8 Report of State Board of Horticulture. 



I trust that we can today formulate some plan whereby our 

 inspectors can make some accurate reports of conditions as 

 they exist in their respective counties. 



The tenth biennial report of the board is just now coming 

 from the press; I am very sorry that it has been so long 

 delayed, as it should have been printed earlier. In spite of 

 our best efforts it seemed impossible to get the material ready 

 for the State Printer soon enough for him to get it printed 

 before the legislature met, hence we had to wait until that 

 work was out of the way. I do not know as there was any 

 one to blame, and the only remedy I see is for us to be a little 

 earlier next time and then demand precedence. 



In preparing this report the aim has been to condense mat- 

 ters a great deal in comparison with former reports; to cut 

 out all Alling and all matter not directly applicable to our own 

 conditions. Although far short of what I had hoped to have 

 it, I trust that it will be found of some benefit to our growers. 

 We have a generous allowance of them this time, having been 

 granted a 50 per cent increase in the number printed. 



There is need for extreme vigilance in the matter of the 

 inspection of incoming nursery Stocks, seedlings as well as 

 other stock. There is such an amount of planting now being 

 done in the State that our local supplies of trees are totally 

 inadequate and a vast amount of importing is now being done. 



As there are no regions where trees are now grown in any 

 quantity that are free from pests, we are in grave danger 

 from these importations. I feel that a word should be said 

 here in appreciation of the careful work done by Inspector 

 E. C. Armstrong of Marion County in detecting the presence 

 of the justly dreaded brown-tail moth in a shipment of 

 nursery stock coming from France. He had never seen them 

 before but recognized them from the cuts and descriptions 

 that he had been studying. 



The alarm was immediately sounded and other shipments 

 from the same source were traced and thoroughly examined, 

 with the result that Oregon has been spared this scourge 

 for the time at least. 



The matter of national legislation regarding the size of 

 apple boxes, the grading of fruit, and the marking of the 

 packages is going to demand our attention the coming regulär 

 Session of congress. The Porter bill has been laid aside and 

 another measure but little less objectionable has been substi- 

 tuted and labeled a compromise measure, to which all the 

 interested parties are supposed to have agreed. 



This bill has been introduced by Representative Lafean of 

 Pennsylvania, and I understand will be pushed vigorously next 

 winter. We should bring the matter to the attention of our 



