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Show m- REPORT OF SALT LAKE COUN-TY COUN-TY HORTICULTURAL INSPECTOR. Salt Lake City, Oct. 31, 1908. To the Hon. Board of County Commissioners Com-missioners of Salt Lake County and the Secretary of the State Board of 1 Horticulture. Gentlemen: In the first part of October the deputy 'inspectors and the inspector and some members and officials of-ficials of the County Horticulture Society, So-ciety, by the liberal assistance of the County Cimmissioncrs, made a display of fruit at the State Fair, showing what can be raised in Salt Lake County. Coun-ty. As a result the first prize -and a roIcI medal, for quality, quantity, -and-good display were secured. When we consider that the -judge was especially selected as one of the most capable .men from outside the State so as to be free from local lcan- ; ings, favoritisms, or prejudices, such I a- prize and award should be somc- 9 thing for fruit raisers of the County to be proud of. . , ; After the fair, one deputy was laid offand one was taken down sick, and two of them found more profitable employment at other work, so the statistical returns that y should have bocn collected arc not complete as no '! returns have been received from two. r districts. I The fall digging of trees has now commenced and it will require one 1 deputy to work south of Murray and one. at Holliday and Mill Creek to .'inspect the trees for root diseases as they are dug up. I shall have all I can do to inspect the importation of Nursery stock coming-in over the railroads rail-roads (the first lot of trees from the Cast was reported yesterday for inspection) in-spection) and to attend to the inspection in-spection of the trees of the four nurseries nur-series in the vicinity of this city dur-t dur-t ing the digging season. Very cspectfully submitted as my report for thS-month of October, 1908. JOHN P. SORENSEN, Horticultural InsncctSrT |