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wealthiest organization of the kind in the world, has never received 

 any aid through state legislation. Its annual gratuities in the way of 

 premiums have been large, and its influence upon the progress of hor- 

 ticulture iu this country has been greater than that of any other 

 society. The Massachusetts board of agriculture, organized under 

 state law and well supported by annual appropriations, has given hor- 

 ticultural matters their full share of attention. The state gives a 

 bounty not to exceed 1600 per annum, to societies in the interests of 

 agriculture. The following enactment exempting property of socie- 

 ties organized in the interests of horticulture from taxation, was 

 passed in 1884: Such portions of real estate and public buildings be- 

 longing to incorporated horticultural societies as are used for their 

 offices, libraries and exhibitions, shall be exempt from taxation. 



In Michigan a liberal provision is made for the printing and 

 distribution of the annual reports of the state horticultural 

 society. The following is the text of the section under which the 

 reports are printed and distributed : The secretary of the state horti- 

 cultural society shall make a report annually, similar in character to 

 that of the secretary of the state board of agriculture, but covering 

 the subject of horticulture; eight thousand four hundred copies of 

 said report to be printed and bound in like manner as the report of 

 the secretary of the state board of agriculture. Six thousand copies 

 shall be placed at the disposal of the state horticultural society, which 

 shall be distributed in like manner as the report of the secretary of 

 the state board of agriculture, giving preference to horticultural and 

 pomological societies and fruit growers, wherever such may exist 

 within the state, and the remaining copies shall be disposed of in the 

 same manner as the joint documents. 



MINNESOTA. 



In 1877 the legislature provided a penalty for trespassing by hunt- 

 ers with dogs. There was also a law enacted for punishing those 

 who willfully entered upon premises and injured trees or growing 

 crops. 



In 1873 the legislature provided for the printing of a limited 

 number of the transactions of the state horticultural society annually 

 and in 1881 the law was amended so as to appropriate a sum not ex- 

 ceeding $750 annually for the publication of the state horticultural 

 report, and $1,000 for incidental expenses of the state horticultural 

 society. Under the provisions of this act 5,000 copies of the report 



of the society were authorized, 1,000 of which number were to be 



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