Report of Judd Geer. 67 



OCTOBER MEETING, 1908 



I'd the Honorable State Board of Horticulture: 



The fruit crop of the Fifth District for the season of 1908 is 

 above the average in quantity and of excellent quality. There was 

 a better and more determined fight against the San Jose scale in 

 the localities where they have this pest than ever before, and there 

 has been a more thorough campaism against the codling moth than 

 in previous seasons, but there is yet room for a great deal of 

 improvement on that line. 



There are a few growers who practice thinning their apples while 

 the fruit is small in such a manner as to reduce the number of 

 apples to the tree and correspondingly increase the size of those 

 remaining. This is the up-to-date method that makes for the 

 production of large-sized fruit and is in vogue in many of the large 

 fruit-producing districts of the world. In this district T regret to 

 say that many growers refuse to adopt the method. Quantity seems 

 to be their aim in fruit raising. 



In Umatilla County prunes were a good crop and were sold at 

 fancy prices. They were practically all shipped to the Eastern 

 markets fresh. In TJnion County the crop was large and most of the 

 fruit will be dried. 



The cherry crop of the district was large in all localities. Cove 

 alone shipped eighteen carloads. 



There was about 50 per cent of a peach crop and prices were high 

 through the whole season. 



Pear prices were good, but the yield was not quite so heavy as 

 last year. 



Judd Geer, 

 Commissioner for Fifth District. 



