78 Report of State Board of Horticulture. 



Of those states which in 1909 each produced more than 100,000 

 busheis of cherries, Oregon made the highest percentage of increase 

 for the decade. 



Of the ten states which each produced more than 100,000 busheis 

 of plums and prunes in 1909, Oregon made the highest percentage of 

 increase for the decade. 



Of the ten states which each produced more than 100,000 busheis of 

 pears in 1909, Oregon ranked third in percentage of increase. 



Of the 29 states which each produced more than 1,000,000 busheis of 

 apples in 1909, Oregon ranked sixth in percentage of increase, the 

 states which ranked higher in their order beginning with the highest, 

 being Colorado, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Washington and Nebraska. 



In rank among the states of the Union as to number of farms, 

 Oregon had 33rd place in 1900, but feil to 34th place in 1910. 



In production of plums and prunes it had second place in 1899 

 and held the same place in 1909. 



In production of apples it advanced from 25th place in 1899 to 22nd 

 place in 1909. 



In production of pears it advanced from 12th place in 1899 to 6th 

 place in 1909. 



In production of cherries it advanced from 12th place in 1899 to 

 lOth place in 1909. 



In the census of 1900 all trees were counted together whether of 

 bearing age or not. In 1910 the trees of bearing age and those not 

 of bearing age were reported separately. The figures now available 

 for plum and prune and cherry trees in 1910 are the whole number 

 and not the number of the bearing and of the non-bearing trees 

 separately. The published data available for the 1900 census gives 

 the numbers in most cases in round thousands. The numbers for 

 1900 and 1910 follow: 



Whole number Number Whole 



1900 No. bearing not bearing number 



1910 1910 1910 



Apple 2,825,898 2,029,913 2,240,636 4,270,549 



Plum and prune .... 2,517,523 1,764,896 427,609 2,192,505 



Pear 374,165 273,542 795,699 1,069,241 



Cherry . 237,155 223,456 313,770 537,226 



Peach 281,716 273,000 508,000 781,000 



Totais 6,236,457 4,564,969 4,285,893 8,850,862 



We find that the whole number of bearing trees in Oregon of the 

 tree fruits mentioned in the foregoing table in 1910 was 1,771,486 less 

 than the whole number of trees of all ages in 1900. There were 

 4,285,893 trees in 1900 that had not yet reached bearing age. This 

 indicates an annual yearly planting of more than 600,000 trees in 

 Oregon, and that at least 1,800,000 trees planted after 1900 should 

 have come into bearing in 1910 if they survived until that time. After 

 allowing that one-third of this number died after they were planted 

 from natural causes or through the will of the owner, the conclusion 

 is inevitable that at least 2,870,000 of the fruit trees of Oregon which 

 were in existence in 1900 were not in existence in 1910. A comparison 

 of these figures with those of adjoining states shows that this great 

 mortality was not the result of natural causes, and that the great 

 fatality was the result of the activities of the State Board of Horticul- 

 ture in bringing about the abatement of neglected, pest-ridden trees 



