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Show CROP REPORT IS MADE BY INSPECTOR C. J. Sorensen, District Agricultural Agri-cultural Inspector, Issues Report to Commissioners. The qaurterly report of the activities ac-tivities of the office of the district agricultural inspector has been made to tha Utah county commis-8ion commis-8ion by C. J. Sorenson, district inspector in-spector and his assistant, Helge V. Swenson of Pleasant Grove. The report shows careful and systematic sys-tematic Inspection of all commercial fruit orchards in the county, many of which are infested with one or more pests. Orchard Inspection. During the first quarter of the year 1924, the time oft he district agricultural Inspector and assistant has been devoted, in the main, to the inspection of orchards and nursery nur-sery Btock. Orchards in all districts of the county have been inspected and in those districts where fruit growing is of importance, all of the orchards have been inspected. The primary purpose of these inspections in-spections was to determine the extent ex-tent of spread and the degree of infestation in-festation of the fruit tree leaf roller. This insect made its first appearance appear-ance in three sections of Utah county coun-ty in 1922. During that season, some orchards were completely defoliated de-foliated and as much as 90 per cent of the fruit in these particular orchards or-chards were rendered unmarketable. The orchards of 759 growers, involving in-volving a total of 5,009 acres, have been inspected. In all cases where is was possible to do so, the owner has be n invited to accompany the inspec while making the orchard inspee' fa in order that the grower might given aid in the identification identifi-cation t any pests with which he might h 't be familiar. In cases where the owner was not met nt the time his orchard was inspected and if any serious infestation was found in it, the owner was advised by letter let-ter concerning the infestation . As a result of these investigations, it has been found that the leaf-roller has spread to practically all apple orchards in the county with the single exception of the Elberta district. dis-trict. In this district no evidence of leaf-roller infestation could be found. Several small orchards- in various parts of the county were found to be heavily infested with the San Jose scale and these constituted a serious menace to neighboring orchards. orch-ards. Wherever there was any doubt in the mind of the inspector concerning the integrity of the owner, a legal notice to "remove pests" was served upon him. Thirty-seven such notices have been; served. In consequence, most owners have complied with the requests by either pulling out, cutting cut-ting down or spraying the infested trees. Up to March 31, 12G old diseased dis-eased and infested trees have been destroyed. Most of the work just referred to has been done in districts outside of the cities and towns. However, some condemnation of fruit trees (and shade trees) has been done within city and town districts. Much more could be done in these town districts because there is a great amount of contagious infestation infesta-tion in most of them. Nursery Stock. During the three months covered by this report, 43,310 trees and shrubs have been inspected out of which 496 have been condemned. Grading and Standardization. Government grades have been established, at the request of shippers, ship-pers, on a total of eleven cars of produce as follows : two cars of apples, ap-ples, one car of onions and eight cars of potatoes. Quarantines. Twelve cars of produce loaded for shipments into states which contain con-tain quarantines against Utah, have been inspected. Eight cars of this produce did not meet the quarantine regulations of the state to which the car was to have been consigned. Affidavits have been prepared for 29 shipments of household goods consigned to states maintaining quarantine regulations against Utah. Thirty-seven truck loads of fruit in transit to out-of-the-county markets mar-kets have been inspected with thirteen thir-teen condemnations. Rodent Control. For the control of ground squirrels, squir-rels, pocket gophers, field mice and tnElish sparrows, 1040 pounds of Poisoned baits have been prepared and distributed to farmers at less than cost. This was made possible ',v the state department of agriculture agricul-ture furnishing an allotment of strychnine gratis to the county to be "sod in the preparation of baits, thirty-seven farmers hnve used J"mc baits in treating 445 acres of infested laud. Seeds and Insecticides. seventeen retail distributors of mls have been visited and five found not complying with the "ite seed law; One carload of seed Potatoes from Idaho has been inspected. in-spected. Nine tests of lime-sulpher, con-jratrate con-jratrate and dilute solutions, have "n made during (he quarter. liventy-nine demonstrations in tuning, spraying, bait mixing and farmers 'mVC ben e'V" l 278 |
