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4 Report of State Board of Horticulture. 



pests and fungus diseases published in the bulletins of this 

 Board. 



The building of new railroad lines in Jackson and Jose- 

 phine .counties this year will open up many thousands of 

 acres of horticultural lands in both counties. The railroad 

 from Medford up Butte Creek Valley to Crater Lake makes 

 many thousands of acres of choice apple and pear lands 

 available for planting in that rich section. Some ten miles 

 of this road is already completed. 



The Grants Pass & Coast Railway, on which work will 

 begin May 1, will open up the rich apple lands in the south 

 part of Josephine County. In the Illinois and Succer Creek 

 valleys there are thousands of acres of choice fruit lands 

 that will be developed on completing this railway. 



There is no doubt a class will say, the question of over- 

 production will cause a halt in the extensive apple and pear 

 planting that has been done in the Rogue River Valley the 

 past two or three years. This question of over-production 

 has always been a hobby since the first apple was picked in 

 the Garden of Eden, and given by Eve to Adam. Adam, 

 perhaps, thought the business had been over-done, and many 

 of his descendants yet stick to that idea. 



Grants Pass, Oregon, October 1, 1906. 



To the Honorable President and Members of the State Board 

 of Horticulture : 



I respectfully submit for your consideration my biennial 

 report for the biennial year ending December 31, 1906, as 

 Commissioner of the third district of Oregon, embracing the 

 counties of Coos, Curry, Douglas, Josephine, Jackson, 

 Klamath, and Lake — that subdivision of our great State 

 known as Southern Oregon. 



The third district has an area of 26,000 square miles, and 

 is drained by the Coos, Umpqua, Rogue, and Klamath rivers, 

 with many large streams that are tributaries to these rivers. 



Along all of these rivers and tributaries are many thou- 

 sands of acres of rich alluvial soils that are proving very val- 



