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 The bottles were then recorked and resealed, and the expanded oil sold at trade prices as the genuine Italian product." At said meeting a resolution was adopted instructing the Secretary to notify Secretary Rubini that the chamber would do what it could in suppressing the evil, but that it was almost powerless to act for the reason that no California law prohibited the importation of oil, no matter what its character may be. This memorial, forwarded to the Italian Government, requested also that no adulterated goods be allowed to be shipped from Italian ports to this country.

I will then say in conclusion of this chapter: let us select such varieties of the olive tree as are universally acknowledged to rank among the best, both for pickling and oil-making; let us choose only temperate regions, so that our trees cannot be affected either by too much heat or too severe cold weather; let us plant them on the dry and sunny slopes of our hills where quicker production and finer quality will be obtained; and when, as a natural result, we make and serve to consumers a pure oil we can compete successfully with the foreign adulterations in all the markets of the world, if we can ever begin to supply our immense home consumption, which alone will absorb all that we can produce for many generations to come.