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Show SALT LAKE COUNTY HORTICULTURAL HORTI-CULTURAL REPORT. Salt Lake City, Utah, Sept. 1, '08. To the Honorable Board of County Commissioners, and the Secretary of the State Board of Horticulture, Gentlemen.: In the month of August the Deputy Inspectors1 worked half time, making 89 days vork. There were 721 orchards visittfd, and pear blight found in 177 of them, and instructions in-structions how to treat said blight was given. 810 peat trees were trimmed back for blight and 234 trees cut down by the root, and the blight is nearly under control in most of the districts. There were 126 notices served, which were- only done in most aggravated cases, and there arc 310 trees condemned to be cut (town hereafter and burned. Some 60 orchards were sprayed. Fifty per cent of the orchards were found cultivated and fairly clean. I have bem out with deputies part of th time and also directed and assisted assist-ed nurs-cry men to cut some 40,000 bud's of choice trees for propogation and the improvement of their stock, all of which is respectfully submitted , as my report for the month of August, Aug-ust, 1908. Rebpectfully, JOHN P. SORFNSEN, Horticultural Inspector. |
