Secretary's (®ori)er. 



Membership Aug. 4Th. — Annual members, 199,3; life members, 171; 

 total, 2164. 



Premiums for Canned Plums.— The attention of our members is again 

 called to the five valuable premiums oflFered to exhibitors of canned Minne- 

 sota plums, the exhibit to be accompanied by the recipe for canning same, 

 to be made at the next winter meeting of the society Full details as to this 

 special feature of exhibit at the meeting are to be found on page 240 of the 

 June issue of this magazine. Please refer at once back to this and read again 

 the particulars as to this offer. We hope to secure a number of valuable 

 recipes thereby, and competition is open as usual to any one in the state. 



Canning Factory at Long Lake. — A company has. been organized 

 amongst the fruit growers connected with the Lake Minnetonka Fruit Grow- 

 ers' Association, and a canning factory built at that place, which is now in 

 successful operation. Such an outlet for surplus fruits has been found indis- 

 pensable in connection with the successful operation of any large fruH grow- 

 ers' association. It takes care of the surplus crop at a reasonable price, 

 when it might otherwise be, in many cases, an almost total loss to the growers. 

 We shall watch the operation of this new business enterprise, it being near 

 U9 here, with interest and expect to hear of its proving a valuable accessory to 

 the large fruit growing industry now developing on the north shore of Lake 

 Minnetonka. 



Fruit Exhibit at the Coming State Fair, — What are you planning 

 to exhibit at that time? There will be room for four or five thousand plates 

 of fruit, and we rely on the fidelity of our members in the work of the horti- 

 cultural society to see that every inch of the space is taken. A satisfactory 

 premium list and the pleasure as well as profit growing out of competition 

 there, ought to make it easy this year, as it has been in the past, to keep up 

 to the maximum our fruit display. As superintendent in charge of the fruit 

 display, the secretary is especially interested that this should be so and 

 would like to hear from any who are contemplating exhibiting at that time 

 and especially if they have not heretofore exhibited fruit at the state fair. 



|ioo FOR a Plum Seedling. — On page 280 of the last annual report of 

 this society, that for 1905, will be found the offer made by Mr. Chas. M. 

 Loring, of Minneapolis, of $100 for a new seedling plum and the conditions 

 pertaining thereto. Only one entry was made for this premium last year, but 

 it is hoped that this early notice will bring out a number of entries and that some 

 one of them will succeed in capturing the $100. The prize has not been hung 

 so high as to be out of the reach of some extra good seedling, that may 

 be even now growing and fruiting in Minnesota. Competition is not confined 

 to Minnesota by these conditions, but the tree producing the fruit "must be 

 hardy in Minnesota," Entries for this premium should be made with the 

 secretary, and directions will be sent by him as to where the fruit is to go for 

 testing, or if the time is too short for correspondence it may be sent at once 

 to the secretary. Who is to take this prize? 



