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distribution of our fruits over wider areas, and additional 

 trans-Pacific steamships will carry our more common grades 

 at a lower tariff to unlimited markets in the Orient, while 

 our fancy products will seek the better filled purses of 

 Europe. , 



To instruct and popularize best known methods is the duty 

 of this Board, for, as adverse conditions multiply, we become 

 more and more dependent on the scientific investigations of 

 the Experiment Station. 



Portland, Oregon, April 9, 1906. 

 Commissioners, Oregon State Board of Horticulture: 



The relation which I have borne to the State Board of Hor- 

 ticulture for the past six years, that of Commissioner at 

 Large and Chairman of the Board, ceases to-day, and I am 

 gratified to state that the horticultural interests of Oregon 

 were never in a more promising condition than at present. 

 It is, indeed, true that the number of orchard diseases and 

 pests have not materially decreased, but we have now well- 

 known specific treatments that regulate and control them. 



My recommendation to our Legislative Assembly, embodied 

 in the eighth biennial report of this Board, that a law be en- 

 acted providing for the appointment of county fruit inspect- 

 ors, met with approval and such legislation was enacted. 



The beneficial results which have followed the appointm.ent 

 of the county fruit inspectors are too well known to require 

 further mention here. Our State Horticultural Society has 

 blossomed into new life and large auxilliary societies have 

 been organized in different portions of the State. 



In the Willamette Valley a campaign of reclamation of ol:I 

 orchards is being vigorously waged, and an increased plant- 

 ing of young trees over previous years is reported. In all 

 the principal fruit growing sections of the State a vast area 

 of young orchards will come into bearing within the next 

 three or four years. In Hood River alone there are about 

 three thousand acres of such orchard, all of which are Yellow 

 Newtowns and Spitzenbergs, estimated to produce three years 

 later four hundred thousand boxes of fancy fruit. 



