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The jjlienomenal prices received this year for the fancy fruit will 

 prove the most effective of advertising, afid will spread our fame 

 still more widely over the land and will increase the demand. The 

 Pacific Coast is the natural fruit garden of the country, and we have 

 advantages of soil and climate unsurpassed by any other section, and 

 it only remains for us to maintain our present high standard of 

 product to step into the front rank and in a short time make fruit 

 groAving the greatest source of wealth in the State. 



COUNTY FRUIT INSPECTORS. 



The careful and efficient work of our county fruit inspectors has 

 been a great source of satisfaction. By a personal demonstration 

 where needed they have shown people how to spray, and then protected 

 them by preventing the sale of infected fruit. As an example I call 

 attention to what has been accomplished in the Freewater-Milton 

 district. Two years ago the fruit there was so scaly and wormy as 

 to be almost unmarketable, but a united, determined effort among 

 the growers, led by Inspector Evans, has this year produced over 

 one hundred thousand dollars' worth of clean, sound apples, pears, 

 prunes and peaches. The growers know now that they can control 

 pests, and the industry in that locality is saved. Equally good results 

 have been accomplished in other counties. The work of the inspectors 

 should be enlarged as the industry sfrows. Our larger counties should 

 now put their men on salaries and let them devote all their time to 

 the work. Let them be instructors and advisers, traveling to every 

 farm and talking and working personally with every. man. That is 

 the kind of work that brings results. T ho]>e you will, each of you, 

 urge this upon your growers and your county courts. 



Another thing that should be made part of the regular duty of 

 the county inspector is the gathering of statistics, particularly of 

 the vield of fruit. They should each be provided with the proper 

 blanks and be instructed to gather the figures of yields and values 

 of each crop as it is ready to market. 



SPRAYING AND SPRAYS. 



From some localities reports have come of poor results from 

 spray iug this year. The use of the ready- prepared lime and sulphur 

 sprav was almost universal last winter, and the investigations of 

 Professor A. B. Cordley and others lead to the conclusion that there 

 w;is a irreat variation in the strength of the sprays put upon the 

 market, and that in many cases it was diluted too much. It is 

 difficult to make th's spray always of the same strength; hence the 

 Xiasrara Spray people propose this year to test each vat separately 

 and laliel the barrel with the actual strenirth of that lot. and state 

 how much it should be diluted. Growers should be careful to demand 

 a guarantee of actual strength before purchasing. 



Again T would urge the importance of beginning the winter 



