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Report of State Board of Horticulture. 



Commissioner Newell's district is about the size of Connecticut 

 and Rhode Island. 



Commissioner Park's district about equals in area Maine and 

 Delaware. 



Commissioner Carson of the Third District has a very respectable 

 district as to area, corresponding to that of Connecticut, Vermont, 

 Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Delaware. 



Commissioner Weber's Fourth District is about the size of Con- 

 necticut, New Jersey, and Delaware. 



Commissioner Geer of the Fifth District has a nice, roomy dis- 

 trict, equal to the combined area of Connecticut, Vermont, Mas- 

 sachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Delaware. 



Our horticultural law requires that the Commissioner at Large 

 shall visit each of these districts at least once a year, and that he 

 shall personally inspect most of the orchards (presumably of the 

 State) during the fruit-growing season. Your Commissioner can- 

 didly confesses his inability to comply with this last provision, un- 

 less your honorable body amend the act by very considerably 

 lengthening the fruit-growing season. 



GENERAL CONDITIONS. 



For a better understanding as to the physical character of the 

 fruit-growing sections of the State, the condition of this industry 

 at the present time, and the detailed operations of the Board, you 

 are respectfully refeiTcd to the reports of the Commissioners sub- 

 mitted herewith. I beg leave, however, to briefly summarize: 



First District, Wilbur K. Neivell, C(ynimissioner . 



]Mr. Newell finds the acreage, number of trees, and value of crop 

 in the First District to be as follows: 



Apple 



Cht^Ty 



Peur 



Poach 



Prime I 



Plum j 



Grapes 



Strawberries . 

 Blackberries. 



Currants 



CTOOsoberries 

 Raspberries - 

 Other Jruit. ... 

 Nuts 



6,437 

 870 

 921 



289 



7,775 



189 

 683 

 296 

 72 

 60 

 200 



Total value of crop for 1901 . 



No. of Ti-ees 



77.5, HI 



S7,248 



101,162 



28,rj38 



788,304 



Value of Crop 

 f90i 



26,.577 

 14,116 



90,000 00 

 30,000 00 

 20,000 00 

 20,000 00 



40,000 00 



.3.5,000 00 



90,000 00 



30,000 00 



6,000 00 



6.000 00 



8,000 00 



10,000 0(J 



$ 385,000 00 



