The record-union., 1897-11-19


taste to that of the pure oil.
Professor A. p Hayne said he agreed
with Mr.. Cooper as to the gloomy out
look and he did not agree with General
Chapman that it would be easy to stop
| the adulteration of oil. He spent four
years in the olive regions of Europe and
saw hundreds of acres of olive trees dug
up and the reason given was that they
could not com0ete with cotton seed oil.
This was people that for hundreds of
years, too. had cultivated taste for
pure olive oil. We know that we are
buying a spurious article and. it is OPEN
ly sold in market and yet the people say
nothing about it. Adulteration, he
thought, cannot be stopped until public
opinion favors stopping it. He be-
lieved that cotton oil was dangerous and
1t was certainly chemically different
from olive oil. While chemistry has not
yet found any definite poison in it,
chemistry is yet in it's infancy, and the
physiological test has lot yet been
made by the physicians.
Mr.. Cooper said there are two laws to
prevent adulteration of olive oil, but
they are neither of them enforced.
General Chi3man said that the fruit
growers must take up the Sight and see
that the law is executed. There are
CROUCH olive growers to see that it is
enforced, if they will take hold of it.
II was because the people all over the
country We're interested in butter max
ing that the making of oleomargarine
was controlled by law.
Mr.. Berwick suggested that Inspector
! Dockery be turned loose among the SELL
ers of spurious olive oil as he had done
among the milk men, and turn them up
side down as he had the milk men.
LANGFORD TALKS.
Senator Lan-ford was called on and
said the LEGISLATURE had done it's part
b. passing a pure food law and the
growers must do the rest. He had come
| here TO learn something, but had not
! found any remedies for the bad state of
! the fruit growers. He had some ideas,
! however on the green fruit question.
| The fruit grower raises his fruit, buys
| boxes, etc, and sends it to a stranger
1 whom he never saw or heard of. The
consignee has no money invested in it
and therefore cares very little about
selling it. This is all wrong. He did not
I
! but laid the blame on the
| transportation companies were formed
| by the railroad company to rob the
| fruit growers of their profits and the
commission men crept into these COM
panies. The .rowers must come to-
gether and stand together to save them
selves. Do as other people do. Sell your
goods at home or ship them yourselves
and sell them and collect for them your
selves.
Mr. Earl sold his peaches for him and
told him he lost money on them, but he
did not believe it. The fruit-growers
must change their methods, or they
would soon go in rags.
Mr.. CooOer said he would like to call
! Senator Langford's attention to the
olive oil adulteration law and the pure
| food law, neither of which could be
much improved but no appropriation or
provision was made for enforcing them
and that was the reason they were not
executed.
TO PRINT DISCUSSIONS.
A resolution was introduced by DR..
Eshelman, reciting the folly of the
/
ing their fruit for sale and recommend
| ing that a committee of three be ap-
pointed to collate the papers and discus
sions on the subject of marketing
and publish them in small
pamphlet for distribution among the
growers OF the State.
Mr.. Berwick thought the State Agri-
cultural Society could disseminate the
! knowledge, but he was reminded OF the
fact that the State Printing Office is
closed for want of funds.
/ L. A. Gordon said ii was nearly time
| the fruit-growers took the matter OF
marketing into their own hands. 1t was
/ preposterous to say that all the intelll-
gence in the State is combined in the
heads of few commission men and that
they are the only ones who can market
the fruit.
A member said he had listened to
this sort of thing for two years past
and nothing had been done. The only
thing to do is to stop shipping. Ii the
growers will all do so the shippers Will
] soon come to them and buy and pay
for it. He had never shipped ana mao
! always made money, for he sold his frult
at home and Sot his money. 1t would
| not rot for want of purchaser, ana II
If does the fruit grower will not be any
| worse off.
Senator Laneford said that to stop
shipping might turn the Eastern market
over 70 Georgia and other States. The
only remedy he saw was comblnatlon
and organization.
SOL RUNYON'S MEMORY.
| General Chapman offered the follow
ing resolution, which was adopted
unanimously by a rising vote, ana the
| convention took a recess till l:oU p. m.
Whereas. 1t has pleased the all-wlse
Creator to remove by death Sol Run
| Won, a noted horticulturist, our friend,
| and n member of the State Board OF
Horticulture: therefore, be 1t
Resolved. That in his death the horti-
culturists of the State have lost a
steadfast friend and the State faith
/ full servant; and, be it further
Resolved, That the Fruit Growers of
California in convention assembled. this
/ 18th day of November 1897. at Sac
/ ramento, California. hereby extend to
! the family of our deceased friend our
heartfelt sympathy in this their great
est possible bereavement; further
Resolved That this resolution be
spread upon the records of this con-
vention ard that a copy be engrossed
and astested by the officers and trans
mittad to the family Of the deceased.
Afteruoou Session.