iNblAlSrA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



ORNITHOLOGY. 



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The interest manifested in tlie study of birds in recent years by the 

 general public has been universal as well as problematic, judging from 

 the number of Audubon Societies and similar organizations that are found 

 in this and other States, and the introduction of the study of ornithology 

 into schools and colleges. By the protection afforded through the influence 

 of these organizations and favorable legislation, many of our more com- 

 mon birds have .of late very materially increased in numbers. With this 

 increase, their depredations in tlie orchard and field have kept apace, 

 until the husbandmen have already, from the serious losses thus sus- 

 tained in fruits and grain, begun to question the advisability of further 

 protection. 



INDIANA HORTICULTURE AT THE ST. LOUIS WORLD'S FAIR. 



BY W. B. FLICK. 



The Legislature, at the session held in 1903, enacted a law appropriat- 

 ing one hundred and fifty thousand dollars (.?150,000) to bear the expense 

 for making a display of the State's resources at the Louisiana Purchase 

 Exposition, to be held at St. Louis, Mo., May 1 to December 1, 1904, and 

 providing for the appointment of a Board of Commissioners, one from 

 each Congressional District and two at large, to manage the same. New- 

 ton W. Gilbert, Fort Wayne; Henry W. Marshall, Lafayette; J. W. Cock- 

 rum, Oakland City; W. W. Wicks, Bloomington; W. W. Stevens, Salem; 

 W. H. O'Brien, Lawrenceburg; Crawford Fairbanks, Terre Haute; D. 

 W. Kinsey, New Castle; Nelson A. Gladding, Indianapolis; Frank C. Ball, 

 Muncie; C. C. Shirley, Kokomo; Fremont Goodwine, Williamsport; Joseph 

 B. Grass, Huntington; S. B. Fleming, Fort Wayne, and M. W. Mix, Misha- 

 waka, were named by Governor Durbiu to be the commissioners. At their 

 first meeting Newton W. Gilbert was elected President, H. W. Marshall, 

 Vice-President, and J. W. Cockrum, Secretary. Warder W. Stevens, Fre- 

 mont Goodwine and W. H. O'Brien were appointed a Committee on Agri- 

 culture, Horticulture and Live Stock, and to manage these displays. This 

 committee appointed a sub-committee entitled "Special Committee on Hor- 

 ticulture," composed of W. B. Flick, Lawrence; Sylvester Johnson, Irving- 

 ton, and J. C. Grossman. Wolcottville, to make and manage the State's 

 horticultural display at the World's Fair, and five thousand dollars ($5,000) 

 was sot apart for this purpose. The committee sent out circular letters 

 to farmers, fruit-gi'owers and horticulturists, soliciting exhibits and giving 

 details and directions how to select, pick, pack and ship fruit. It was 

 thought best and least expensive by the committee to store the fruit here 



