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Show August i, 1908. ') To the Honorable Board of County J Commissioners and the Secretary of the State Board of Horticulture. Gentlemen: j In the month of July the weather ' I has been very favorable for the fruit 'to grow and develop, but it has also I been very favorable icr all insects and diseases affecting fruits to breed and increase. Where orchard have been neglected, the insects and diseases arc now in full possession. The deputy inspectors have done their best to warn ana instruct people what to do and how to do and have worked little over half time making a total of ninety-two and a half days j work. The reports filed shows tha 630 orchards or-chards were visited this month, 178 vf which had been cultivated and fifty-three fifty-three sprayed the second, and some the third time. It shows also that where spraying and cultivation have ) been done the fruit is in excellent i condition. ! Six hundred and thirty pear trees I have been trimmed back on account I of "pear blight; four hundred and ten I trees- have been cut dowm; one hun- I drcd' and seventy trees have been con- I demned to be cut down; eighteen 1 hundred trees have been found affect- I cd by new pear blight, and one hun dred and fifteen notices to cut out the blighted trees and clean up have been I served. I have visited in three of the districts dis-tricts and counseled with the deputies about the most necessary work and how best to carry t on to obtain the best results. But the most of my time has been gnven to inspection in the nurseries. There is now in the county, the smallest laising about ten thousand trees and the largest about half a million. Where such large quantities of ' trees arc growing, it takes the utmost care of both the proprietors and inspector in-spector to sec that they ore kept clean. But this must be said to the great credit of our nurserymen, that as their business has increased about three o. four fold the last five or six years, so have their diligence and zeal to keep their stock clean and true to name also to import the best and latest lat-est methods and machinery for planting, plant-ing, spraying, cultivating and digging, that the mairkcts afford. The consequences arc that Utah trees, especially Salt Lake County raised trees, arc equal to the best of California and Oregon trees, and far ahead of any ranscd in the Eastern States. This is. my report for July, 1908. . Respectfully, JOHN P. SORENSEN, |