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trict: Marion, Polk, Benton, Linn, and Lane counties. Third district: 

 Douglas, Jackson, Josephine, Coos, Curry, and Lake counties. Fourth 

 district: Morrow, Wasco, Gilliam, Crook, and Sherman counties. Fifth 

 district: Baker, Wallowa, Malheur, Harney, and Grant counties. 



The biennial reports of this Board have been well received at home 

 and abroad, and are now an acknowledged authority in the horticultural 

 literature of the State. These reports were awarded at the Pan-Ameri- 

 can Exposition, Buffalo, New York, a gold medal; at the Trans-Missis- 

 sippi Exposition, Omaha, in 1898, a gold medal; at the Interstate and 

 West India Exposition at Charleston, South Carolina, 1902, a gold 

 medal; at the International Exposition, held at Osaka, Japan, in 1903, 

 a gold medal. Are now used as text-books at the Agricultural Experi-. 

 ment Station at Sapporo Nokkaido, Japan, and in the horticultural 

 studies at the Agricultural College, Stuttgart, Germany. 



The present officers and members of the Board are: W. K. Newell, 

 president; James H. Reed, treasurer; Geo. H. Lamberson, secretary, 

 Portland. W. K. Newell, Gaston, Commissioner for the State at large; 

 James H. Reed, Milwaukie, Commissioner for the first district; Chas. A. 

 Park, Salem, Commissioner for the second district; A. H. Carson, 

 Grants Pass, Commissioner for the third district; R. H. Weber, The 

 Dalles, Commissioner for the fourth district; Judd Geer, Cove, Com- 

 missioner for the fifth district. 



The reports and work of the State Board of Horticulture unquestion- 

 ably have been of gi"eat value to the fruit interests of the State, notably 

 as an educator in a knowledge of insect and fungous pests, spraying 

 material and equipments, and the best practical methods of their uses 

 in cleaning infested orchards, and keeping clean. Clean orchards and 

 clean fruit is now the rule in all successful orcharding. This has 

 been a slow educational process. It is difficult now to realize the ignor- 

 ance and consequent indifference of orchardists on this subject, partic- 

 ularly the former small orchardist. 



The difficulties the Board had to contend against would make a 

 curious and interesting chapter in the study of human nature. Verily 

 in the beginning, to put it mildly, this was a most uninviting work. 

 Antagonism to and defiance of orchard inspection was almost the rule. 

 To tell a man that his orchard was lousy with the bark-louse, infested 

 v.^ith San Jose scale, green and woolly aphis, or the borer; diseased 

 with fungus growth, and that the law required him to spray, was often 

 an unpleasant duty; sometimes leading to personal difficulty, and, as 

 sometimes happened, a threat to bring out the old shot-gun to defend 

 his home and personal liberty, to do as he pleased with his own. 



In this defiant spirit the courts have been appealed to. Thus far the 

 Board has been sustained and the law adjudged constitutional. Or- 

 chardists have learned the wisdom of the law; the farmer-orchardist 

 has been educated to consider the law more tolerantly, and to meet the 

 inspector as a friend and co-worker. In these trying times refei'red to, 

 David M. Dunne facilitated the work of the Board by originating, 



