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Jackson County, however, is now and likely to remain tha 

 leading fruit county of Oregon. It is first in apples, first in 

 peaches, first in pears, and I believe first in grapes. Its 

 orchards are large, well kept, and its growers are up-to-date 

 in all that relates to their industry. Immense planting of 

 young trees has been going on for several years past, and in 

 a few years the output of apples and pears from Jackson 

 County will exceed any estimate we dare make. 



Josephine County in a less degree produces most excellent 

 fruit. The grapes shipped to Portland market last season by 

 Commissioner Carson were not excelled by same varieties 

 California gro\\Ti. , 



Douglas County has almost limitless possibilities for fruit 

 growing and her prune orchards are among the best in the 

 State. 



East of the Cascades, Union, Umatilla, and Wasco counties 

 must be classed among the great fruit growing counties of 

 the State. Oregon has so many counties admirably adapted 

 to fruit growing that it is unnecessary to specialize farther. 



It is a matter of congratulation that this Board, after this 

 date, will be so happily constituted for effective work. Your 

 chairman is a man of ability, a practical horticulturist, and 

 of many years service as a member of this Board. 



Our new commissioner of the first district, the most im- 

 portant of any in the State, demonstrated, while county in- 

 spector of Clackamas and Multnomah counties, that he was 

 fully competent to enforce the statutes made for the protec- 

 tion of our fruit growers. 



Gentlemen, I approach the conclusion of this brief report 

 with no little reluctance. For six years I have shared the 

 councils of three members of the Board, Commissioners 

 Carson, Newell, and Geer, and for a briefer period Commis- 

 sioners Weber and Park. During all this time not the least 

 dissention has arisen, but all the deliberations of the Board 

 were characterized by harmony and courtesy to its chairman, 

 for which he tenders his appreciation. 



It is the earnest desire of your retiring president that 

 your future councils may be characterized by like unanimity 

 and your labors of still greater value to our fruit growers 

 and the State. 



