Report of State Board of Horticulture. 39 



The year 1905, owing to various causes, the apple, pear, 

 peach, and prune crops were short. The quality was g'ood, 

 and prices ruled high. For 1905 the third district produced: 



75,000 boxes of apples, valuer! at $125,000 



800,000 pounds cured prunes, valued at.. : 32,C00 



40,000 boxes of pears, valued at 80,000 



130,000 boxes of peaches, valued at 65,000 



500 crates of cherries valued at 500 



5,000 crates of grapes, valued at 5,000 



6,000 crates of strawberries, 15 cups, valued at 6,000 



15,000 crates of other small fruits, valued at 125,000 



Total for 1905 $313,500 



From careful data gathered from the whole district, the 

 following estimate of production and value, based on prices 

 being paid, will not be far from the output for 1906 : 



300,000 boxes of apples, value $ 375,000 



125,000 boxes of pears, value 187,500 



200,000 boxes of peaches, value 120,000 



6,000,000 cured prunes, value 180,000 



600 ci'ates of cherries, value 600 



4,000 crates of grapes, value 5,000 



4,000 crates of strawberries, value 4,0C0 



8,000 crates of other small fruits, value 8,000 



$ 880,100 



Total value of crop for 1905-06 $1,193,600 



will be noted that the value of the crop for the years 

 1904 were greater than the value of the crop of 1905- 

 y $196,400, The reason for the shortage is: First, 

 c^cres of new orchard not yet in bearing; second, short 

 cro^905 ; third, heavy rains during the period the berry 

 lost''.|;)eing gathered, and many thousands of crates were 



, . SAN JOSE SCALE. 



orcharc^ scale continues one of the serious pests of the 



continue annual ^^^^ from this pest is large and will 



\til every owner of an orchard realizes that 



