"28 Report of State Board of Horticulture. 



Coos and Curry, both coast counties, are largely engaged in the 

 dairy business. Lake and Klamath Counties, in southeastern Ore- 

 gon, owing to the vast ranges of bunch grass on the mountains, 

 and the .wonderful yield of alfalfa in the valleys, are principally 

 devoted to stockraising. The want of railroad facilities has re- 

 tarded their horticultural development. 



The soils and climatic conditions of these counties are favorable 

 to horticultural development, and it will be but a short time until 

 the great profits from apple-growing will engage the attention of 

 the people of these four counties, as railroads are now being built 

 into these counties. 



To describe by counties the value and extent of lands adapted 

 to horticultural pursuits in the Third District I find is impossible. 

 The area of such lands is so vast that an estimate of the acreage and 

 value would be mere guesswork and of little practical value. It is 

 not unreasonable for me to say that at the present not 10 per cent 

 of the lands of the seven counties of the Third District adapted to 

 horticultural pursuits are planted and devoted to the industry. 



To approximate the value of horticultural land, there are bearing 

 apple orchards in the Rogue River Valley that for the past three 

 years have paid their owners $600 an acre. It must be understood 

 not all bearing apple orchards in the Rogue River Valley during 

 that time have paid their o\^Taers that sum per acre, as there are 

 orchards that have only paid $150 to $200 per acre. 



These men who derived the less amount per acre from their 

 orchards, so far as soil and age of orchard are concerned, had equal 

 opportunity with the men who made $600 per acre ; but many lit- 

 tle details, such as thinning out their fruit at the proper time, the 

 neglect to spray for the moth, etc., lessened their profits. The 

 profits, greater or less, is purely a question of personality, a love 

 of the business, and to do things, and not drift. 



That the Third District has greatly improved in horticultural 

 pursuits during the past two years, for comparative purposes I sub- 

 mit the gross value of f imits sold in 1901 and 1902 : 



Apples, boxes 



Pears, boxes 



Prunes, pounds cured 



Apples, pounds dried 



Peaches, pounds 



Small fruits, berries, etc., crates— _ 

 Gross value for the two years. 



300,000 

 ItiO.OOO 

 8,000,000 

 200,000 

 130,000 

 50,000 



S . 703,000 00 



