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REPORT OF STATE BOARD OF HORTICULTURE. 



The four counties named below are those having commer- 

 cial orchards : 



IN CARLOTS. 



Respectfully submitted, 



JUDD GEER, 



Commissioner Fifth District. 



EEPORT OF QUARANTINE OFFICER FOR 

 COOS AND CURRY COUNTIES. 



Marshfield, Oregon, May 31, 1900. 



To the State Board of Horticulture — 



Gentlemen : I herewith submit my report as quarantine 

 officer of Marshfield, Coos County : 



After my appointment I caused the publication of the 

 quarantine regulations in a newspaper, and posted them at 

 four different places in the county and also on the courthouse. 



A large shipment of nursery stock arrived in Marshfield 

 from Ontario County, New York, shipped by May & Company, 

 the apple trees of which were infected with the woolly aphis, 

 the pear trees by a bark disease similiar to the crater blight, 

 some also by the pear blight, the cherry trees of the sweet 

 varieties by the gummosis, the raspberries by the anthracnose, 

 and the peach trees showed indication of the peach-yellows. 

 A certificate of inspection from the state agricultural inspector 

 of that state accompanied the shipment. I have burnt the 

 pear, cherry and peach trees, also the raspberries, and ordered 

 disinfection of the rest, wliich was duly carried out. After 



