54 Report of State Board of Horticulture. 



very large area, comprising the counties of Wasco, Sherman, 

 Gilliam, Morrow, Wheeler, and Crook. M}^ appointment dates 

 from June 12, 1902, having been appointed to fill the unex- 

 pired term of Mr. Emile Schanno, deceased. 



Owing to my short incumbency of the office, this report 

 must necessarily be brief, and it will lack that completeness 

 in detail which only observation and investigation can impart. 



I have so far confined my labors entirely to those sections 

 of the district containing the largest orchards, and to the 

 inspection of nurseries. 



While I have been familiar for quite a number of years with 

 orcharding in the district, it may be said that my general 

 knowledge is of a superficial nature only, and lacks that close 

 scrutiny which the laws demand of the members of the 8tate 

 Board of Horticulture. 



So far as my observations extend, I am most favorably 

 impressed with existing conditions and the high state of per- 

 fection of most of the orchards I have visited. Of course I 

 have scarcely visited anything but orchards of commercial size, 

 up to date, and my next report may be less flattering, for by 

 that time I hope to have been able to visit most of the fruit 

 growing sections of the district. While I have inspected quite 

 a number of orchards, I have found no signs of that much 

 dreaded insect, the San Jose scale, in any of them, and I believe 

 that it has practically disappeared from our commercial or- 

 chards. 



This is further indicated by the entire absence of the insect 

 on the fruit offered for sale on the stands of the commission 

 men, when a few years ago it was not an infrequent occui*- 

 rence to find infested fruit offered for sale. There are now, no 

 doubt, some small orchards throughout the country, where 

 scale may be found in great abundance, as also on the fruit 

 trees in our city and town lawns, where spraying is not j)rac- 

 ticed at all or only in an unmethodical and desultory fashion ; 

 but even these cases are not alarming, and even here it is being 

 stamped out. I shall give my particular attention to the cleans- 

 ing of these small orchards when the proper time for spray- 

 ing arrives. The fact that we have successfully combated, 

 and practically eradicated the scale, should not make us slack 

 in our vigilance, however, and I would advise that every orchard 

 in the district be sprayed with the sulphur, salt and lime solu- 

 tion at least once each year, and thus frustrate its every eflfort 

 to ever again become established in our orchards. 



