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ing a success in spraying for the codling moth. One grower 

 especially, Mr. C. Sayers, of Hood River, saved about ninety- 

 five per cent, of his apples last year by spraying, and his 

 apples brought him from $1.50 to $1.75 per box, although 

 they were of the Ben Davis variety. Some fruitgrowers may 

 say tliat this was mere luck, but I consider it no luck at all, 

 but merely the result of the care he took of liis trees, as those 

 of his neighbors who did not spray hardly had any apples at 

 all but what were wormy. I shall endeavor to obtain a cor- 

 rect statement from Mr. Sayers in the near future showing 

 the number of times he spra3'ed his orchard, and what kind 

 of spray he used, and also the price he realized for his apples. 

 The output of apples tliis year in my district will be greatly 

 increased from that of former years, as there is in tlie neigh- 

 borhood of four or five hundred acres of young trees that are 

 from five to six years old, and will come into bearing this 

 summer. They are mostly all in large tracts, and if nothing 

 happens, I am satisfied there will be from seventy-five to one 

 liundred carloads of apples shipped out of here this next fall. 

 Respectfully submitted, 



EMILE SCHANNO, 

 Commissioner Fourth District. 



FINAL REPORT. 



The Dalles, Oregon, December 1, 1900. 



To the Honorable State Board of Horticulture — 



Gentlemen : I respectfully submit to you herewith my 

 report as Commissioner of the Fourth Horticultural District, 

 from January 1, 1899, to January 1, 1901 : 



My district comprises the following counties : Sherman, 

 Wasco, Gilliam, Morrow, Wheeler, and Crook. 



To attempt to give anything new in my report of the hor- 

 ticultural condition of my district is quite difficult, as I have 

 gone over this same work about four or five times in the last 

 ten years and there is hardly anything new. There has not 

 been a great many changes in my district in the last two 

 years. The fruitgrowers are improving and they understand 

 the planting, and the soil, and the variety of fruit better at 



