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quantities will have to be imported, and it will require careful 

 work upon the part of our inspectors to see that none but clean 

 stock be allowed to enter. This fact you should each impress 

 upon your county inspectors. 



The discovery last season of the dreaded brown-tail moth 

 on shipments of seedlings from France makes it imperative 

 that further importations of this stock be closely examined. 



There has been much discussion the present season over the 

 matter of orchard smudging to prevent frost injury. I have 

 taken considerable time to investigate this matter both in 

 Medford district and at Grand Junction, Colorado, and am 

 inclined to think that some rather extravagant Claims have 

 been made as to the success obtained. While no doubt much 

 good has been accomplished there has also been considerable 

 money and effort wasted, and we need some very careful work 

 done along this line to determine what is feasible. Next spring 

 the members of the board should co-operate with the Horti- 

 cultural Department at the State Experiment Station in mak- 

 ing some careful tests. 



As nearly as I can judge of the results of the work done 

 in various places this season where the trees were of good 

 size and rather closely planted, and the foliage well developed 

 it was possible to raise the temperature to some extent and 

 to maintain it there during the danger season. The best 

 results were obtained where the work was begun before the 

 temperature had fallen. 



For the benefit of those who think that the fruit business 

 is already overdone I wish to call attention to the fact that 

 a great many carloads of apples are now being shipped into 

 Oregon and Washington from California points; that we 

 depend on California for fully one-half of our strawberry 

 supply, berries being shipped in from there for weeks after 

 our own are ripe, and that grapes are imported each year 

 from Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. 



There is yet room for the fruit industry in Oregon to 

 expand. 



W. K. Newell, 

 Commissioner at Large. 



APRIL MEETING, 1910. 



Gaston, Oregon, April 11, 1910. 



To the Honorable State Board of Horticulture: 



Once more has the time arrived for taking account of fruit 

 crop prospects and conditions. Judging from the appearance 

 of the trees in those parts of the State which I have visited 



