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Show INSPECTOR OF FRUIT TREES County Horticultural Inspector R. N. Rasmussen has prepared a report for the state board of horticulture, on the horticultural interests of "Weber county, as follows. Pro'spcctive crop for the year 1912: Apples, 100 per cent: Plums -and prunes, 100. Apricots, ,60; pears, 100; peaches, 100; sweet cherries, S5; sour cherries, 100; blackberrios, 100; strawberries, grapes,, currants and gooseberries, 100. Amount of nursery stock, grown in tho county in the fall of 1911 and the spring of 1912- Peaches, 6,000 trees; pears, 10.000 grapes, 30,000, apples, 1,000,000; apricots, apri-cots, 5,000; cherries. 38.000; plums and prunes, 10,000 Nursery planting for tho spring of 1912: Apple grafts, 700,000, and buds 100,-000; 100,-000; sour cherries, 10,000; sweet cherries, 10,000; peaches, 50,000; apricots, apri-cots, 20,000; plums and prunes, 15,-000; 15,-000; pears, 5,000. Foreign seedlings Inspected for brown tall and Egyptian moth required re-quired six weeks' time of tho inspector, inspec-tor, individual examinations being made as follows: Cherries, 50.000; pears 75,000; miscellaneous mis-cellaneous shade and ornamental trees. 5,000 plums, 20,000, Apples, 1,-000.000. 1,-000.000. The total plantings in the spring of 1912 were- Peaches, 85,510; pears, C.000; apricots. 2,500, apples, 21,350; plums and prunes, ,1,030; grapes 30,-000: 30,-000: sweet cherries, 4.020; sour cherries'. cher-ries'. 1.C00., small fruits 120 acres. Percentage of new orchards planted, So, trees replacing dead ones 15, Amount of nurserj stock, not seedlings, seed-lings, Imported from other states. Peaches, 10.000, pears, 1,200. grapes. 20,000; apples. 2,000, apricots, apri-cots, 600; sweet cherries, 900; sour cherries, 375; plums and prunes, 200 Nursery stock, not seedlings, Imported Im-ported for nurserymen three cars apples. Number of orchard condemned for insects, .pest' and disease, 9,350. Xumbor of nursery trees condemned. condemn-ed. 20.000. General cqndltlon of stock at time of deliveries compared 1th other years, improved. Percentage of orchards winter sprayod, 94 |