i6o secretary's corner. 



The Pending Legislation.— At tliis date, March 27th, as we are informed, 

 both the bills in the state legislature in which the society is especially inter- 

 ested, viz : those providing for the purchase and maintenance of a fruit breed- 

 ing farm and the founding and support of a school of forestry in Itasca State 

 Park, have passed the senate without opposition, at least one committee in 

 the house and are now in the hands of the house appropriations committee. 

 The appropriations called for in their connection are likely to be made in the 

 omnibus appropriation bill to be reported out near the close of the session. 

 There is still time to speak a word for these measures with our law makers. 



Success in Growing Seedlings. — A member at Devils Lake, N. D., Mr. 

 Will Truckenmiller, writes in this way of his success in growing apple seed- 

 lings from the packet of twenty-five seeds sent him a year ago. "I have nine- 

 teen fine little trees from the seed planted last year. Some of them are two 

 ft. high, sturdy and strong, with well ripened wood. It was the driest 

 summer and fall in many years, so the last of October I gave them a good 

 irrigation, and early in November bent them over and covered with dry soil, 

 and I hope they will come out all right in the spring." Mr. Truckenmiller's 

 experience with these little seedling trees is commended to such of our 

 readers as are growing seedlings or will make the efifort to do so this coming 

 spring. 



Luther Burbank on Minnesota Fruits. — The following extract will 

 have special interest to our readers in connection with the movement now 

 under way to establish a fruit breeding farm in our state. Under date of 

 Feb. 27th, ^Ir. S. P. Crosby writes, "Only a few weeks ago I had the pleasure 

 of visiting at his home and meeting Mr. Luther Burbank, at Santa Rosa, Cal. 

 At his fruit breeding farm I saw several varieties of the cactus from which 

 the thorns had been entirely removed and an edible fruit grown thereon; 

 plums without pits ; apples without seeds ; and he has knocked the scent out 

 of the onion without removing the flavor; besides many other wonderful 

 things as a result of fruit breeding. In talking with Mr. Burbank he re- 

 marked : 'Mr. Crosby, you can and are going to do in Minnesota in growing 

 fruit all we are doing in California, only it will take time to work it out.' So 

 much from the great authority who has well been termed the 'Western 

 Wizard"." 



Honor Roll for March. — The following members have sent in new 



memberships to the society since February 27, 1906, up to and including 



March 26. 



J. A. Campion, Faribault 2 M. L. Gjestrum, Mankato 1 



O. C. Chase, Fergus Falls 2 F. B. Millard, Willow River 1 



Swan Floreen, Constance 1 E. Bonde, Cottonwood X 



Ole Oredalen, Kenyon 1 L. A. Clemons. Storm Lake, la 1 



Rev. J. B. Katzner, Collegevil'e 1 Fred Welter, St. Charles 1 



Geo. W. Strand, Taylors F'alls 5 R. A. Schutz, Leroy, 



F. M. Crosby. Hastings 1 Farmer's Institute 163 



A. Brackett, Excelsior, L. L. Bredvold, Belview 1 



Farmers' Institute 96 F. E. Cutting, Byron 1 



Henry Flven, Dawson 1 Louis Anderson, Long Lake 1 



L. B' Arnold. Duluth '1 Clarence Wedge, Albert Lea 1 



C. W. Becker, Windom 1 Thos.. C. Jones, Russell 1 



H. A. Lien, Montevideo 2 J. F'. Wagner, Bennett, la 1 



Rev. Aug. Hillger, Boyd 1 C. H. Brady. Deerfield 1 



A. H. Reed, Glencoe 2 Mrs. Thos. McCarthy, Elkton, S. D. 1 



F. C. Winkley, Minneapolis 1 J. E. Dodds, Wheaton 1 



H. M. Rendahl, Cottonwood 1 F. J. Cooke. Roseau 1 



S. H. McAdams, Swea City. la 1 Otto Kankel. Fertile 1 



