Repokt ob^ State Board of Horticulture. G7 



leading from Roseburg to Myrtle Point and Coos Bay, and a 

 rigid quarantine of infested fruit, that it would have been 

 possible to exclude the codling moth from this entire region 

 for years to come. It is probably too late now. Still there 

 are undoubtedly many isolated orchards in which it is not yet 

 found and which can be kept free from its ravages for years 

 by a little effort. The utmost care should be taken to prevent 

 its introduction into such orchards either in infested fruit or 

 in the packages in which such fruit has been packed. 



So far as the codling moth is concerned, the Yaquina Bay 

 region is essentially the same as the Coos Bay region. The 

 codling moth has as yet caused no serious injury there; and 

 the impression is quite generally held that conditions are such 

 that it will not thrive. That it is present, however, is shown 

 by the presence of wormy apples in the horticultural exhibit 

 at the county fair held at Toledo in the fall of 1901. There, 

 as elsewhere in the State, where the pest has not as yet 

 gained a firm foothold, it would seem far better for the fruit 

 growers themselves to establish a strict orchard inspection 

 and fruit quarantine in the attempt to check its spread rather 

 than to rely on the vain hope that ocean breezes will compass 

 its destruction. Other localities have been buoyed up with 

 the same hope only to have it shattered with the passing of 

 the years. In the Oregon Agriculturist and Rural Northwest, 

 January 15, 1899, occurs the following quotation from the 

 Pajoronian, of Watsonville, California: "The codling moth 

 has not been kept out, for any great length of time, of any of 

 the districts where apples are produced for general sale. 

 Every new apple district is 'without the codling moth terri- 

 tory.' We have talked that way about the Pajaro Valley; 

 but the codling moth has not been kept away because of fogs 

 or the fact that this district is within ten miles of the coast. 

 * * * It will not be kept down by fogs and ten-miles- 

 from-the-coast belts, alone. Active and intelligent work is 

 necessary to check the ravages of this great apple pest, the 

 m.ost serious foe of Pajaro Valley's greatest crop." 



The mere fact that the codling moth is a serious pest in 

 England, on the continent of Europe from Mediterranian 

 regions to the northern limits of apple growing in Siberia, in 



