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Show SALT LAKE COUNTY HORTICULTURAL HORTI-CULTURAL REPORT. Salt Lake City, Utah, July i, '08. To the Honorable Board of County Commissioners and the Secretary of the State Board of Horticulture. Gentlemen: In the .month of June it was cold and stormy and wc had a great deal of rainy weather and the deputy inspectors in-spectors worked a little over half time, making a total of 96 days' work. There were 634 orchards visited and inspected, 298 were found to be cultivated cul-tivated and cleaned, 95 were sprayed the second time. 4,250 trees were planted and not reported before. ' 283 trees were found so diseased that they were condemned to be cut down an J burned. 8,425 trees, mostly peach trees, have had the 'excess fruit thinned out. 351 pear trees were found affected with blight and most of them Will have to be cut down and burned, and notice was served to this effect. 1,263 trees condemned in May have been cut down and most of them burned. I have visited and counseled with some of the deputies about different vwork in their districts, also have had t to report one case to the County Attorney At-torney and the Sheriff for their action.-I action.-I have also, as the law requires, given the first summer inspection to a large portion of the young nursery trees now being raised in the nurseries nur-series and found them in a good healthy heal-thy condition,, except n small patch of old left over trees that were badly diseased and were threatening the surrounding sur-rounding young stock. I reported this to the proprietors and they promised prom-ised to cut it down at once and burn !" Another nursery was affected with the black or cherry aphis. I advised with the owner and recommended him to use a strong nicotine wash to clean 1 tliem. This is my report for the month of June, iooS.'V JOHN P. SORENSEN, , |