50 Report of State Board of Horticulture. 



period of this district help of all kinds had to be taught how 

 to do it. Froir year to year the packers employ their old help 

 until nearly all help employed have become expert. For neat, 

 rapid apple, peach, or pear packing, the handsome girls of 

 Rogue River Valley and the Umpqua can not be beaten. 



I think no finer or artistic pack of apples were ever put on 

 the market than I saw packed last fall bv J. A. Whitman, 

 Weeks & Orr, G. Vorhees of Medford, Olwell Bros, and W. H. 

 Norcross of Central Point, T. P. Lee and H. B. Miller of Grants 

 Pass, or of peaches j^acked by the Ashland Fruit Association, 

 under the management of G. W. Crowson, the superintendent. 

 All of these packers believe the trade demands the best, and in 

 season they are ready to suppl}^ the demand. 



As a suggestion for the state board's consideration, I believe 

 we should have printed blanks for fruit inspection, officially 

 signed in blank by the president and secretary of the board, 

 with a blank space left for signature of the member of the 

 board who makes the inspection to sign, in case he inspects a 

 car of apples or other fruit for packers in his district. That 

 the member of the board only makes the inspection at the 

 request of the packer and issues the certificate only when he 

 has made a careful inspection and knows the contents of the 

 car is in no manner infected with injurious insect pests. By 

 doing this we would aid the packer who ships his pack to 

 states which have stringent quarantine laws, and we would 

 establish confidence in the minds of the buyer, and in time 

 the certificate of inspection of the board would be respected 

 and honored in all markets Oregon ships her fruit to. 



Last winter I was called upon to inspect several cars of 

 apples, which I did. I found them in fine condition and free 

 of injurious insect pests. I issued my certificate as commis- 

 sioner of the third district, by writing the same on any sheet 

 of paper I could obtain. The packer desires to send these 

 certificates with his shipping bill. A certificate, to carry any 

 weight with it, should be in an official form and attested by 

 the officers of the board to entitle it to any respect out of the 

 state. 



A. H. CARSON, 

 Commissioner Third District. 



