44 Report of State Board of Horticulture. 



When four-tier Yellow Newtowns sell for $2.25 per box, as 

 thej did last winter in the London market, it can be readily 

 seen that effective spraying is a material factor in the profits 

 of the apple grower. 



Olwell Bros., W. H. Norcrossof Central Point, Weeks & Orr, 

 J. H. Stewart, J. A. Whitman, G. Voorhees of Medford, all 

 of Jackson County, by thorough spraying with gasoline power 

 at apple gathering time find that from ninety per cent to 

 ninety -eight per cent of their apples are sound, free of worms, 

 and not infested with scale. 



During the past two years I have personally visited and in- 

 spected about 350 orchards in my district, varying in size from 

 one acre to one hundred and sixty, averaging about fifteen 

 acres to the orchard ; also have visited the fruit packing plants, 

 inspected the same, and have enforced the law as far as pos- 

 sible as to the shipping of infested fruit. I have in enforcing 

 the law in a number of cases among local fruit dealers found 

 scale infested fruit being offered for sale. In all such cases I 

 have condemned the fruit and caused it to be destroyed by 

 burning. 'I have distributed through the mail 350 copies of 

 the sixth biennial report of the State Board of Horticulture, 

 also a large number of spray bulletins, both No. 1 and No. 2. 

 I found the number of biennial reports — 350 — Pvllotted me for 

 distribution inadequate to the demands of the growers of my 

 district ; have had many applications I could not fill. 



Of tlie orchards I have visited I found the owners alive to 

 the necessity of cultivation and proper spraying, seeking to 

 know the best methods of destroying injurious insect pests 

 and fungus diseases. A great many of the progressive grow- 

 ers have been successful while others have sprayed and failed 

 in results. Many of the failures I found on investigation in 

 €ase of scale as well as codling moth to be the fault of the 

 sprayer in using the wrong compound prescribed by the state 

 board. In making the compound many growers were care- 

 less in its preparation, while a good many ignored the reme- 

 dies of the board and used remedies sold by some traveling 

 fake agent that were guaranteed to cure any disease or kill any 

 insect an orchard might be affected with. As a matter of 

 course total failure always followed in the use of the fake 

 agent's remedies. In some instances failure occurred when 

 the proper remedies were used. In all of these cases of failure 

 I found obsolete spraying outfits in use which would make it 

 impossible to apply the compound effectively. 



