28 REPORT OF STATE BOARD OF HORTICULTURE. 



Sixth — Gilliam, Morrow, Umatilla, Grant, and Harney. 

 Seventh — Union, Wallowa, Raker, and Malheur. 



ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW. 



The Horticultural Board has endeavored to secure compli- 

 ance with the law without resort to drastic measures, and has 

 succeeded so far as spraying and disinfecting of trees are con- 

 cerned. More or less infested fruit still finds its way to our 

 markets, but the quantity is small compared with former 

 years. 



It has been held that the commissioners have no authority 

 to pay deputy inspectors, and it is utterly impossible for any 

 one man to inspect all the fruit sent out of his district. The 

 commission merchants, in many instances, have reported to 

 our secretary violations of our quarantine laws. 



It is not just to the grower who raises sound fruit to de- 

 moralize the markets by flooding them with trash that cannot 

 pass inspection. We have endeavored to create a public sen- 

 timent in favor of the enforcement of wholesome regulations 

 for the better protection of our orchards and markets. 



MARKETS. 



Fruit production, not only in the United States but in Eu- 

 rope, in the year 1900 was the greatest ever known, and fears 

 were entertained that the markets would be utterly demoral- 

 ized. This, however, has not been the result in Oregon. The 

 superiority of our Italian prunes and apples attracted many 

 buyers, and remunerative prices have been realized. 



There is a great incentive to fruitgrowing in Oregon, on ac- 

 count of rapidly expanding markets. Our facilities for dis- 

 tribution are unequaled. We are in reaching distance of sev- 

 eral trunk lines of railway, which give us connection with all 

 important transportation lines on this continent. They carry 

 our fruits to New Orleans, to the Atlantic seaboard for expor- 

 tation to Liverpool ; to Manitoba and all the intermediate 

 country. Our steamships, also, take large quantities of our 

 horticultural products to Alaska and to our insular posses- 

 sions. Slowly but surely we will invade the markets of East- 

 ern Asia, and already inquiries come from Japan for quota- 

 tions for a thousand-barrel lot of apples. That immense 

 country, Siberia, the northern portion the counterpart of 

 Alaska, is being rapidly developed, and I am confident, in 

 time, will be a great market for Oregon-grown fruits. 



Pajaro (Pathro) Valley is California's greatest apple sectioa 



