80 Report of State Board of Horticulture. 



It will be seen that the percentage of increase for the valley für the 

 decade was 157 per cent, as compared with an increase of 132 per eent 

 for the State as a whole. The Oregon Agricultural College deserves 

 much credit for the part it has done in bringing about better care of 

 the orchards. 



SMALL FRUITS. 



Complete statistics from the 1910 census as to small fruits are not 

 yet available. The following was the produetion in quarts of the 

 prineipal small fruits in the crop years of 1899 and 1909: 



Quarts, 1899 Quarts, 1909 



Strawberries 3,837,820 5,322,040 



Gooseberries 326,780 307,395 



Raspberries and loganberries 783,060 2,644,948 



Currants 238,420 117,354 



Blackberries and dewberries 1,310,920 915,744 



All small fruits 6,497,000 9,307,481 



The value of the crop of small fruits for 188 was $386,632. The 

 figures for 1909 are not available, but as prices were materially higher 

 in 1909 than in 1899 the value of the crop of 1909 probably exceeded 

 $800,000. 



The crop of grapes decreased from 5,389,000 pounds valued at 

 $162,543 in 1899 to 3,207,000 pounds valued at $99,000 in 1909. The 

 decrease in this industry has been due to the low average of prices for 

 grapes which have prevailed in Oregon during the greater part of 

 the decade. 



