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kill the twigs. In August I found pear blight in two pear orchards in 

 Douglas County. In a number of orchards I visited in this county 

 the two were the only ones where I found the disease. I taught the 

 owners how to identify the disease, and the remedy, and they at 

 once began active work to control it. 



In cutting out limbs infected with pear bliglit, it is necessary to 

 cut well l:)elow the part that shows infection, and in all cases, after 

 cutting off a limb, the knife should be sterilized to kill any germs 

 that might adhere to it, as cuttins: into healthy wood would cause 

 infection. Professor O'Gara, an expert on pear blight, says: "You 

 cannot prick the point of a needle into germ-infested pear blight 

 and then prick the same into healthy wood without inoculating it 

 with the germs." 



FIELD WORK. 



The past two years I have visited the greater part of the district 

 and attended many fruit growers' meetings. I have found the 

 growers in most eases active and modem in their methods of care 

 of their orchards. In Jackson County the Rogue River Horticultural 

 Society is an active organization. Nearly every fruit grower in 

 Jackson County is a member of this society and shows interest in 

 all monthly meetings held by the society by always being present. 



Douglas County's society is equally as active as is Jackson's. 



During the two years I have received a great many letters from 

 Eastern people asking for specific information on every phase of 

 fruit growing in this district. I always answer these letters cheer- 

 fully. A great many letters come to me from the growers in the 

 district. All are answ^ered. 



I have delivered in the district all the biennial reports of this 

 Board for 1907 that I was allotted, but had many applications for 

 them that could not be supplied. The State should furnish this 

 Board with not less than 10,000 copi(JS of the biennial reports, so 

 that each fruit grower of the State could have a copy. 



INSPECTION WORK. 



The county fruit inspectors in my district have been active and 

 have covered much of their respective counties. In Jackson County 

 Inspector Taylor has been active in teaching the fruit growers how 

 to treat the pear blight, and the sentiment he has worked up among 

 them in regard to the danger that this disease, if not controlled by 

 cutting out, will in a short time destroy their orchards, has in a 

 great measure abated the disease. In Douglas County, Inspector 

 Riddle has done much good work for that county. He has caused 

 many orchards to be sprayed for San Jose scale that were never 

 sprayed before, and in a great many cases where old orchards would 

 not pay to spray he has caused them to be cut down and burned. 



