20 Report of State Board of Horticulture. 



panies are discussing the advisability of not operating their 

 plants this season. Such a course would dump a lot of fruit 

 on local markets, with disastrous results to the growers. 



The detail work of county inspectors in the first district 

 has been progressing slowly because of the difRculty of getting 

 qualified inspectors. Appointments have been made recently, 

 however, which will insure more vigorous enforcement of the 

 law in all counties. County courts in this district are awake 

 to the vital necessity of keeping inspectors in the field if we 

 are to build up the fruit industry and make certain the econ- 

 omic develoDment of our section. The necessity of constant 

 watchfulness to prevent the spread and to stamp out apple 

 anthracnose, the "dead spot" disease, has excited intense in- 

 terest in the minds of county judges and commissioners. If 

 it were not for the wise support of these authorities we could 

 accomplish little in the line of inspection. Our counties are 

 so large that an inspector must be employed continuously if 

 improved conditions are to be enforced in all sections. It is 

 Dleasing to note, however, that in Yamhill County, where the 

 battle to establish respect for the law was fought out last 

 year, more progress is being made in cleaning up old orchards 

 than elsewhere in the State. Inspectors find but little Opposi- 

 tion to their Orders to renovate. From this time forward 

 enforcement of the law will simply be a matter of constant 

 watchfulness and attention to detail. 



M. O. LOWNSDALE, 



Commissioner fo7' First District. 



