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should be made state officers paid by the state, and to secure protection 

 which all counties, even the smallest, if fruit culture is important, 

 districts not counties should be the units, though generally the county 

 and district would be identical. Now the county commissioners and 

 their deputies must pass an examination. It would certainly be an 

 improvement if all commissioners, their deputies and inspectors, were 

 appointed under civil service regulations, all having to pass an exami- 

 nation. Every county growing fruit or dealing in the same should be 

 required to maintain the office of horticultural commissioner. In all 

 inter-county shipments a most thorough inspection should be required 

 at the point of shipment and of delivery, until experience demonstrates 

 that the latter is not necessary. Of course California will be content 

 with nothing but the best, but she will feel safer if all other nearby 

 states are like fortunate. No state is entirely exempt from danger 

 until each state enacts and enforces the best law possible. 



In drafting the proposed law several associations and committees 

 have worked hard, and it is greatly to be hoped that the bill in process 

 of formation may be worthy of endorsement. — A. J. C. 



Potato Blight and Burgundy Mixture (Agr. Gaz. N. S. W., Vol. 

 XXV, part I, pp. 48-50.) — Burgimdy mixture i.s superior to Bordeaux 

 because it adheres longer to the foliage and is easier to prepare. Bur- 

 gundy mixture is prepared by dissolving 2 pounds of copper sulphaie 

 and 2^ pounds of washing soda separately in water; pour the soda 

 solution into the solution of copper sulphate and make up to 10 gallons 

 with water. If the mixture turns blue litmus-paper red, add more 

 washing soda solution. Use as soon as made. Twenty pounds of 

 copper sulphate and 25 pounds of washing soda are sufficient to spray 

 an acre of potatoes. — Journal Royal Hort. Society, London, August, 

 1914. 



State Horticultural Society of Oregon.— It was a very great pleas- 

 ure to be present at and to address the annual meeting of the Oregon 

 State Horticultural Society at its late gathering at Medford, Oregon. 

 I could be present but two days. The attendance was mainly local and 

 nnich less than we have at our State Fruit Growers' Conventions. No 

 sessions were held in the evenings, and though the program was of 

 high order, there was not a single actual grower who took part. I 

 have always felt that the ideal program was divided about equally 

 between experts from the college, experiment station and university 

 and doers right from the orchard, who by their energy and good judg- 

 ment had won confidence and general recognition as men who had 

 achieved exceptional success. This meeting illustrates the difficulty of 

 attracting the fruit growers, even in states much smaller in area than 

 is California. 



An address on "Pear Blight" by Mr. F. C. Reimer of Talent, Ore- 

 gon, director of the experiment station at that jolace, treated this very 

 timely and im]iortant subject in a masterful manner. Mr. Reimer 

 shows that root blight is what should concern us most, as it is always 

 a center of contagion and is difficult to detect and treat. He showed 

 further that by getting certain kinds we could secure resistant varieties 

 and also those bearing fruit of highest (piality. I am sure all will 

 rejoice in the fact that Mr. Reimer has promised to be with us and give 



