be unlawful to net or trap prairie chickens at any time, and any person or persons. violating the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined the sum of two dollars for each prairie hen or chicken so shot, trapped or netted.

SEC. 5. It shall be unlawful for any person to kill or injure, or pursue with intent to do so, any turtle-dove, meadow-lark, robin, mocking-bird, blue-bird, wren. sparrow, red-bird, peewee, martin, thrush, swallaw, oriole, yellow-hammer, or catbird, or to wantonly destroy or disturb the eggs or young of the birds protected by this act; and any person violating the provisions of this act or section shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in the sum of not less than one nor more than ten dollars.

SEC. 6. That it shall be unlawful for any person to net, trap, kill or injure, or to pursue with intent so to do, any woodcock between the first day of January and July of each year, or to net or trap at any time, or to kill any wild duck between the fifteenth day of April and the first day of September in each year; and any person violating the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in the sum of two dollars for each wild duck or woodcock so unlawfully trapped, netted or shot.

SEC. 7. It shall be unlawful for any person, for the purpose of hunting, to enter upon the lands or premises of another without permission of the owner thereof. That any person or persons who shall be guilty of hunting with a dog or dogs, or hunting or shooting with any kind of firearms in enclosed lands, without having first obtained the consent of the owner or occupant thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than. five, nor more than fifty dollars: Provided, That no prosecution shall be instituted under the provisions of this section except upon the consent of the owner of the land entered.

SEC. 8. It shall be unlawful for any person hunting upon the lands of another to carelessly or wantonly injure any cow, horse, hog, sheep, chicken, turkey, duck or other property, either real or personal, of such land-owner. Any person who shall violate the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction, be fined in any sum not less than the value of the property destroyed, or amount of the injury done, not more than double the value of the destroyed or amount of the injury done: Provided, That no prosecution for the violation of the provisions of this section shall be instituted except upon the express consent of such land or property owner first obtained.

SEC. 9. It shall be unlawful to sell, keep or expose for sale or have possession of any quail or pheasant between the fifth day of January and the first day of November in any year; and it shall be unlawful to sell, keep, expose for sale, or have possession of any prairie chicken or grouse from the first day of February to the first day of September in each year; and it shall be unlawful to sell, keep, expose for sale, or have possession of any woodcock between the fifth day of January and the first day of July in each year; and it shall be unlawful to keep, sell, expose for sale, or have possession of any wild duck between the twentieth day of April and the first day of September in each year. Any person or persons violating the pro visions of this section shall be fined one dollar for each and every quail, pheasant, prairie chicken, woodcock or wild duck so unlawfully kept, sold, exposed to sale, or possessed.

SEC. 10. That it shall be unlawful for any agent or officer of any express company or railroad company, or any other person or persons, to receive or transport

any game, whether deer, quail, pheasant, woodcock, wild duck, or prairie chickens, which shall have been killed, taken or captured, or held in violation of the provisions of this act. Any agent, officer or other person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in the sum of ten dollars for each deer, buck, doe or fawn so received or transported, and the sum of two dollars for each quail, pheasant or prairie chicken. or wild duck, or woodcock so received or transported.

SEC, II. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to sell, expose to sale, or have possession of for the purpose of selling, any quail or pheasant, or prairie chicken or wild duck that has not been killed by shooting; and any person violating the provisions of this section shall be fined one dollar for each and every quail or pheasant, or prairie chicken or wild duck so sold, exposed to sale, or possessed for the purpose of selling.

SEC. 12. It shall be unlawful for any railroad company, express company or other common carrier, their officers, agents or servants, or any other person or per-sons, to transport, carry, or take beyond the limits of this State, or to receive for the purpose of transporting, carrying or taking beyond the limits of this State, any deer, buck, doe or fawn, any quail, pheasant, wild duck, grouse or prairie chicken or woodcock; and any such railroad company, express company or common carrier, their agents, officers or servants, or other person or persons, violating the provisions of this section, shall be fined in any sum not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense so committed. Prosecutions for any violations of this section may be had in any county where such game or birds shall have. been received for transportation, or into which they may come for the purpose of or during the course of such transportation; and the possession, by any railroad. company, express company, common carrier, or other person or persons, of any game or birds herein before in this section mentioned, labeled or marked for any points beyond the limits of this State, or which shall be shown by any way-bill, bill of lading or shipping book, to be intended for delivery at any place beyond the limits of the State, shall be prima facie evidence of a violation of the provis ions of this section.

SEC. 13. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with any of the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

AN ACT to prevent the manufacture and sale of commercial fertilizers, and providing penalties therefor. Approved March 29, 1879. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That commercial fertilizers sold or offered for sale in this State, shall have affixed to every barrel or parcel thereof a printed label, which shall specify the name of the manufacturer and seller, his place of business, and the constituent parts of said fertilizer, together with a statement of the percentage which each constituent part bears to the whole mass.

SEC. 2. Whoever shall manufacture, offer for sale, or sell commercial fertilizers, whether manufactured in this State or elsewhere, not labeled in accordance with the provisions of this act, or who shall affix labels not truly specifying the constituent parts of the fertilizer, shall be punished by a fine of fifty dollars for the first, and one hundred dollars for each subsequent offense.

AN ACT to Regulate the Running at Large of Domestic Animals. Approved May 31, 1852. Approved March 29, 1879.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That it shall be the duty of the Board of Commissioners of the different counties of the State, to direct, by an order entered on the order book of said Board of Commis. sioners, what kind of animals shall be allowed to pasture or run at large on the uninclosed lands, or public commons, within the bounds of any township in their respective counties: Provided, That they may also make an order, duly entered on the order book of said Board, allowing stock to run at large upon the public com. mons and uninclosed lands of certain portions of townships within their counties, when the said township is divided by a river or a railroad, providing that stock may run at large on one side of said river or railroad, and not on the other, in the same township.

SEC. 2. The Board of Commissioners of the different counties of this State shall specify in said order by name the kind of animals that shall run at large or pasture upon the inclosed land or public common within the different townships in the county, and also what particular class of the said kinds of animals, whether male or female, and of what age, shall be allowed to run at large.

SEC. 3. Whenever any animal shall be found running at large or pasturing upon any of the uninclosed lands or public commons of any township of any county in this State which shall not be specified in the order of the Board of Commissioners of said county, as in sections I and 2 of this act provided to have the right to so run at large or pasture thereon, any person being a resident of said township shall be authorized to take up and impound said animal in any private or public pound within said township.

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PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

Nineteenth Annual Meeting

HELD AT

DUBLIN, WAYNE COUNTY, INDIANA,

DECEMBER 16, 17, AND 18, 1879.

FIRST DAY.

MORNING SESSION.

The forenoon of the 16th day of December, 1879, will long be remembered by members of the Indiana Horticultural Society as a period of great interest. The nineteenth annual meeting began on that occasion in the Odd Fellows' Hall, in the village of Dublin, under most favorable auspices. There were present a large number of members, their wives, daughters, and visitors from abroad, while the citizens of Dublin gave every attention possible to the wants of the Society. The hall had been prepared with great taste and beauty, with mottoes, plants, pictures, fruit-tables, etc., and all were busy arranging an exhibition of fruits that would have done credit to a more bounteous harvest than fruit-growers enjoyed the past season. The preliminaries being completed, each member having enjoyed the opportunity of a personal greeting with his fellow member, the Society took an informal recess until 2 o'clock P. M. 2-HORT. Soc.

AFTERNOON SESSION.

At 2 o'clock P. M., President Johnson called the meeting to order, and, in obedience to the programme, proceeded as follows to read his

ANNUAL ADDRESS.

Fellow Members of the Indiana Horticultural Society:

It has become an established usage for the presiding officer of this Society to make a report at its annual meetings. Just what he shall report upon, or what the character of his report shall be, is not clearly established. Hence he is left somewhat at liberty to roam around the broad field of horticulture, and to gather up such specimens and present them as may be deemed "worthy of further trial." This is the nineteenth annual meeting of the Society, and it may seem to the casual observer that its accomplishments are not commensurate with the efforts and labors put forth. But to those who have closely and carefully observed the progress that has been made of cultivating fruits, in the increase in the number of varieties, and the increase in size, as well as the improvement in their productiveness and flavor, can not but be satisfied with the progress made. Amid these encouragements the active and intelligent horticulturist encounters one discouraging feature, and that is the ignorance of the masses on this subject, and what is still worse, their want of a desire to become enlightened. Before this ignorance is removed, the people must, in some way, become interested. Just how this end may be attained is a question worthy the earnest deliberation of our most enlightened horticulturists. With the view of accomplishing something in this direction, Secretary Ragan and I called upon all the members of the last Legislature and requested each to give us the names of a few persons in each county who would be likely to take interest enough in our transactions to read them, and to all such copies of those of 1878 were sent. A circular was also sent to them, asking the recipient to take note of his observations during the year, relating to horticultural subjects, report the same to this meeting, and to all such as made the report requested, were promised memberships without charge. It was hoped in this way to enlist many in the work who have heretofore stood aloof, more perhaps from not knowing what was being done than from a desire not to do anything. The result of this effort to effect an increased interest in our work will more fully appear during the progress of this meeting.

THE PAST YEAR

Last winter marked very

Has been one of peculiar interest to the horticulturist. low, if not the lowest, temperature ever noted in this latitude. This enabled the fruit grower to note what varieties of fruits were uninjured by this extreme cold weather, and what were partially injured or totally destroyed. And yet the test of an extremely low temperature is not an infallible one. The presence or absence of snow, or circumstances sometimes unknown, modify the effects of severe cold weather so that the same temperature does not always produce the same results. It is generally supposed that no peach buds escape with the mercury 15° below zero. But in Central Indiana, with the mercury as low as 24°, we found peach buds, in