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for tlie purpose of the test. The spraying occurred May 1, 

 just as the apples slied their bloom ; then on May 20, June 10, 

 July 1, Juh' 25. and August 20 — six times during the season. 

 At gathering time a careful test was made. One hundred 

 apples were picked fi-om eacli tree, and the thousand aj^ple's 

 were all opened with the knife. Nine hundred and sixty-five 

 of the apples were sound and free of worms ; thirty-five were 

 wormy. Only three and one-half per cent, of wormy apples, 

 while other trees in my orchard that year that were left un- 

 sprayed, or sprayed once for the purpose of the test, showed 

 only twenty-five to forty per cent, of the apples to be sound 

 and free of worms. 



The codling moth is with us. He is a foreign importation. 

 We have got to beat him. We can do it with an intelligent 

 use of the spray-pump ; otherwise go out of the business of 

 raising apples. 



A. H. CARSON, 

 Commissioner Third District. 



FINAL REPORT. 



THIRD DISTRICT. 



(trants Pass, Oregon, December 1, 1900. 



To the Honorable State Board of Horticulture — 



Gentlemen : In compiling this, my first biennial report 

 as Commissioner of the Third Horticultural District, I meet 

 with some difficulty in making it as complete as it should be, 

 as my appointment dates from August 1, 1899, when I 

 succeeded Hon. J. R. Casey, of Ashland, Oregon, resigned. 

 The time and means at my disposal has made it impossible 

 for me to visit all of the orchards in the third district, em- 

 bracing the counties of Douglas, Jackson, Klamath, Josephine, 

 Coos, Curry and Lake. 



On assuming the duties of Commissioner of the Third 

 District I found that my predecessor had done much valuable 

 field work along the railroad, where the larger orchards are 

 situated ; that there was much field work to do, and a 

 demand for information from the smaller orchardists back 



