170 Appendix. 



It shall hereafter be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, 

 o\vning or operating any nursery, fruit orchard of any kind, hop yard, 

 flower garden, or ornamental trees, to throw any cuttings or prunings, 

 from any fruit trees, nursery stock, ornamental trees or hop vines, into 

 any public road, highway, lane, field, or other enclosure, or into any 

 water course of any kind; but shall destroy such cuttings or pruningi 

 by fire, within thirty days from the time such cuttings or pruning^ 

 are made. 



Section 2. It shall hereafter be the duty of any person, firm, or cor- 

 poration owning or operating any such nursery, fruit orchard, hop yard, 

 flower garden, or ornamental trees, and knowing such to be infested 

 with any kind of insects, pests, or disease, to immediately spray or 

 destroy the same in such manner as the fruit commissioner of his 

 district may direct. 



Section 5. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation, 

 to import or sell any infested or diseased fruit of any kind in the Stale 

 of Oregon. 



There is another section requiring merchants selling spray material 

 to guarantee its quality and per cent of purity. Another prohibiting 

 any person or firm from packing to ship any diseased plants, fruits, or 

 vegetables. Then section 7 says: 



Any person, firm, or corporation violating any of the provisions of 

 this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction 

 thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars 

 nor more than one hundred. 



Possibly this is enough of the law. It will be seen by these extracts 

 that the inspector is working under the general supervision of the dis- 

 trict commissioner. That it is his duty to inspect the orchards, packing 

 houses and storerooms, to guard the markets, etc., or, in other words, 

 to enforce the law as it now stands or may in the future be enacted. 

 This is the legal side of the subject, that any one may learn if he wants 

 to, or may learn by actual experience if he is too negligent or stubborn 

 to try. 



But there are other duties of the inspector, to which I wish to refer 

 that are not written in the law. In my experience as inspector I find 

 many people who do not know what to do in order to properly clean up 

 and care for their orchards. In some communities where fruit growing 

 is not carried on except for family use I find there is no one who knows 

 anything about spraying or caring for their trees. This does not mean 

 that these communities are not intelligent. But it does mean that in 

 the past this has been out of their line of business. 



In years past fruits of all kinds have grown to perfection with but 

 little care and attention. This has created a habit of carelessness and 

 neglect, the result of which is manifest, especially through the Willam- 

 ette Valley. 



But of late years we have scale, aphis, codling moth, caterpillars and 

 fungus diseases too numerous to mention. 



These changed conditions have made it necessary to employ different 

 methods of action. These farmers who in the past have had fruit 



