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attention and a conservative estimate places the number of 

 trees that will be planted in the fourth district at 150,000, 

 while the peach orchards will be augmented by at least 

 50,000 trees, besides large numbers of plums, prunes, apri- 

 cots, nectarines, nut trees, and small fruits of all kinds will 

 be planted. Nut trees, perhaps, will show the largest per 

 cent of gain, as single individuals will plant as much as 

 twenty acres. Another year, no doubt, it will be possible to 

 record still greater activity in the fruit industry, as many 

 Eastern people are coming to our shores, attracted by the 

 wonderful productiveness of our soil, and equableness of 

 climate. 



Bugs, though they have lost some of their original terror, 

 still continue to be the one great nightmare that disturbs the 

 fruit grower's repose. In this department human intellect 

 and science are waging wonderful battle against nature, and 

 who shall say that in time skillful man will not evolve some 

 potion which, hjT)odermically applied or supplied in the shape 

 of fertilizer, will successfully destroy all injurious insect and 

 fungi, and relegate the spray pump to tne same relative posi- 

 tion now occupied by the once indispensable stage coach? 



For the time being, however, we must be content with the 

 use of the spray pump and the remedies variously recom- 

 mended for the extermination of the numerous orchard pests 

 so well known to the fruit grower. 



With the expansion of the fruit industry, a strong deter- 

 mination to stamp out all effects of insect and disease seems 

 to have taken possession of the orchardist, resulting in the 

 purchase of new high pressure pumps with which to wage 

 successful battle. 



Several reports have reached me about the inefficacy of 

 some of the remedies recommended by this Board ; upon in- 

 vestigation, however, it was found that slack methods had 

 been employed in the preparation and application of the 

 remedies, or that the ingredients had been highly adulterated. 



Nothing so far discovered equals the effectiveness of sul- 

 phur, salt and lime for combating and destroying San Jose 

 scale. If carefully prepared, whether over a fire or by the 

 use of caustic soda, and properly and thoroughly applied, the 

 results have been beneficial and highly satisfactory. Nothing 



