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may raise trees. I also find a good many peacli trees and prune 

 trees that do very well. Almost any kind of a tree that is 

 grafted on a peach root does better on bimchgrass land than 

 any other kind of a tree. The reason of that is they have no 

 deep roots. 



There was a large fruit crop raised in my district this year 

 that was not so much on account of the older orchards, but 

 there Avas a great many young orchards began bearing this 

 year. 



As to the amount of fruit shipped from my district, I could 

 not tell exactly ; but there were about forty cars of jDrunes and 

 plums in the green state, then there is about ten cars of dried 

 prunes that will be shipped, and some that will be used here 

 in the local market, and about eight carloads of pears. There 

 were about ten thousand boxes of apples shipped from here 

 from different localities ; but the largest amount of apples are 

 still in the hands of the growers. There were also a great many 

 peaches and grapes shipped. This has reference only to The 

 Dalles. I think there was about as much fruit shipped from 

 other localities in my district, say Hood River, Hosier, Grants 

 and Blalocks. 



Often the question comes up in my district, whether 

 manuring an orchard is a benefit or whether it is an injury. 

 My experience is this, that I would not advise anybody to 

 put fresh barnyard manure on an orchard, as I believe it to 

 be injurious ; but a well-rotted manure will be all right. In 

 the last two years I have found two orchards in my district 

 that were planted side by side ; the same variety of fruit, the 

 same soil, and planted at the same time. One of the orchards 

 has had a good deal of care and cultivation, and also had a 

 good deal of manure hauled into it, while the other orchard 

 has had hardly any care at all ; and this orchard has produced 

 about five boxes of apples, while the other orchard has pro- 

 duced but one box, and trees on this orchard have mostly all 

 died out. I give my reason foi- that that it had too much 

 barnyard manure hauled into it. I tried the same experience 

 in my orchard, where I put some barnyard manure about a 

 tree, and the second year I noticed that the tree was not doing- 

 well, and the limbs began to show signs of decay ; and for 

 that reason I think the fresh barnyard manure is an injury to 

 a tree. 



As to laws governing the State Board of Horticulture, I 

 think it would be a good idea if the laws were changed so as 



