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have been able to gather I am conservative in saying that Jackson 

 County the past winter has planted out 7,000 acres in new apple 

 and pear orchards. As a basis for that data I can say that the 

 Settlemeier Nursery Company has delivered the past winter 200,000 

 trees to Rogue Eiver tree planters; the J. S. Barnett Nursery 

 Company, of Central Point, has delivered 100,000 trees; two car- 

 loads came from Salt Lake nurseries — about 50,000 trees ; approxi- 

 mately there have been delivered in the Rogue River Valley 50,000 

 trees from the Brownell Nurserv Company, of Albany, and the 

 E. H. Weber Nurseries, of The Dalles, Oregon, making a total of 

 about 400,000 trees that were planted in the Rogue River Valley 

 the past winter. Josephine County, in the Rogue River Valley, 

 planted about 25,000 of these trees, and, allowing 25,000 trees for 

 re-planting of orchards, would leave 350,000 trees that were 

 planted to new orchards in Jackson County. Allowing 50 trees 

 to the acre, this would add 7,000 acres of new orchards to Jackson's 

 old acreage. I estimate that 65 per cent of Jackson County's new 

 orchard acreage was planted in the vicinity of or adjacent to Med- 

 ford. It will be but a few years until Medford will be the largest 

 shipping point for apples and pears in the Pacific Northwest, if 

 not on the Pacific Coast. Ashland is, and will no doubt be, the 

 largest shipping point for peaches, as she already has a large 

 acreage in peaches, and is steadily increasing that acreage yearly. 



SPEAYING AND PRUNING. 



Spraying and pruning the past winter has ibeen done with more 

 system and energy than any former year. Many old, worn-out, 

 pest-infested, diseased orchards that could not be renovated, have 

 been taken out. 



Public sentiment, or perhaps 1 should say self-interest, with 

 greater knowledge of how to fight pests, and make the orchard pay, 

 together with the decision in the Sellwood case at Oresfon Citv last 

 November, has stimulated through active county fruit inspectors 

 the negligent orchard owners to activity, with the result that 

 spraying and pruning has been greater and more thorough than 

 ever before. 



A. H. Carson, 

 Commissioner for Third District. 



