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counted for on other grounds? During the past six years it 

 has been my privilege to visit several of these favored sec- 

 tions and to note the conditions, both by observation and 

 by conversation with resident fruit growers. Six or seven 

 years ago Hood River, probably the most famous apple grow- 

 ing region in the State, was said to be practically free from 

 this pest. Its presence in small numbers was admitted, but 

 little damage had been done and little fear was felt for the 

 future. The cold evening breezes that come down from the 

 mountains were said to prevent the moths from depositing 

 their eggs. To-day the mist from the spray pumps as it 

 floats over the orchards of that region demonstrates' alike 

 the progressive nature of the fruit growers and the error of 

 their former belief. 



There are still scattered here and there throughout the 

 eastern part of our State, communities that indulge in this 

 same hope of immunity from the codling moth and for the 

 same reason. It is seriously to be doubted whether their ex- 

 pectations have a firmer foundation of facts than existed at 

 Hood River. 



West of the Coast Range of mountains there are other 

 communities which also indulge in this same hope of im- 

 munity, but for other reasons. There it is not the cold breezes 

 which come down from the mountains — the breezes do not 

 come that way — but the moisture, the temperature, the "salt" 

 or some other unknown feature of the ocean winds which 

 kiss the orchards of those regions, that is supposed to carry 

 death and destruction to the codling moth and joy to the 

 hearts of the apple growers. 



During the last few days of August and the first of Septem- 

 ber, 1899, I took a hurried trip through portions of Coos 

 County, Oregon, for the special purpose of demonstrating, to 

 my own satisfaction, the presence or absence of the codling 

 moth, and in case of its absence to investigate so far as the 

 time at my command permitted, the conditions under which 

 this immunity existed. 



As a result of this trip I became convinced that at that time 

 (1900) the codling moth was not present, to any great ex- 

 tent at least, in the Coos Bay region. I also became con- 

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