34 REPORT OF STATE BOARD OF HORTICULTURE. 



REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER. 



FIRST DISTRICT. 



FIRST SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT. 



DiLLEY, Oregon, Oct. 9, 1899. 



To the President and Members of the State Board of Horticulture : 



Herewith I present my first semi-annual report. My ap- 

 pointment, in April last, to succeed Mr. Henry E. Dosch as 

 commissioner for the first district, was very much in the na- 

 ture of a surprise to me. The work being all new to me, I 

 have endeavored, during the present season, to obtain a gen- 

 eral idea of the conditions over the most important parts of 

 ni}- district, leaving it to be worked more thoroughly later. 

 Therefore I have visited mainlv the larger orchards and in- 

 terviewed the most prominent growers. 



In Yamhill County I have visited McMinnville, Carlton, 

 North Yamhill, Lafayette, New^berg, Dundee, and Dayton, 

 stopping at all the principal orchards, dryers, and packing 

 houses ; in Washington County the Dilley, Gaston, Forest 

 Grove, Cornelius, Hillsboro, and Cedar Mills districts ; in 

 Columbia County, between Scappoose and St. Helens ; in 

 Clatsop County, the Youngs River, and Lewis and Clark River 

 Districts, and the Clatsop Plains ; in Clackamas County the 

 Milwaukie, Oregon City, Springwater, New Era, and Canby 

 districts; in Multnomah County, the Columbia Slough, Sandy, 

 Base Line, Section Line, and Powell Valley roads, each to a 

 point about ten miles distant from Portland. Tillamook 

 County I have not visited at all. 



In parts of my district I find many orchards badly infested 

 with the San Jose scale, especially between Oregon City and 

 the Columbia River. In this region it is so prevalent that it 

 was useless to attempt to fight it with summer sprays, but I 

 propose to wage vigorous war on this dangerous pest during 

 the winter months. In one orchard, tw^o miles south of Or- 

 egon City, I found a few scale on young apple trees, undoubt- 

 edly brought there on nursery stock, and at Newberg one pear 

 orchard was found slightly infested with it. With these two 

 exceptions, which were ordered cleaned up, I have failed to 



