22 Report of State Board of Horticulture. 



SECOND DISTRICT. 



Comprises the counties of Lincoln, Marion, Polk, Benton, 

 Linn, and Lane. Lloyd T. Reynolds, Commissioner, Salem, 

 Oregon. 



Mr. Reynolds files an interesting report, discourses wisely 

 and well as to the importance of co-operative fruit organiza- 

 tions, without which best results can not be obtained. He 

 also emphasizes the value of nursery inspection and also the 

 case of a shipment of two car lots, about 45,000, badly in- 

 fested peach trees from Pennsylvania. These trees were 

 quarantined and consignors notified that they must be re- 

 shipped or disinfected, but failing to do this, the entire lot 

 was burned. 



The value of fruit and fruit products for the biennial 

 period covered by the report was as follows : — 



I90i. 1902. 



Prunes $ 225,000 $ 200,000 



Cherries 00,000 10,000 



Pears 6,000 5,000 



Apples 58,000 100,000 



Other fruits and fruit products 33,000 100,000 



8 382,000 8 415,000 



THIRD DISTRICT. 



Comprises the counties of Jackson, Douglas, Klamath, Coos^ 

 Curry, and Lake. A. H. Carson, Commissioner, Grants Pass, 

 Oregon. 



As usual, Mr. Carson files a full and interesting report. 

 Mr. Carson during the vears 1901 and 1902 received and 

 answered 400 letters, distributed 350 copies of sixth biennial 

 report and large numbers of our spray bulletin, served upon 

 owners of infested orchards 250 notices, and visited 350 or- 

 chards. 



The third district produced in the past two years — 



Apples- 300,000 boxes 



Pears_ lliO.OOO boxes 



Peaches 160,000 boxes 



Prunes, cured 800,000 pounds 



Apples, cured "- 200,000 pounds 



Peaches, cured 150,000 pounds 



Small fruits to the value of- 8 60,000 



Estimated value of crop for the two years— 703,000 



Jackson County has twenty-five gasoline power spraying 

 outfits which do the work more thoroughly and lessen the 

 cost fifty per cent. Fifteen hundred acres were planted in 

 the third district last fall and spring. 



