop of straw
berries and an excessive crop of eastern
pears and grapes and large shipments
of Bartlett pears from Oregon.
| When the report had bene received
President Cooper announced the follow
| ing committees:
! Marketing and transportation-R. D.
Stephens of Sacramento; B. +. Walton
of Yuba City, F. M. Fighter Of Campbell.
| A. Block of Santa Clara and DIR. I. s..
Eshelman of Fresno.
| Legislation-Prof. c. w. Childs of San
Jose, Robert Curtis Of San Bernardino,
3. e. Hutchinson of Fresno, A. p. Hall
of Fenryn and II. p. Stabler of Yuba
City.
| Resolutions-William Johnson Of
Courtland, John S. Dore of Fresno, e. HI.
Rust of Los Angeles, j. A. Filcher Of San
Francisco and J. T. Bonge of Yuba City.