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old apple orcliard. After seeing the trees, I decided it was 

 undoubtedly a winter kill, and advised tliem to try trimming 

 out all of the water-sprouts but five or six, as these were 

 forcing out by the hundred near the crotch of the trees. If 

 it were winter kill this would have a tendency to force the 

 growth to the upper limbs that were lying dormant. I re- 

 ceived a letter a few days since from Mr. Danielson saying 

 the entire orchard had come out in first-class condition. 



Adjoining the K. S. D. Company is the Ontario Fruit & 

 Nursery ComjDany. Certain varieties of their trees were 

 affected the same way. Mr. Van Gilsey, the manager, was 

 not at home when I called and I do not know if they gave 

 their trees the same course of treatment or not. 



At Huntington I took a team and traveled down Snake 

 River twelve or fifteen miles. The orchards all look thrifty 

 in that district, but I was informed that the codling moth was 

 obtaining quite a foothold in their orchards. It ought not to 

 be a difficult pest to subdue, as their orchards are young and 

 miles apart. 



In Powder River Valley the orchards are not large and are 

 apparently quite free from pests. 



In Grande Ronde Valley there is some moth. A good deal 

 of spraying has been done, but, as the crop is very light, it 

 has been difficult to get a certain class of growers to spray 

 with no returns in sight. 



I have condemned two shipments of pears that were literally 

 alive with San Jose scale. They were from Walla Walla and 

 were shipped by different firms. I wrote to them requesting 

 them to send no more such fruit to this country or I would 

 be compelled to adopt stringent measures in regard to it. 



JUDD GEER, 

 Commissioner Fifth District. 



SECOND SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT. 



CovE, Oregon, April 6, 1900. 



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



Gentlemen : I herewith present you m}- second semi- 

 annual report of the fifth district : 



My work during the six months just past was confined to 

 Umatilla and Union counties. On the twenty-fourth of Feb- 

 ruary I left Cove to make a tour of Umatilla County. I met 



