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the Winter of 1909-10; three thousand acres in Josephine 

 County, and five thousand acres in Douglas County. In fact, 

 had it been possible to have procured the young trees of vari- 

 eties desired, many more acres would have been planted. 



Four county inspectors were on duty every day during the 

 Winter inspecting nursery stock at Medford, Ashland, Central 

 Point, and Gold Hill in Jackson County. I have instructed 

 all inspectors to make rigid inspections for insect pests and 

 fungous diseases injurious to fruit trees, and in many 

 instances they found diseased stock from other states which 

 were condemned and not permitted to be planted. The fruit 

 grower has enough to do, starting with healthy nursery stock, 

 to keep it healthy during its maturing to a bearing age. 



The great demand and high prices for nursery stock 

 stimulate unscrupulous tree dealers to ship in nursery stock 

 that they evidently know is diseased, taking the chance that 

 it might slip by the inspectors and be delivered to the con- 

 signees. Through the rigid inspection had in the third dis- 

 trict the past two years these unscrupulous tree dealers have 

 not profited to the extent of their desires. In one instance 

 two cars of trees were shipped to Medford ; part of the stock 

 was healthy and good, but in each bündle of 25 trees in the 

 two cars about half were diseased. When the condition of 

 the stock was discovered by the inspector at Medford and 

 the consignor's attention called to the diseased trees among 

 the healthy, the seller demanded an inspection and a segrega- 

 tion of the healthy trees from the diseased ones. The inspector 

 notified me, and I at once quarantined the two cars, and would 

 not permit an inspection and segregation excepting at the 

 expense of the consignor. The consignor wanted the diseased 

 trees after segregation to ship back home, presumably to ship 

 to some other district where the insDection is less exacting. 



I had the diseased stock burned, and the healthy stock I 

 permitted to be delivered on payment of the inspector's work 

 for the inspection. 



Unscrupulous dealers must be taught that the sorting out 

 of bad diseased trees shipped here to be imposed on our tree 

 planters will hereafter be at their expense, not at the expense 

 of the county or State. 



Many eastern people are Coming here each year, purchas- 

 ing land, and planting the same to orchards, apple and pear. 

 Many of these people are without experience as to soils 

 adapted to growing fruit or the subsequent management of 

 an orchard after planting out. Land to them is land. They 

 come here with the "land hunger," to live the "simple life." 

 There is no doubt that some of these people have made serious 



