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obtained a footing. Tliere is some peach and plum rosette in some sections 
in this State, but, as fast as symptoms of the disease appear, the infested 
trees are promptly destroyed and by this means it is held in good control. In 
the greater part of the State these diseases a re' hot known. Our growers are 
fully up to date in regard to remedies for insects, and fungus and other diseases 
Bordeaux mixture is the popular remedy for all classes of fungous diseases. 
For curculio, jarring is practiced by some. Many add Paris green to Bor- 
deaux mixture and apply it for the benefit of the curculio. 
9. Irrigation. Irrigation is not practiced to any considerable extent in 
this State. Some of our gardeners and truck growers use it to good advan- 
tage. 
10. Statistics. We have no data from which we can get the area devoted 
to the various kinds of fruits, but we estimate the net value of the crop of 
peaches alone for 1898 at one million dollars. 
11. Evaporating Fruits. There are a few evaporating plants, which are 
principally used for evaporating the surplus peaches. 
12. Hardiness of Species and Varieties. The severe freeze of last Febru- 
ary injured peach orchards, the loss varying from nothing to 25 per cent of 
the trees. Figs were cut down to the ground by the same freeze. We have 
not sufficient data at our command to enable us to report in regard to the 
hardiness of the different varieties. 
IDAHO. 
BY ROBERT MILLIKEN, NAMPA, CHAIRMAN. 
1. There are .two important fruit sections in the State of Idaho; the 
larger and more important being in the southwestern part of the State, 
occupying the valley of the Snake river and its tributaries. The interest 
centers in Ada., Canyon and Washington counties with small areas extending 
into Owyhee and Cassia on the south and Elmore and Boise on the east. 
The second section is in the northern part of the State centering in the lower 
valley of Clearwater river, and northward with Lewiston at the mouth 
of the Clearwater river and Moscow thirty miles to the north as the principal 
towns in the section. 
2. The soil in the southwest sections or Snake river valley is of volcanic 
(origin underlaid by extensive lava flows, and is made up largely of pulverized 
granite, volcanic ash and other materials of a similar origin. In the north- 
ern section, the soil, while possessing many of the characteristics of the 
former, bears evidence of being an immense lake bed, the soil being much 
richer in humus than in the other section. 
In the southern section, European plums, apples, pears and cherries of 
the Morello and Duke types, are found to be particularly successful in 
the order named. Other fruits are produced to a limited extent but, owing 
to climatic conditions, peaches, apricots and the sweet cherries are not so 
successfully grown, except in a few particularly favorable places. In the 
northern section there are two distinct fruit regions, the lower being the 
valleys of the Clearwater and Snake and their tributaries, where the altitude 
does not exceed 700 to 900 feet, in which pears, peaches, sweet cherries, 
;apricots and grapes are produced in the greatest perfection. To the north, 
