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daily record of each pen's production. Method in this. What 

 business ever paid without method as to detail? 



There is a tendency in the third district to plant exery 

 available acre to fruit that in my opinion is wrong. After 

 the Civil War the southern states became single-crop planters. 

 Every acre that would grow cotton was planted to the exclu- 

 sion of all other crops that they needed to make a cotton crop. 

 Their hay, bacon, flour, nearly every necessity they required 

 to make their cotton was bought from the north. They paid 

 heavy transportation charges for necessities that they could 

 easily raise on the farm, The southern planters lost money 

 until they w^ere worked out of their single-crop System. 



Will not the apple, pear, peach, and prune growers in the 

 end lose money if they persist in planting every acre to fruit 

 and neglect to grow hay and other necessities they have to 

 have to grow a fruit crop? Thousands of tons of hay the 

 past year was shipped into the third district, which the fruit 

 growers bought at $20 to $25 per ton and hauled to their 

 orchards to feed the stock necessary to cultivate and care for 

 their orchards. 



This System is wrong. It should be discouraged. Especially 

 when it is possible on any fruit farm to set aside a few acres 

 and grow alfalfa for hay that is so badly needed for the stock 

 that cultivate the orchards. A few years ago I went to one 

 feed firm in Grants Pass and got a statement of their Imports 

 for feed that they sold for a year to the f armers growing fruit 

 in the county, and found that for the year it aggregated 

 $102,000. This was only one feed firm out of several in that 

 city. This amount of imported feed one firm sold, when it 

 is possible to grow all the feed the county requires, and have 

 a surplus for export. Why should the fruit growers of Jack- 

 son, Josephine, and Douglas counties pay transportation 

 charges to the Southern Pacific for necessities that they can 

 so easily grow with any reasonable business System? 



The past year I have taken up this subject of raising on 

 the farm the necessary feed to maintain the stock that operates 

 the fruit farm at several horticultural meetings that I have 

 attended in the district. I believe, if it is possible, for the suc- 

 cess of the fruit grower that this System of one crop be dis- 

 couraged. 



CROP REPORTS FOR 1909-10. 



■ There are many factors that enter into the question of fruit 

 each year produced on a given acreage. Some years climatic 

 conditions are so favorable that a small effort brings large 

 production. 



