REPORT OF STATE BOARD OF HORTICULTURE. 25 



and expense For detailed information as to tlie field work 

 accomplished by these gentlemen you are respectfully referred 

 to their accompaning reports, and from which I beg leave 

 to note a brief summary. 



The first district comprises the counties of Multnomah, 

 Clackamas, Washington, Yamhill, Columbia, Clatsop and Til- 

 lamook. W. K. Newell, Commissioner. Mr, Newell, since his 

 last report, has visited five hundred and twenty-five orchards 

 comprising seven thousand three hundred and ninety-four 

 acres. The value of the product of these orchards, including 

 canned fruits, amounted, in the year 1900, to $439,940. The 

 items forming this aggregate will be found in Commissioner 

 Newell 's report. 



The second district comprises Marion, Lane, Polk, Linn, 

 Benton and Lincoln counties. L. T. Reynolds, Commissioner. 

 Mr. Reynolds has visited five hundred and twenty-six orchards 

 and answered eight hundred and fifty letters. This district 

 has about twenty thousand acres in fruit culture, largely in 

 prunes. Value of crop for 1900, not including products of 

 canneries, which was large, amounted to $134,642.50. Mr. 

 Reynolds reports that growers have grown in strength and 

 purpose during the year. 



The third district embraces .Jackson, Josephine, Douglas, 

 Klamath, Coos and Curry counties. A. H. Carson, Com- 

 missioner. Since last report Mr. Carson has answered one 

 hundred letters, mailed one hundred and twenty copies of 

 fifth biennial report, and two hundred notices of disinfection, 

 with copy of house bill No. 238, to growers whose orchards 

 were infested with scale. He has visited, during this period, 

 two hundred and six orchards. Value of fruit products of 

 Jackson, Josephine and Douglas counties : 



Exported S 444,950 



.Sold in district 50,000 



Total S 494,950 



Orchards constantly improving. 



The fourth district embraces Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam, 

 Morrow, Wheeler and Crook counties. Emile Schanno, 

 Commissioner. Data at hand insufficient to form estimate of 

 value of crop, which was large. Spraying becoming general 

 in principal fruit sections. 



The fifth district comprises the counties of Union, Umatilla, 

 Grant, Baker, Wallowa and Malheur, nearly half the area of 



