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Premiums for Canned Plums. — The society desires a number of 

 choice receipts for canning our native Minnesota plums, and to secure them 

 offers the following attractive premiums: 



Receipt for canning plums (not "preserves"), with sample pint canned by 

 such receipt, both to become the propert}- of the society, to be exhibited at 

 the next annual meeting of the societ3% December 4-7, 1906. Give name of 

 variety canned. 



Five premiums — |io.oo, $8.00, |6.oo. 14.00, $2.00. 



Summer Meeting at the Experiment Station. — Don't forget the 

 regular mid-summer meeting of the society, to be held at the State Experi- 

 ment Station, St. Anthony Park, Minn., as usual when strawberries are ripe. 

 There ma}' be expected strawberry exhibits from many points within at least 

 one hundred miles of the place of meeting, and as the premium list includes 

 every named variet}' there ought to be sufficient financial inducement in this 

 to insure a large display. Bring out your fruits and flowers even if you have 

 only a single variety to show and help out the display. Members attending 

 should note that tickets are required for themselves and friends participating 

 in the picnic dinner, for which each member present is expected to contribute 

 liberally in the usual way. 



State Fair Premium List. — The premium list for the Minnesota State 

 Fair the coming fall is ready for distribution, and if the reader has been an 

 exhibitor at the state fair or would like to be or is in any way interested in 

 in what is being done in the way of getting up a display there, he should 

 write at once to Sec'y E. W. Randall, Hamline, Minn., and ask him for a 

 cop}'. On page 83 of this premium list will be found the list of premiums 

 offered in the horticultural department, which includes fruits and flowers. 

 Not many changes have been made in this list since a year ago, but it will be 

 worth while to look it over carefully to know exactly what is offered, so that 

 the exhibitor may make entries for everything he can show. There will be 

 found a few changes in the list of varieties of apples in both the amateur and 

 professional departments, and the $75, to' be divided pro rata amongst the 

 exhibitors of collections of apples, in both the professional and amateur 

 classes, which was accidently omitted from the premium list last year, will be 

 found in its proper place again. This amount with an additional first prem- 

 ium of $10. and a second premium of $5. makes $go. to be divided among the 

 exhibitors of collections in each of these classes, which ought to draw out 

 many fine displays. The pro rata premium for collections of seedling apples 

 has been increased from $30. to I50., which fact should be noted by those who 

 can exhibit in this class. A few changes have also been made in the floral 

 department, the principal one of which is in providing that amateur cut 

 flowers shall be exhibited on Monday, also lot 202 of the professional cut 

 flowers, while the remainder of the professional flower exhibit, designs, 

 baskets, tables, etc., will be put in place on Thursday. Tables occupied by 

 the cut flower exhibit on Monday will thus be renewed and filled with fresh 

 flowers on Thursday, in this way maintaining a fresh display throughout. 

 Exhibitors in this department are requested to correspond with Sec'y 

 Latham, who has charge of it again this year as usual. 



