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Tenth Biennial Report - 7 



Recommendations 17 



Financial Statements 18 



Inspection Reports 19 



Licensed Nurseries ..— 35 



Horticultural Inspectors 37 



Order of Postmaster General 38 



Plants and Plant Products Addressed to Places in Montana 40 



Quarantines 41 



Horticultural Conditions in the Bitter Root Valley, P. T. Baden 47 



Marketing the Bitter Root Apple Crop, O. M, Gerer 53 



Kinds and Varieties of Fruit for Eastern Montana, A, L. Strausz 55 



Fruit for Eastern Montana, Letter from O. S. Chilcott 57 



Greenhouses in Montana 60 



The Alfalfa Weevil, George L Reeves..... 62 



A Review of the Alfalfa Weevil Situation, R. A. Cooley 65 



The Present Status of the White Pine Blister Rust Control in Montana, 



George A, Root 69 



A Practical Method of Fighting Wheat Rust, D. B. Swingle 74 



Grasshopper Control in Montana, J. R. Parker 80 



Horticultural Exhibits Prominent at the State Fair, Horace S. Ensign 86 



Spraying Program : 89 



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Montana Fruit at the 1918 State Fair Frontispiece 



Spraying with high pressure gives efficient control of orchard enemies 10 



A lime-sulphur plant near Missoula 13 



A mature orchard near Missoula .«.. 16 



Top-grafting may often be used to change poor varieties 48 



A good spraying outfit : 51 



Floral exhibit in the Horticultural Building, State Fair, 1918 61 



Map showing the present distribution of the alfalfa weevil 67 



Life cycle of the White Pine Blister Rust '. 70 



White pine tree dying from the effects of the rust ■ 71 



Under side of black currant leaf, showing brown-hair or autumn stage of the 



disease 72 



Map of the United States, showing Barberry Eradication District : 74 



Common barberry 76 



Japanese barberry 77 



Wheat rust on barberry and wheat 78 



Mixing poison bran mash on sheet of canvas 81 



Grasshopper catching machine 82 



Eight hundred pounds of grasshoppers 84 



Pear orchard completely defoliated in August by grasshoppers 85 



The best in the State 87 



