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NOTES FROM THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. 



ORCHARD SURVEY. 



By Geo. P. Weldon, Chief Deputy State Commissioner of Horticulture. 



Commissioner Garden of San Joaquin County is busy making a care- 

 ful orchard survey to determine the bearing and non-bearing acreage of 

 fruits in his county. This work is of great importance in connection 

 with the work of compiling crop statistics, for which there is an increas- 

 ing demand. It has always been a difficult matter to get accurate 

 figures on what the normal crop production of a county should be. In 

 many cases this can only be estimated from the acreage, making the 

 securing of same of great importance. Other commissioners have also 

 begun this orchard survey work, and reliable figures on acreage and 

 production may soon be expected from all of the fruit producing 

 counties. 



H. P. Stabler is instituting a campaign against the red spider (Tet- 

 ranychus bimaculatus) in Sutter County. For the first time this season 

 the pest was found to be quite abundant in certain orchards, on June 

 22d. Previous to this date the brown mite {Bryohia pratensis) has been 

 at work and considerable damage has resulted from its attack. 



REPORT OF STATE BOARD OF HORTICULTURAL EXAMINERS. 



Since the last report the following men have qualified for the position 

 of county horticultural connnissioner in the counties named: 



Santa Clara County— San Diego County— 



G E Merrill. Robert R. McLean. 



*Eari Morris. H. A. Weinland. 



L. R. Cody. John A. Prizer. 



H. M. Armitage. 



El Dorado County — E. L. Prizer. 



J. E. Hassler. Murray Ferguson. 



Merced County — Colusa County — 



W. D. Butler. L. R. Boedefeld. 



J. J. Fox. E. F. St. Louis. 



Tehama County — 

 Chas. B. Weeks. 



A. J. Cook, 

 Thos. F. Hunt, 

 Harry S. Smith, 



State Board of Horticultural Examiners. 



June 30, 1914. 



*Has been re-appointed County Horticultural Commissioner. 



