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advise any one to plant many of them ; but they fill the place 

 when the Ben Davis and the Spitzenburg are gone. 



It looks to me as if there ought to be a law passed in this 

 state compelling every person, who offers to sell fruit of any 

 kind, to have his name on the boxes, and the locality where 

 the fruit was raised ; also the name of the fruit, and if apples, 

 to state the size on the box, whether it is a four, five, or six- 

 tier apple. That would protect the honest fruit growers. If 

 the grower or the fruit packer is ashamed to put his name on 

 his fruit, he ought to get out of the business. When you see 

 a nice box of apples on the market at a fruit stand anywhere, 

 you will invariably find the packer's, or, at least, the fruit 

 grower's name on it ; but when you find an inferior lot of 

 fruit you will never see any name on it. 



How often the good housewife goes to market and buys a 

 box of apples and finds nice four-tier apples on the top of the 

 box, and in the bottom finds nothing but six-tier apples, or 

 even a lot of poor rotten stuff. There ought to be some pun- 

 ishment attached to dealings of that kind, and I leave it for 

 the board to take up. 



EMILE SHANNO, 

 Commissioner Fourth District. 



SECOND QUARTERLY REPORT, JULY, 190L 



The Dalles, Oregon, July 5, 1901. 

 To the President and Members of the State Board of Horticulture — 



Gentlemen : The following is a report of my work for the 

 months of April, May, and June : 



I have visited different parts of my district and I find that 

 there will be a good average fruit crop ; some of the trees are 

 overloaded, rendering it necessary to remove part of the fruit. 

 The prospect for a good price for fruit this fall is better than 

 I have ever seen here. There are buyers now in my district 

 offering to contract for apples, such varieties as the Spitzen- 

 burg and the Yellow Newtown, at $1.25 per box, and are 

 willing as soon as contracts are signed, to make advances on 

 that basis, but there are very few people willing to make con- 

 tracts at this figure. 



Tliere has been a good deal of spraying done this spring and 

 summer for the codling moth, but I find that some of the grow- 

 ers have not used enough lime and have made their arsenic 

 spray too strong, and thereby burned the leaves ; this is a 



