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only a lover of horticulture but practiced it extensively at her home place in 

 Hutchinson. No face was more regularly to be seen at our meetings for the 

 last twenty years than hers, and none will be more missed. 



G. M. Teachout, of Minneapolis, died at St. Augustine, Florida, Feb. 9th, 

 1905, at the age of seventy-six. Mr. Teachout was not engaged in any horti- 

 cultural pursuit, but felt a deep interest in the subject, and for a number of 

 years, in which he had been a member, he was a regular attendant at our 

 meetings and had made many acquaintances there who will regret to hear of 

 his death. 



H0RT1CUI.TURE AT THE Coming State Fair.— Supt. J. M. Underwood, of 

 the agricultural and horticultural departments at the coming state fair, is pro- 

 gressing well with his plans for the joint development of these two depart- 

 ments. The method has been decided upon for the rearrangement of the hall 

 and necessary preliminary steps taken. Mr. Wyman Elliot will occupy the 

 position of assistant superintendent in the agricultural department, and Mr. 

 Thomas Redpath will occupy the same place in relation to the horticultural 

 department. A few changes have been made in the premium list, in the main 

 the changes which were suggested last year but which the board failed to adopt. 

 The premium list is now in the press and will soon be ready for distribution. 

 It is hoped to make Agricultural Hall this year more attractive than it has 

 ever been before, and the fruit growers of the state are urged to do their share 

 in the bringing about of this result. The fair being held a week later than last 

 year, with an average season and the satisfactory fruit prospects, there ought 

 to be plenty of fine ripe fruit for the occasion. 



Our Bills in the State Legislature. — Our membership will be in- 

 terested to know that the two bills introduced into the state legislature, pro- 

 viding for an increase of the printing of the society and also of the annual ap- 

 propriation, passed the senate without opposition and are now in the hands of 

 the sub-appropriation committee of the house, where they will probably remain 

 until reported out as a part of the omnibus appropriation bill near the close of 

 the session. There is no apparent opposition, but a general inclination on the 

 part of the members of the legislature to grant the requests of the society, it 

 being apparently only a question of finances at their disposal. In asking for 

 the amounts we did, the figure was put as low as possible consistent with the 

 successful carrying on of the increasing work of the society, and these amounts 

 ought not to be cut down in the appropriation. That is probably the only 

 danger that threatens this legislation. It is not yet too late to address mem- 

 bers of the legislature on this subject, as they do not adjourn until the middle 

 of April, and every word received from our membership, urging the needs of 

 the society, will have a bearing on the final result. Members should still take 

 opportunity to write or speak to our legislators about these matters, which are 

 of such vital importance to the association. The amounts asked for, as here- 

 tofore noted, are $3,000 for the printing fund and the same amount for an- 

 nual appropriation for the society. 



