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and vigorous for transplanting as a tree three feet or four feet 

 high with the wood more thoroughly ripened. 



My choice of trees for setting a commercial orchard would 

 be always for year old stock. I would keep it thoroughly 

 cultivated. Do not try to make the land pay too big. In the 

 long run we gain if we tax our land but little during the 

 period of waiting for the bearing age of a young orchard. 

 While I have advocated the cultivation of young orchards 

 thoroughly, I would not be understood to mean that they 

 should be cultivated late in the season. Such a course would 

 leave the wood tender at the beginning of winter, and if 

 severe freezing occurs during the winter they are liable to be 

 killed. An orchard disc and Planet Junior cultivator puts 

 the ground in the best possible condition. Cultivating the 

 ground twice a month will keep it in good shape. After the 

 first of September I would discontinue the cultivator, as this 

 tends to check the flow of sap and the new wood will ripen 

 and harden more perfectly. 



If Oregon will give her best efforts to the grand staple of 

 all fruits, the apple, choose the choicest varieties, keep them 

 clean and healthy and free from the loathsome codling moth, 

 she will make for herself a reputation which California, with 

 her orange groves, will envy. 



JUDD GEER, 

 Commissioner Fifth District. 



REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



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



Gentlemen : Herewith I submit to you my first biennial 

 report. On the resignation of Mr. Henry E. Dosch as secre- 

 tary of this board in March, 1901, to accept the position of 

 general superintendent of Oregon's exhibits at the Pan-Ameri- 

 can Exposition, to be held at Buffalo, N. Y,, I was elected as 

 his successor. 



WORKINGS OF THE OFFICE. 



A very large portion of the time of the secretary is taken 

 up with correspondence. It comes from all quarters of the 



