FRUIT REPORTS. 
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NEVADA. 
by r. h. mcdowell, reno, chairman. 
1. Fruit Sections: The question of soils, varieties and fruit sections has 
not received much attention. 
Little damage has been done by insects, the most troublesome being the 
flat-head borer. All orchards need irrigation, for which the water is carried 
in ditches and furrows. 
The following varieties seem most promising: Apples — Pewaukee, Ben 
Davis, Baldwin, Green Sweet, Tolman, Wealthy, American Blush, Rhode 
Island Greening, Tompkins, King, Northern Spy and Fall Pippin. Pears — 
Wilder, Clapp Favorite, Vermont Beauty, Bartlett, Seckel, Angouleme, Idaho. 
Plums— Lombard, York State Prune. For a commercial orchard it does not 
pay to have more than five varieties, but these should be grown to perfection 
and the fruit must be picked and packed with great care and each package 
branded before it goes to market. 
NORTHEAST NEVADA. 
BY WILLIAM SMILEY, DEETH. 
1. Nearly all parts of the State are experimenting with fruit of different 
kinds. 
2. Our table and bench lands near the foot of the mountains, where the 
altitude is not too great. Fruit trees thrive best at from 3,000 to 5,000 feet. 
The average price of good orchard land with free water right, cultivated but 
not planted to trees, is from ten to thirty dollars per acre according to loca- 
tion. 
3. Red Astrachan, Oldenburg, Duchess of, Gravenstein, Fameuse, W'ealthy, 
Jonathan, Winesap, Gano and Arkansas (Black Twig)., 
4. All our orchards are cultivated. 
5. None are used. 
6. No fertilizers are used. 
7. Gano, Lawver and Utter. 
8. The only insect is a green louse which has appeared this year for the 
first time. This causes the leaves to wither and fall. 
9. Everything requires irrigation, the water being run in furrows along 
the rows. 
10. The orchards are too young to give an estimate of the income, but 
we have a home market for all the fruit that can be raised for some years to 
come. 
11. Very little attention is paid to evaporating fruit as there is a ready 
market for green fruit. 
12. There was little injury from the winter. 
