a more healthy, rational condition. I want to just mention 

 four or five things as illustrating this change. 



In the North Yakima district 1 was told by the inspector 

 there that they had pulled out and cleaned up 2.000 acres 

 that had been set to orchards there because it was not doing 

 well, was not profitable, principally because it was a wrong 

 type of soil. Of course, 2000 acres is not a great deal, but it 

 is a help. 



I traveled for a long distance east of Wenatchee, com- 

 ing down the Valley there into Wenatchee through a section 

 which had been one of the boom sections, and had been set 

 out, practically the whole section, to orchards. And all the 

 trees are dead. These orchards have been absolutely 

 abandoned, turned over to the prairie dog or the coyte. 

 i inquired into that when I got into Wenatchee. They said 

 most of those propositions were boom propositions, devel- 

 opment propositions, that had been handled, — well we know 

 how they are! They organize a comnany and Iniy up three 

 or four thousand acres of land, get some water on it. then 

 go to some other good section nearby and get their best fruit 

 and then stick up a sign in Washington Street, Boston. 

 ''This is the kind of apple we are proposing to grow. You 

 can buy the land at !^500 an acre and pay so much a year.'" 

 Then when they got them under way they found they didn't 

 have water enough and at the end of the five-year period 

 Avhen the orchards came into the hands of the purchasers, 

 they went out and looked into the situation and found 

 There was the orchard set out all right, but not a sufficient 

 amount of water to keep the thing going. They either had 

 to give it up and drop the whole thing right there or else 

 put a lot more money into it to get a sufficient amount of 

 irrigation water to take care of it. In all this section I have 

 just mentioned they decided the cost of getting the addi- 

 tional water was not warranted and the best thing tliey 

 could do was simply drop it. 



In Medford, Oregon, I saw a smaller affair that inter- 

 ested me a lot. I ^Mas driving out with the Inspector there 



