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Show SALT LAKE COUNTY HORTICULTURAL HORTI-CULTURAL REPORT. To the Honorable Board of County Commissioners and the State Horticuultural Commission. Gentlemen: In the month of April the deputies worked a total of 60 days as follows: One, 14 days; one, 8; one, 5; one, 13; one, 14; and one 26 days. Three of the deputies were largcfy engaged helping me to inspect and fumigate nursery stock that was dug up and shipped from the nurseries; nurser-ies; also in inspecting and fumigating fumigat-ing about 60 shipments containing 58,000 trees coming from outside the State. These imported trees -came from nearly every state in the Union and came in all kinds of conditions, from good to very bad. The trees from the wesj Oregon, Washington, and California, averaged good. The trees from Alabama, Ohio, and Nebraska, Ne-braska, were very fair; from the other oth-er states, very poor; and from Kansas, Kan-sas, Oklahoma, and New York, very bad. There were alsb received this spring' about half a million seedlings to be planted to make trees of in the future. There were delivered about four hundred and, fifty thousand trees from our county nurseries this month, the most of which were sent out of the county and a large number out of the State. The deputies not engaged in inspecting in-specting nursery stock were looking after the pear blight, and informing apple raisers about the necessity of spraying as soon as the blossom falls, as all wormy or diseased fruit found on the market hereafter will be condemned con-demned and destroyed according to the requirements of the new Horticultural Horticul-tural Law. This is my report for the month of April, 1909. JOHN P. SORENSEN, Horticultural Inspector. |