Biennial ReportSuperintendent State Printing., 1888 - Fruit-culture |
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ABBOT KINNEY acid acres apples apricot B. M. LELONG better black scale Board of Horticulture buds California carbonic acid caustic soda cent coast codlin moth color Convention cottony cushion scale County crop cultivation DELEGATE dried fruit drier experience favor feet foliage forest French prune fruit growers Fruit Pests gallons of water grapes ground grow grown growth half HATCH Horticultural Society hundred Icerya inches infested insect Inspector of Fruit irrigation killed KLEE land larvæ lemon moisture nursery olive orange trees orchard packing Paris green peach moth pear phylloxera planted pounds President produced remedy root San Francisco San José Santa Barbara Santa Rosa scale insects season Secretary seedling soap soil Sonoma Sonoma County sprayed spring sulphur sulphuric acid thousand timber tion TOMPKINS trays twenty Valley varieties walnut wash woolly aphis
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Page 7 - Governor, and to the honorable the Senate and Assembly of the State of California...
Page 156 - Ohio, presented the following resolution, which was Adopted unanimously : Resolved, That the thanks of this Convention be...
Page 10 - Section 17. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to attend all meetings of the Board and to procure records of the proceedings and correspondence, to collect books, pamphlets, periodicals and other documents containing valuable information relating to horticulture, and to preserve the same; to collect statistics and other information showing the actual condition and progress of horticulture...
Page 12 - Agriculture shall prescribe and publish such uniform regulations as they deem necessary and any person who violates such regulations shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and may be punished by a fine of not more than $500, or by imprisonment not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Page 10 - SEC. 11. The Treasurer shall receive all moneys belonging to the Board, and pay out the same only for bills approved by it, and shall annually render a detailed account to the Board.
Page 163 - Dresden, each having a dog for the "near horse" harnessed, while the "oil horse" is a woman, with her left hand grasping the wagon tongue to give it direction, and the right hand passed through a loop in the rope, which is attached to the axle, binding her shoulder; thus harnessed, woman and dog trudge along together, pulling miraculous loads in all sorts of weather. I mention this merely to show the difference between our American system and the system of some other countries. We quite frequently...
Page 11 - Board, and to preserve records of its proceedings and correspondence; to collect books, pamphlets, and periodicals, and other documents containing valuable information relating to horticulture, and to preserve the same; to collect statistics and other information showing the actual condition and progress of horticulture in this State and elsewhere; to correspond with...
Page 12 - Commissioners shall hold their office for the term of three years, and until their successors are qualified; except that of the Commissioners first appointed one shall hold for one year, one for two years, and the third for three years. The Commissioners first appointed shall decide by lot which of them shall hold for one year, which for two years, and which for three years. After the first Commissioners are appointed, the Board of Supervisors shall appoint one Commissioner every year, such appointment...
Page 240 - Resolved, that it is the sense of this convention that the People's party ought to place in nominaton its own candidate fojr President and vice president of the United States, and likewise party candidates for presidential electors.
Page 123 - British provinces that there are few old residents of the interior of those districts who are not able to testify to its truth as a matter of personal observation. My own recollection suggests to me many instances of this sort ; and I remember one case...