42 Report of State Board of Horticulture. 



Have mailed to the fruit growers 600 volumes of the eighth 

 biennial report of this board. 



APPLE ANTHRACNOSE. 



This disease of the apple tree yields so readily to spraying 

 with bordeaux, just after the apples are gathered in the fall, 

 that the apple growers cease to fear it as they did four and 

 five years ago. 



This coming fall and winter it is my purpose, as well as 

 the county inspectors, to be active in the enforcement of the 

 law relating to injurious insect pests. Public sentiment is 

 educated at the present on the line of law enforcement, and 

 should it be necessary for me or the inspectors to resort to 

 enforcement of the law through the courts, I feel sure the 

 majority of the fruit growers will sustain us. 



EISMAN BROTHERS. 



This orchard is located four and one-half miles west of 

 Grants Pass, on the north bank of Rogue River. Thirty-five 

 acres of this orchard was planted about fifteen years ago, and 

 owing to anthracnose and scale, of which it became infested, 

 was practically given up and abandoned until about six years 

 ago, when Eisman Bros, took hold of it with determination 

 to clean it up and bestow care intelligently on modern lines. 

 The orchard up to six years ago had been unproductive. 

 Eisman Bros, bought a first-class power spraying rig, pruned 

 and sprayed the orchard thoroughly, and in 1904 sold $12,000 

 worth of apples from this orchard. The year 1905 the crop 

 in this orchard was short, yet they produced about $2,000 

 worth of apples. To show the production of this orchard 

 this year, 1906, I herewith submit a written report which I 

 requested of Eisman Brothers. 



Grants Pass, Oregon, Octoter 27, 1906. 

 A. H. Carson, 



Horticultural Commissioner, Third District: 

 Inclosed please find four photographic views taken in our orchard 

 this year. 



Our apple crop this year will amount to 14,000 boxes; 5,000 boxes 

 Yellow Newtown, 4,000 boxes E. Spitzenberg, 2,000 boxes Ben Davis, 



