56 REPORT OF STATE BOARD OF HORTICULTURE. 



from the railroad. To meet this demand a greater part of 

 my work since my appointment has been done for the infor- 

 mation and encouragement of the smaller growers. 



I have received and answered one hundred and sixty letters 

 from various parts of my district on subjects pertaining to 

 the various phases of horticulture ; have marled and dis- 

 tributed one hundred and twenty volumes of the Fifth 

 Biennial Report of the State Board of Horticulture among 

 fruitgrowers, and sent through the mail two hundred notices 

 of disinfection, with copy of house bill No. 238, to growers 

 whose orchards were infested with San Jose scale. I found 

 these notices of disinfection, together with a copy of the law, 

 produced results, as men who owned orchards infested with 

 scale were stimulated to make the effort to clean their orchards 

 of these injurious pests. In most cases they met with success 

 and established confidence in their minds that careful, 

 thorough spraying, with the remedies advised by the State 

 Board, was in their interest. Their success in destroying the 

 scale in their orchards has put them in touch with the State 

 Board, and their success is an inducement to a neighbor to 

 study the virtues of spraying ; hence, from now on public 

 sentiment will largely endorse remedies suggested by the 

 State Board, and in a short time spraying will become uni- 

 versal throughout this district. 



Have visited and inspected about two hundred and six 

 orchards since my appointment, with an average acreage of 

 fifteen. 



Two-thirds of the acreage of the orchards planted in Jackson 

 and Josephine counties are devoted to apple growing, the 

 other one-third to peaches, prunes and pears. In Douglas 

 County the prune industry is taking the lead. The soil and 

 climatic conditions of Douglas County is congenial to the 

 prune, and in quality the county grows a prune that has no 

 superior in size or flavor. The prune industry of Douglas is 

 increasing yearly, and in time her output will be very large. 



It must not be understood that because Douglas County 

 makes the prune her leading fruit crop that she does not grow 

 the apple, peach and pear in large quantities and fine quality. 



The leading varieties of apples grown in the third district 

 are the Ben Davis, Esopus Spitzenberg, Jonathan, Mammoth 

 Pippin, Wine Sap, and Yellow Newtown, and Gravenstein for 

 the fall market. Of pears, the Bartlett stands first, then 

 Winter Nellis, Clapp's Favorite and Flemish Beauty. The 



