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Show o THE NEW HORTICULTURAL LAW. A bill passing the legislature last week can not fail to be of great interest in-terest to the horticultural people of the State. The bill dissolved the present State Board of Horticulture and creates a State Horticultural Commission consisting of the President Presi-dent of the Agricultrual College, the Director of the Experiment Station, the Horticulturist and Entimologist of the Experiment Station and a member who is to act as State Inspector In-spector and who is to be appointed by the Governor. The bill was drawn by Hon. B. II. Bower of Provo and received the support of the State Horticultural Society and evidently meets their wishes in the matter. We arc not sure that it is the best bill that could be devised. We have always 'believed that the people at the College should spend their time in investigation and teaching and not be encumbered with police duties. However, if the Governor signs the bill and it becomes a law it .can be given a trial and if it is not satisfactory satisfac-tory we arc confident that the College people will be among the first to move for its repeal. -o |