Report of State Board of Horticulture. 



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tender plants. The spring and blooming period of all fruit 

 trees were three to four weeks earlier than normal years. 

 This fact caused some solicitude among the growers, but 

 thus far this solicitude has proven groundless. 



The apple anthracnose continues to yield to the bordeaux 

 remedy, if applied immediately after the fruit is gathered in 

 the fall. Last year this fungus was very bad in the H. B. 

 Miller orchard, two miles west of Grants Pass. This orchard 

 was sprayed with bordeaux early last fall, and at the present 

 date there is no indication of any new growth of the fungus. 



There can be no question but what bordeaux, if sprayed 

 on the apple tree early in the fall, is a specific for the apple 

 tree anthracnose. 



In Jackson County the apple and pear industry is bound 

 to expand and grow largely during the next few years, as a 

 railroad is now being built from Medford up Rogue River to 

 the Crater Lake Reserve, to tap and haul out the four billion 

 feet of sugar and yellow pine known to be in that timber belt, 

 and as there are thousands of acres of choice apple and pear 

 lands lying adjacent to this railroad, the question of transpor- 

 tation will not deter apple growers any longer from invading 

 and planting this rich territory. Medford is and always will 

 be the center of the great apple and pear section of the 

 Rogue River Valley. 



1905 FRUIT ESTIMATE. 



Apples, number boxes 



Prunes, number pounds 



Pears, nmiiber boxes 



Pf-aches, number boxes 



Cherries, number crates 



(irapf'^. number orates 



Strawberries, number crates (15 pints to crate) 

 .Small fruits, number crates 



Amount. 



75,000 



800,000 



40,000 



1^0,000 



.'(K) 



5,0(10 



fi.OOO 



15,000 



Value. 



$112,500 00 



Sl^OOO oo 



so,ooo no 



(;5,')(io CO 



."lOO 00 



5,0(10 00 



0,000 00 



12,500 00 



The fruit crop of the third district was small this year. 

 For what we did have prices ruled high. Fancy packed pears 

 sold in the New York market at prices that only an insurance 

 officer or a bank president could indulge. I have data that a 

 number of cars sold for in New York which I will give in my 

 semi-annual report. 



