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Show INSPECTOR JOHN S0RENS0N i MAKES MONTHLY REPORT i Horticultural Inspector John P. Sur-enson Sur-enson has submitted the following report re-port to tho Board of County Commissioners Commis-sioners for tho month of June: In the month of June It was cold and Blormy and we hnd a great deal of rainy weather and the deputy Inspectors worked only a little over half time, making a total of 9G days' work. 1 There were 634 orchards visited and Inspected. In-spected. Two hundred and ninety-eight were found to be cultivated and cleaned, 95 wero sprayed the second time, 4250 trees wero planted nnd noc reported before. be-fore. Two hundred and eighty-three trees wore found so diseased that they were condemned to bo cut down and burned. Eight thousand four hundred nnd twenty-live twenty-live trees, mostly peach trees, have had the excess fruit thinned out. Three hundred hun-dred and fifty-one pear trees were found nffected with blight, and .most of them will have lo be cut down and burned, nnd notice was served to this effect. One thousand two hundred and sixty-three trees condemned In May have been cut down and most of them burned. I have visited nnd counseled with some of the deputies about different work In their districts. Also have had to report one enso to the County Attorney and the Sheriff for their action. I have also, as tho law requires, given tho first summer Inspection to a large portion of the young nursery trees now being raised In the nurseries and found them In a good, healthy condition, excepting ex-cepting a small patch of old left-over trees that were badly diseased and wore threatening the surrounding young stock. I reported this to the proprietors and they promised to cut It down at once and burn It. Another nursery was affected with the clack or cherry aphis. 1 advised with the owner and recommended him to uso a strong nicotine wash to clean them. |