60 Report of State Board of Horticulture. 



REPORTS OF R. H. WEBER, 



Commissioner for Fourth District 



APRIL MEETING, 1907 



To the Hon07-able State Board of Horticulture: 



The Fourth Horticultural District has to record the most pros- 

 perous season during the year 1906 that it has ever experienced. 

 Crops were good and prices prevailing were high on all kinds of 

 horticultural products. This condition has brought in its wake the 

 greatest activity ever known in horticultural circles. Plantings of 

 trees this spring surpass all previous records, and thousands of acres 

 will be added to the already large acreage of orchards in the Fourth 

 District. 



Wasco County, of course, furnishes most of the ground for these 

 increased plantings, which consist of apples, cherries, peaches, pears, 

 apricots, almonds, plums, prunes and grapes. Hood River, as usual, 

 takes the lead in expansion and will plant at least 100,000 trees, 

 most of which are apples of the leading commercial sorts, consist- 

 ing of Newtown, Spitzenburgh, Arkansas Black, Winesap, Ortley 

 and several other varieties of less prominence. It is noticeable that 

 Newtowns are gaining in favor to an appreciable extent, and Arkan- 

 sas Blacks are in a measure taking the place so conspicuously occupied 

 by the Spitzenburgs. Color, keeping and shipping qualities are respon- 

 sible for this change. Mosier is planting its usual quota of apples, 

 cherries and peaches, while The Dalles, at last waking up to its 

 wonderful possibilities, is trying to vie with itself in an effort to 

 cutdo any of its former efforts. Fully 25,000 cherries, 15,000 

 peaches, 5,000 apricots, with numerous trees of otTier kinds, will 

 add to its rapidly increasing orchard acreage. 



Favorable weather of the past winter and early spring promise 

 abundant yield for the coming season, and point to another pros- 

 perous year for the fruit grower of Oregon. 



E. H. Weber, 

 Commissioner for Fourth District. 



APRIL MEETING, 1908 



To the Honorable State Board of Horticulture: 



Development in fruit growing in the Fourtli Horticultural Dis- 

 trict, comprising Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam, Morrow. Wheeler and 

 Crook Counties, is more extensive than in any previous year. Truly 

 marvelous is the increase in orchard acreage, with Wasco County 



