The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-05
GOVERNMENT TO PROTECT
STATES FRUIT INDUSTRY
UNIVERSITY REGENTS THINK 1T
THE MOST FEASIBLE PLAN.
Chair of Forestry at Berkeley-Legis-
lature to Foster CALIFORNIA;
Cattle Interests.

It was decided yesterday morning at a
conference of the regents of the univer-
sity and representatives OF various in
dustries at the Mark Hopkins Institute
of Art that the proper protection OF our
fruit industry was possible only if put
under the jurisdiction OF the United
States Government.
This decision was brought about by
Professor J. Wickson, who suggested that
all efforts looking to the prevention of
the expectation of infected fruits to for
eign countries should be national in char
acter He drew his conclusion from the
rigorous inspection of the meat exports
from this country by the Department of
Agriculture, by which extraordinarily
good results have been obtained.
The conference is the result of the re-
lection of a shipment of fruit by the Ger
man authorities. Professor Wickson read
4 letter from the Consul at Frankfort, in
which the latter stated that the Presi
dents message had to some extent settled
the alarm created by the alleged infected
fruit for the reason that the so-called San
Jose scale is effectively destroyed by each
of the several methods of drying and ar
tificial evaporation.
Professor Wickson also stated that the
Goblin moth on apples could be got rid of
by judiCiouS spraying of paris green
and 80 per cent of the crop saved from the
insects QepreQatlOnS.
The discussion was brought to an end
when Wickson said that the bill intro
duced by Congressman Barlow in Con-
gress providing for the regulation of the
importation of nursery stock and fruit
that may be utilized in interstate com
merce and for expectation will effectually
cope with the perplexing question. The
Department of Agriculture will be COM
municated with after q conference of the
State Board of Horticulture, Board of
Trade, Manufacturers and Producers
Association and the shippers of Califor-
MIA products, and will be asked to lend its
earnest cooperation for the passage of
the proposed law.
The committee of regents settled the
consideration Of the dairy and cattle in
tereSts by requesting the Dairymen's AS
ISOLATION to have a bill passed by the
Legislature to enlarge the scope Of the
work Of the university and a proper ap-
preparation for the establishment of
practical dairy school. which will be loca-
ted at Menlo Park at the end of the year.
Professor Wickson recommended the APP
pointment of travelling practical dairy
expert to give instruction and needed
help to the dairymen of the State. The
bill will also provide for a qualified vet
erinarian to inspect live stock.
In the afternoon the question of the
ly discussed and ably presented by Eli
oft McAllster of the Sierra Club He
stated that Cornell University had estab-
lshed a school of forestry in the Adj
branch be maintained in the University
of California for the teaching of sub
ject which was of momentous import
to this State. Chairman Phelps said that
the university should not take the initia-
tive in the matter, and it was decided
that Mr.. McAllister draft bill providing
for a chair of forestry and its necessary
adjuncts. and that the Miners Associa-
ton, which is vitality interested in the pro
lection of watersheds along the rivers,
take the matter In hand.