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perience is that Spitzenbergs should be well protected from the wind to 

 get the best results. 



The Ben Davis have borne each year since the fourth year, and only 

 one year has their yield been a light one. The location of the orchard 

 is west of Phelps' Creek on a northeast slope and well drained naturally. 

 The sub-soil is clay and underlaid with volcanic rock which slacks 

 as soon as exposed to the air. I spray once a year with lime and 

 sulphur and bordeaux for protection from scale and fungus, and five 

 times each year for codling moth, the first spray as soon as the bloom 

 has nearly all fallen ; the second ten days later, and the other three 

 thirty days apart, using the arsenate of lead spray, which has proven 

 the best spray for protection against the codling moth of any ever used 

 in this valley. Since using it have only about one per cent of wormy 

 fruit. 



FRUIT GROWING AT SUMMER LAKE AND PAISLEY, 



OREGON. 



Written for this report by A. A. Witham, M. D., Paisley, Oregon. 



Along the western shore of Summer Lake, Oregon, there are several 

 orchards of thriving trees; apples, pears, plums, prunes, peaches, cher- 

 ries, producing, in quantities not to be excelled by the same number of 

 trees in any portion of the State, in quality, the very best fruit. Not 

 a pest of any kind has as yet attacked either trees or fruit. Many 

 new orchards are being planted; in fact, almost every farmer is either 

 setting a new orchard or increasing the acreage of an old one, for it 

 has been demonstrated by practical tests that this is one of the best 

 fruit-producing sections in the State of Oregon. 



Apples of the following varieties have been successfully produced for 

 the past ten or fifteen years: Jonathan, Arkansas Black, Ben Davis, 

 Spitzenberg, Baldwin, Rhode Island Greening, Bellflower, Rambo, 

 Wealthy, Walbridge; in short, all Russian stocks or Russian grafts do 

 excellently well. In summer and fall varieties, the Red Astrachan, 

 Yellow Transparent, Red June are among the most favored. 



All pears seem to do well, notably the Bartlett, Clapp's Favorite, 

 Flemish Beauty. Cherries, such as the Lambei't, Baldwin, Royal Ann, 

 Bing, grow to perfection. The peaches of this region are noted for 

 their excellent flavor. The Early Alexander, Yellow Crawford, Large 

 Early York, Champion, Foster, and Triumph have demonstrated their 

 fit»- ss for this climate. All varieties of plums and prunes do well, for 

 \ the natural habitat of the plum family. The wild plum is in- 

 "« and grows in rich profusion all along the lake shore, and up 

 lyons and ravines leading to the rimrocks surrounding the lake. 



