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in this sport, who know how to appreciate it, and what we will miss 

 when the deer are all driven out of the State. I hope we may yet be able 

 to get together in the same camp and have one good hunt before bidding 

 one another adieu forever. I left home on the 9th of November and 

 went to my old hunting grounds in Oregon county, and we had one of the 

 best hunts we ever had. I killed the largest deer I ever saw, and got 

 the finest head of horns ever brought out of that county. Yours truly, 



J. C. Evans. 



Remarks — We do not suppose that the writer intended this letter for 

 publication, and we hope he will pardon us for the liberty we have taken 

 in publishing it. If there is any one man deserving the highest honors 

 the State Society can bestow, it is J. C. Evans. He has been with it in 

 good times and bad times. He has been its helping hand on all occasions. 

 For tvv'enty years, yes, we believe for thirty years, he was its efficient, 

 hard-working President. He and Mr. L. A. Goodman, the Society's 

 accomplished Secretary, have given it the highest standing throughout 

 the entire country. They have made prominent the wonderful advantages 

 Missouri possesses as a fruit growing State. They and Hussman, Miller,. 

 Nelson, Murtfeldt and a host of other good men have in their time done 

 work of inestimable value to Missouri. 



— Caiman's Rural World. 



HONOR TO NORMAN J. COLMAN. 



The following official letter has been received from the Secretary of 

 the Missouri State Horticultural Society: 



Hon. Norman J. Colman, St. Louis, Mo. : 



My Dear Mr. Colman— It is with the greatest pleasure that I notify 

 you officially, as Secretary of the Missouri State Horticultural Society, 

 of some of the good things said and done at our last State meeting at 

 Neosho, Mo., December 20-22, 1904, relative to yourself. 



A resolution was passed unanimously, creating the office of Honorary 

 Vice-president for life, and electing you to this position. This was done 

 as a slight recognition of your valuable services in promoting the cause 

 of Horticulture in this wState, and in the United States in general. 



First, as one of the organizers of the Missouri State Horticultural 

 Society in 1859, when fruit growing was in its infancy. 



Second, as President for many years of the State Horticultural 

 Society, you have been one of the most prominent promoters and de- 

 velopers of the fruit interests of Missouri. 



Third, as editor and publisher of Colman's Rural World, for more- 



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