BIENNIAL REPORT 



most. The majority of fruit growers will spray earlier next season than 

 they have heretofore. 



The inspection of green fruit was resumed June 1st, of this year, when 

 Mr. Fay Thompson was appointed deputy inspector for Kalispell. The 

 number of packages of fruit inspected to October 1st is 4,098 and one car 

 load of 450 boxes. 



The fruit inspection regulations of the State Board are being complied 

 with, and have the support of every dealer in the county. The dealers of 

 Libby applied for the apointment of a deputy at that point. C. R. Down- 

 ing was appointed, Dallas Haskill was appointed deputy at Columbia Falls. 

 When this system of inspection and collecting fees was first inaugurated, 

 the dealers all grumbled and complained, but after one year's trial there 

 are no heartier supporters of the Horticultural law than the merchants 

 of this district. With the commission houses of other states, however, the 

 law is unpopular which tends to show that the rules laid down by the State 

 Board are being enforced and are benefitting the consumer of fruit as well 

 as the grower of fruit here, and also the dealers. 



E. E. PARSONS, 

 Kalispell. Inspector Fifth District. 



Mr. C. H. Edwards, Secretary State Board of Horticulture, Missoula, Mont. 



Dear Sir: — In making up a report as Inspector for First District, I 

 find a great many obstacles. 



First — It has been impossible for me to inspect either fruit or orchards 

 in Dawson, Custer, Park, Sweet Grass, or Carbon counties, owing to the 

 great distance and small compensation and did not deem it wise to appoint 

 deputies in these counties on account of fund, thinking that the larger 

 fruit growing sections were much more in need of the funds. There have 

 been a great many trees planted in this district the last two years, the 

 largest number for any one county going to Carbon county, where about 

 three car loads were sold this year. These trees mostly having been in- 

 spected at Missoula. 



Yellowstone county set out about two car loads of trees this year, 

 Sweet Grass and Park about a car load between them. A great many 

 email fruits have been planted, such as currants, blackberries, raspberries, 

 strawberries, etc. 



Fruit trees so far are mostly clean but some of the older orchards are 

 beginning to show signs of codling moth, this season being a very long 

 and extremely dry and hot one. A great many new pests have shown up 

 on all our shade trees, especially the cottonwood, which has heretofore been 

 considered free from all pests. 



The trees in this district, nearly all being young, have not as yet borne 



