REPORT OF STATE BOARD OF HORTICULTURE. 59 



States. Man}^ of the tipples, Yellow Newtowns, Wine Sap, 

 Lawyer (long keepers) , are exported to England, Australia, 

 Japan, and China. 



Some of the larger growers in Jackson County export to 

 foreign markets and sell in carlots to Eastern jobbers. Last 

 season Olwell Brotliers, of Central Point, sold their crop for 

 $14,000, f. o. b. Weeks & Orr, of Central Point, sent their 

 Yellow Newtown Pippins to Liverpool, and their returns net- 

 ted them $1.00 to $1.20 per box. 



The prune crop is all cured in evaporators, sold in sacks, 

 or boxed, and is consumed in the Middle West, East, and 

 South. 



The peach output is marketed as far east as Chicago, Saint 

 Louis, and in all tlie states west of the Mississippi. 



COMPARATIVE CONDITIONS. 



The conditions of the orchards of tlie tliird district are 

 improving eacli year in methods of cultivation, pruning, 

 spraying, and the packing and marketing of fi'uit. 



Many men who embarked in the business of fruitgrowing 

 a dozen years ago had no technical or practical knowledge at 

 their beginning. Tliese men had much to learn. The 

 improved conditions of tlieir orchards, their enthusiasm over 

 their success, and the kindly greetings tliey meet the commis- 

 sioner with on visiting their orchards, warrants me in saying 

 that the efforts of the commissioner has done much for the 

 industry, and is appreciated by the mass of the growers. 



Fruitmeu who at the beginning could not distinguish or 

 identify injurious insect pests, and fungous diseases, through 

 the efforts and teachings of the State Board of Horticulture 

 have become experts in that line, and have become teachers 

 of their less experienced neighbors. 



SPRAYING. 



Spraying for insect pests, and fungous diseases incident to 

 fruit culture, is comparatively of recent origin. In 1886, 

 Prof. A. J. Cook, of the Michigan Agricultural College, dem- 

 onstrated its success, and since that date it has gradually 

 increased from year to year. Sprajdng increased during 1900, 

 in the third district, one hundred per cent, over any previous 

 year since spraying was thought of. Growers whose orchards 

 were badly infested with San Jose scale in 1899, through want 



