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it wrapped until the tree is seven or eight years old, when, if 

 properly grown and healthful otherwise, it should be able to 

 withstand the elements. 



The almost complete failure of this year's fruit crop is very 

 discouraging, and many small growers are grubbing up or 

 neglecting their orchards, but those men who have gone into 

 fruitgrowing as a business are mainly taking good care of 

 their trees and still looking hopefully forward to next year. 



I was requested to visit the country around Astoria with a 

 view to seeing what might be done to encourage the fruit 

 industry there. It seems to me, and I so reported, that 

 apples and all kinds of small fruits could be grown very suc- 

 cessfully along the foothills, a few miles from the coast. I 

 certainly never saw^ finer raspberries and blackberries than 

 are grown in a few gardens on Bear Creek and Youngs River. 

 What few apple trees are planted are very healthy, and, prob- 

 ably owing to the fog and salt air, the fruit is not troubled by 

 the codling moth. 



In regard to enforcing the law concerning the sale of wormy 

 and diseased fruit, I have had the sections of the law applying 

 directly to this published in one or two papers in each county, 

 and have personally delivered or mailed a copy to every 

 dealer in the towns outside of Portland, and have condemned 

 several lots of fruit. 



WILBUR K. NEWELL, 

 Commissioner First District. 



SECOND SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT. 



DiLLEY, Oregon, April 9, 1900. 



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



Gentlemen : I herewith submit my report for the term 

 ending April 9, 1900 : 



During the past six months I have carefully inspected all 

 the nurseries in my district and visited several hundred 

 orchards. With two or three exceptions I have found the 

 nurseries in excellent shape, and I think I may truthfully 

 say that nothing but sound, healthy stock has been sent out 

 to purchasers. Notices have been served on over three hun- 

 dred owners of fruit trees to either destroy their trees or 

 prune and spray them ; these were mainly for trees infested 

 with San Jose scale. In every instance the notice has been 

 complied with, but frequently, I fear, in a manner that has 



