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to have a commissioner in each county, appointed by the 

 county court — the same as the stock insjDectors are — and to be 

 paid by the county in which this commissioner resides, or 

 there should be more commissioners. I find my district is 

 too large for one man to undertake to visit all the orchards. 

 I think there should be four more commissioners in Eastern 

 Oregon. Two should be east of the Blue Mountains, and two 

 west of the Blue Mountains, say between the Cascade Moun- 

 tains and the Blue Mountains. 



EMILE SCHANNO, 

 Commissioner Fourth District. 



REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER. 



FIFTH DISTRICT. 



FIRST SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT. 



Cove, Oregon, October 9, 1899. 



To the President and Members of the State Board of Horticulture : 



I herewith submit to you my first semi-annual report of the 

 fifth district. I have visited all of the larger fruitgrowing- 

 districts in Union, Baker, and Malheur counties, except the 

 Burnt River district in Baker County. In the latter part of 

 July I visited Malheur County and was greatly susprised to 

 find so many large and thrifty orcliards in that part of the 

 state. I visited the orchard of the K. S. D. Fruit Land 

 Company, situated seven miles south of Ontario. This 

 orchard is on the line of the Oregon Short Line Railroad and 

 is all under the great Owyhee ditch. About one hundred 

 acres of it are in prunes, seventy-five in winter apples, 

 twenty in pears, and ten in assorted fruits. The entire two 

 hundred acres is on level ground, and, with the exception of 

 two trees that had woolly aphis (which*Mr. Danielson, the 

 manager, immediately destroyed), the orchard is free from 

 fruit pests. I had been earnestly requested by these people 

 to call on them, as they had never had a visit from a com- 

 missioner of this district, and at that time (the first of July) 

 an apparently fatal disease had struck a forty -acre four-year- 



