The enclosure to the foregoing letter reads as follows: 
I£EMORANDUM REGARDING MR. REIMIR'S WORK ON PEAR BLIGHT 
RESISTANT STOCKS AT TAIIENT, OREGON,. SEPT. 29. 1916. 
Without comment on the Oregon Branch Experiment Sta- 
tion at Talent, and without attempting to set forth in 
detail the admirable plan of the work there and the per- 
sonality of Mr. Reimer, who is in charge, we wish to put 
down a summary of the ohjects of the work, and what has 
heen accomplished to date. Incidentally, we may set 
forth a few of the things that would seem necessary to 
he done in the future. 
1. Pear growing is one of the important industries 
of the Pacific Coast. Next to citrus production, it per- 
haps ranks second in importance as a purely fruit industry. 
2. A numher of years ago pear blight appeared in the 
pear orchards of California, and it has gradually extended 
its ravages northward until it now reaches into practically 
all the important nearcoast fruit growing districts. 
3. The Rogue River Valley in Oregon has suffered 
severely from "blight for the past seven or eight years. It 
has already caused damage, amounting to several hundred 
thousand dollars, and the injury is growing. 
4. There are, according to Mr. Reimer, ahout 25,000 
trees in the Valley, (only 416 acres 30 x 30 ft.) of which 
ahout 15,000 are pears. (250 acres only.) 
December 31, 1916. 
