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Form 4 TORO CO For: Nov 03 Filed by: HARLESS KATHERINE J

November 5, 2014 4:29 PM EST
FORM 4 UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP

Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940
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Check this box if no longer subject to Section 16. Form 4 or Form 5 obligations may continue. See Instruction 1(b).
1. Name and Address of Reporting Person *
HARLESS KATHERINE J

(Last) (First) (Middle)
8111 LYNDALE AVENUE SOUTH

(Street)
BLOOMINGTON MN 55420-1196

(City) (State) (Zip)
2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
TORO CO [ TTC ]
5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
(Check all applicable)
X Director 10% Owner
Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)
3. Date of Earliest Transaction (Month/Day/Year)
11/03/2014
4. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)
6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line)
X Form filed by One Reporting Person
Form filed by More than One Reporting Person
Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 3) 2. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year) 2A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year) 3. Transaction Code (Instr. 8) 4. Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed Of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) 5. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 3 and 4) 6. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4) 7. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
Code V Amount (A) or (D) Price
Common Stock Units 11/03/2014   A   835 (1) A $ 0 1,721.478 (2) D  
Common Stock               30,948 D  
Table II - Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
(e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 3) 2. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security 3. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year) 3A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year) 4. Transaction Code (Instr. 8) 5. Number of Derivative Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) 6. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year) 7. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 3 and 4) 8. Price of Derivative Security (Instr. 5) 9. Number of derivative Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 4) 10. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4) 11. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
Code V (A) (D) Date Exercisable Expiration Date Title Amount or Number of Shares
Non-Qualified Stock Option $ 61.72 11/03/2014   A   2,596 (3)     (4) 11/03/2024 Common Stock 0 (5) $ 0 2,596 D  
Explanation of Responses:
1. Annual common stock award for service as a non-employee director issued under The Toro Company 2010 Equity and Incentive Plan, as amended (the "2010 Plan"). The reporting person has deferred the payout of her stock award under The Toro Company Deferred Compensation Plan for Non-Employee Directors (the "Deferred Plan") and, accordingly, the reporting person's stock award is paid in common stock units under the Deferred Plan.
2. Includes 11.478 common stock units acquired by the reporting person under the dividend reinvestment feature of the Deferred Plan since the date of her last report.
3. Annual option grant for service as a non-employee director issued under the 2010 Plan.
4. The option vests in three equal annual installments commencing on the first anniversary of the date of grant.
5. The amount of underlying securities is 2,596.
/s/ Nancy A. McGrath, Attorney-In-Fact 11/05/2014
** Signature of Reporting Person Date
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Exhibit 24

LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY

Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes 
and appoints each of Timothy P. Dordell, Nancy A. McGrath and
Angela D. Snavely, signing singly, true and lawful attorneys-in-fact 
relative to the filings identified below in connection with the  
undersigned's derivative and non-derivative securities of The Toro 
Company (the ?Company?) to: 

(1)	Prepare and execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in
the undersigned?s capacity as a director of the Company, Forms 3, 4
and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange 
Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder 
(the ?Exchange Act?);

(2)	Prepare and execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, 
in the undersigned?s capacity as a director of the Company, any 
Form 144 in accordance with Rule 144 under the Securities Act of 
1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder (the 
?Securities Act?); 

(3)	Do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the 
undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and 
execute any such Forms 3, 4, 5 and 144 and the timely filing of 
such forms with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission 
and any stock exchange or similar authority; and 

(4)	Take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection 
with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, 
may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required 
by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed 
by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to 
this Limited Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall 
contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may 
approve in such attorney-in-fact?s discretion. 

The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full 
power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing 
whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise 
of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all 
intents and purposes as such attorney-in-fact might or could do if 
personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, 
hereby ratifying and confirming all that each such attorney-in-fact, 
or any substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be 
done by virtue of this Limited Power of Attorney and the rights and 
powers herein granted.  The undersigned acknowledges that the 
foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the 
request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company 
assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with 
the Securities Act and Exchange Act, including Section 16 of the 
Exchange Act and Rule 144 under the Securities Act.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Limited Power 
of Attorney to be executed effective as of the date indicated below, 
and said Power of Attorney shall remain in effect until revoked by 
the undersigned in writing, or at such time as the undersigned is 
no longer a director of the Company, whichever first occurs.


Signed:		/s/ Katherine J. Harless
		Katherine J. Harless

Dated:	11/11/2013



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