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The seemingly large expenditure for printing was made in response to an urgent demand. The bulletins and report of the Board being the first horticultural publication for distribution made in the State, were much sought and widely distributed abroad and at home. The ten thousand copies of the report printed by the Board, at its own expense, and in the city of Portland, will not more than suffice to meet this demand. The bulletins compiled from the Departments of Horticulture at Washington and the experimental stations of the different States have been in great request, and distributed, as we believe, with very satisfactory results to the fruit-growers. The Board realize that a most important branch of its work is in this line, and that a wide distribution of a reliable literature on the growing fruit industry of Oregon would be of incalculable benefit in developing a great fruit industry commensurate with the fruit-growing capacity of the State. numerous inquiries from abroad and the voluminous correspondence of our Secretary and the members of the Board, is evidence of a growing interest in this direction. The daily call for facts and figures and reliable information; the coming of fruit-growers with advanced ideas; the purchase of large bodies of fruit lands by individuals and companies, and the setting of large commercial orchards over the State, all bespeak the importance and continued prosperity of this great industry. Thousands of acres are being set to the apple, pear, cherry, prune, peach, and other fruit suitable to our soil and climate, and we now estimate one hundred thousand acres set to these fruits rapidly increasing in area, which must soon bring in a large revenue. This, in a country unrivaled for the growth and perfection of these fruits, promises much for the future. And yet we may say that so far as to our capacities, commercially considered, we are only in the beginning.

In this connection, it is pertinent to note that in transportation facilities we have four transcontinental railroads, the great Columbia River, and the ocean highways; and, may we not say, prospects of the Nicaragua Canal in the near future. Thus fortunately situ

ated, we shall be enabled to ship cheaply our green, dried, and canned fruits to the markets of the world.

In these respects we are exceptionally favorably situated, and may successfully compete in the markets. The possibilities of this trade grow upon us in magnitude, and are beyond calculation. Our California neighbors are alive to the situation, and are preparing to reap a golden harvest. In the fruit products adapted to our soil and latitude we need not take a second place. Our fruit output in the near future ought to rival all others. Is it for us to neglect our opportunities?

In view of the importance of some representation of our fruit interest at the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago, we repectfully ask that ten thousand copies of this, the "Second Biennial Report of the State Board of Horticulture for Oregon," be placed at our disposal for distribution at that Exposition, and ten thousand copies for home distribution, making in all twenty thousand copies, which we estimate should be distributed.

We refer your honorable bodies for further information as to the work of this Board to the reports of the Commissioners for their respective districts, the Commissioner-at-Large, and to the reports of the Secretary, Treasurer, and Inspector of Fruit Pests.

Respectfully submitted,

E. W. ALLEN, Secretary.

J. R. CARDWELL, President Board Horticulture.

PROPOSED LAWS.

An Act to Define Certain Powers and duties of the State Board of Horticulture; to Amend an Act entitled "An Act to Create a State Board of Horticulture, and to Appropriate money Therefor," Approved February 25, 1889.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Oregon:

Section 1. The State Board of Horticulture may, as it shall require, select and appoint by a commission, which shall be issued by said Board, any competent person or persons especially qualified by practical experience in horticulture and entomology, who shall be known as "Inspector of Fruit Pests," and who shall hold office at the will of the Board. The duties and compensation for services of an Inspector of Fruit Pests shall be provided for by said Board in conformity to their own powers, and subject to the laws hereinafter enacted. Such Inspector of Fruit Pests shall keep a full and com

plete record of all his transactions, receipts and disbursements as such officer, and report the same to said Board at its regular semiannual meetings, and at such other times as it shall require.

Section 2. For the purpose of disseminating knowledge concerning contagious diseases affecting fruit and trees, plants, vegetables and vines, and the remedies, preventives, and disinfectants applicable thereto, it shall be the duty of the State Board of Horticulture, from time to time, as it may deem necessary, to publish in printed form such information, remedies, preventives, and disinfectants as it may approve, which shall be circulated by the Board among the fruit-growers, fruit-dealers, shippers, transportation companies, and agents within the State.

Section 3. It shall be the duty of the State Board of Horticulture, whenever it shall deem it necessary, to make or cause an inspection to be made of any orchard, nursery, trees, plants, shrubs, vegetables, vines, or fruits, or any fruit-packing house, storeroom, salesroom, or any other place or articles within the State; and if found infected with any pests injurious to fruit, plants, vegetables, trees, or vines, or with their eggs or larvæ, they shall notify the owner or owners, or the person or persons in charge or in possession of said places, orchards, nurseries, trees, plants, vegetables, vines, fruit, or articles, as aforesaid, that the same are infected with said pests, or any of them, or their eggs or larvæ; and they shall require such person or persons to eradicate or destroy the said insects or other pests, or their eggs or larvæ, within a certain time, to be specified. Said notices may be served upon the person or persons, or either of them, owning or having charge or having possession of such infected place, or orchard, nursery, trees, plants, vegetables, vines, fruit, or articles as aforesaid, by a member of the State Board of Horticulture, or an Inspector of Fruit Pests, or they may be served in the same manner as a summons in a civil action. Any and all such places, orchards, nurseries, trees, plants, shrubs, vegetables, vines, fruits, or articles thus infected are hereby adjudged and declared to be a public nuisance; and whenever any such nuisance shall exist at any place within the State, or on the property of any non-resident, or on any property the owner or owners of which cannot be found within the State after diligent search, or any property where notice has been served as aforesaid, and where the owner or those in possession shall refuse or neglect to abate the same within the time specified, it shall be the duty of any member or members of the State Board of Horticulture to cause said nuisance to be at once abated by eradicating or destroying said pests or their eggs or larvæ. The expense thereof shall be a county charge, and the County Court of the county wherein such property is found shall

allow and pay the same out of the General Fund of the county, when presented with the proper vouchers and a sworn statement thereof, by such Commissioner or Commissioners; and any and all sums so paid shall be and become a lien on the property and premises from which said nuisance has been abated, in pursuance of this Act, and may be recovered by a suit against such property and premises; which suit to foreclose all such liens shall be brought in the proper court by the District Attorney of such county, in the name of and for the benefit of said county; and in case the property is sold, enough of the proceeds shall be paid into the county treasury to satisfy the liens and costs, and the overplus, if any there be, shall be paid to the owner of the property, if he be known, and if not into the court for his use when ascertained. The State Board of Horticulture or any member thereof is hereby vested with power to cause any and all such nuisances to be at once abated in a summary manner; and the members of said Board, and Inspectors of Fruit Pests commissioned by said Board, shall have full authority to enter into any orchard, nursery, place or places where trees or plants are kept or offered for sale or otherwise, or any house, storeroom, salesroom, depot, or any other such place within the State, to inspect the same or any part thereof.

Section 4. That the State Board of Horticulture or any member thereof be and the same are hereby vested with all necessary power te enforce quarantine against any infected orchard, nursery, trees, plants, shrubs, vegetables, vines, fruits, or any place or articles within the State, when the same are liable to spread contagious diseases injurious to fruit or trees of any kind within the State, and to provide necessary rules and regulations to govern the same.

Section 5. The members of the State Board of Horticulture, and the Inspectors of Fruit Pests commissioned by said Board, shall receive compensation for their services, when actually engaged in the duties of their offices, a sum not to exceed five dollars per day, and their actual traveling expenses shall be allowed when so engaged; and whenever it shall become necessary for any of the Board to abate a nuisance as provided for by this act, compensation for their time and traveling expenses while so employed shall be paid as a part of the county charge provided for in section 3 of this act.

Section 6. That section 13 of an act entitled "An Act to Create a State Board of Horticulture, and to appropriate money therefor," approved February 25, 1889, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:

Sec. 13. There is hereby appropriated for the use of the State Board of Horticulture, out of the moneys in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $6,000 for the year commencing

January 1, 1893, and $6,000 for each succeeding year thereafter; and the Secretary of State shall draw his warrant upon the State Treasurer in favor of the Treasurer of said Board for said sums or any part thereof when they have become available, upon proper demand being made for the same.

Section 7. That sections 6, 7, 8 and 10 of said act be and the same are hereby repealed.

Section 8. This act shall take effect from and after its approval by the Governor.

An Act to Prevent the Sale, Gift, Distribution, Planting, and Transportation of Infected Fruit, or Trees, Plants, Cuttings, Grafts, Buds, Cions, or Other Material, and to Prescribe Penalties Therefor.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Oregon:

Section 1. All peach, nectarine, apricot, plum, prune, almond, or other trees, budded or grafted upon peach or other stocks or roots, and all peach or other pits, cuttings, buds, or cions, raised or grown in a district where the Peach Yellows or the Peach Rosette are known to exist, and all fruits grown thereon, are hereby prohibited from being offered for sale, gift, distribution, transportation, or planting within the State of Oregon; and any person or persons, dealers, shippers, transportation companies, and agents thereof who shall be in possession of any such property for any purpose, shall, when required by any member of the State Board of Horticuiture or an Inspector of Fruit Pests, burn the same without delay.

Section 2. Fruit of any kind, all trees, plants, cuttings, grafts, buds, seeds, pits, cions, or other transportable material of any kind, grown in any foreign country, or in any of the United States or Territories, or in the State of Oregon, infected by any insect or insects, or their germs, or by any fungi, blight, or other diseases known to be injurious to fruit or fruit trees, or to other trees, and liable to spread contagion, is hereby prohibited from being offered for sale, gift, distribution, planting, or transportation until the same shall be thoroughly disinfected in such manner as may be required by the State Board of Horticulture, and to the satisfaction of some member thereof, or of an Inspector of Fruit Pests. And all consignees, agents, or any person who shall receive any fruit or trees, plants, cuttings, grafts, buds, seeds, pits, or scions, imported or brought into the State from any foreign country, or from any of the United States or Territories, are hereby required to notify, within twenty-four hours, the member of the State Board of Horticulture for the district within which the same may be received, or an Inspector of Fruit Pests, of the arrival thereof, and shall hold the same in quarantine at the