52 REPORT OF STATE BOARD OF HORTICULTURE. 



Fruitgrowers have met with many discouragements during 

 the past 3"ear, but have gained in strength of purpose and 

 increased ability, having met and overcome new difficulties. 

 To reach the highest success in fruit culture, however, grow- 

 ers must learn to practice those things which all should know 

 are essential — thorough cultivation, careful pruning, spray- 

 ing, drying, or packing. Unless attention is given to all 

 these details, one can no longer expect to reap a satisfactory 

 reward for his toil. 



L. T. REYNOLDS, 

 Commissioner Second District. 



EEPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER. 



THIRD DISTRICT. 



SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT. 



Grants Pass, Oregon, April 9, 1900. 



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



The indications for a large fruit crop of all kinds in the 

 third district were never more promising in the history of the 

 industry than at the present. Climatic conditions through 

 the winter were favorable, and trees of all varieties planted 

 in soils adapted to their growth indicated strong vitality and 

 an abundance of bloom. Pruning the different varieties is 

 being better understood and has been more largely practiced 

 on intelligent lines the present season than I have ever before 

 observed in this section. 



Spraying for insect pests and fungous diseases has been 

 done to a large extent, much more than years heretofore. I 

 served about two hundred notices through the mail to spray 

 and eradicate the scale, in each case inclosing a copy of 

 house bill No. 238, and in nearly all cases the notices were 

 complied with, or the orchards w^ere dug up by the owners 

 and burned. The sentiment and disposition of all the large 

 growers is to obey the law and eradicate the pests in their 

 orchards ; but the very small growers, those with a few trees 

 in the towns, belonging to nonresidents, I find are negligent 

 and evasive, and are not inclined to clean their trees of 

 injurious pests. 



