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done by the individual growers. Get together in a trustful way and try it. 
Better prices and lessened expenses will be found the logical result. 
EXHIBIT FRUIT AT THE STATE FAIR.—There are a good many growers of 
fruit on a considerable scale in our state who have never as yet exhibited at the 
annual state fair. They would find it a great pleasure as well as profitable to 
do so, and this year will be a good time to make a start. More exhibitors are 
needed to take the place of those who grow weary with the work of years and 
long and faithful service. It is not difficult to exhibit at the fair and carry off 
premiums. A novice is apt to think he has no show alongside the exhibitor of 
many years’ experience. But your fruit is as good as any ones, and you can 
select and get it on the ground and in place as well with the right effort. You 
will find that other exhibitors are only nice, every-day sort of people like your- 
self and very willing the judges should divide the premiums with you, if you 
deserve them. New or probable exhibitors are invited to correspond with the 
secretary of this society who will be glad to give any information on the sub- 
ject in his power. 
THE APPLE AND PLUM Crop.—The correspondence of this office indicates 
that the prospects for the apple and plum crop is generally declining. The 
long continued drouth, subsequent rains and high winds have had their legiti- 
mate effect on trees in some cases already weakened in a mezasure by a partial 
winter-killing of surface roots. Orchards that have been well cultivated or 
mulched are now showing the beneficial effects of this wholesome treatment. 
There is still, however, plenty of fruit on the trees in most localities,and in some 
localities, notably inthe Lake Minnetonka region, the crop continues to give 
promise of being a record breaker. A favorable feature this season is the ab- 
sence of blight, bringing the old Transcendent orchards into unusual promi- 
nence. On the whole, it is likely that Minnesota will gather as much fruit 
this fall as can be sold to good advantage to growers in its season. 
CORRECTIONS.—There were two mistakes in the July number to which at- 
tention should be called. One isa ‘‘sin of omission,’’ and the other a “‘sin 
of commission.’’ The first is in leaving out the name of the author of the ar- 
ticle entitled ‘‘A Plea for Nature Study Drawn from Experience.’’ Mrs. M. 
M. Barnard, the Chairman of the Flower Committee of the Minneapolis Wom- 
an’s Improvement League, prepared this article at the special request of the 
secretary for presentation at the summer meeting. It is on a subject just now 
receiving much attention from those interested in the intellectual training of 
the young, and in this work Mrs. Barnard has been specially prominent in 
this section. This correction is being made contrary to’ her expressed wishes 
that it should be allowed to stand as printed, but in the interest of the cause it 
champions we believe that the author should be known. 
The second correction is in a famous quotation from Emerson which appears 
on the first page, which should read ‘‘the embattled farmers fired the shot 
heard round the world.’’ The blunder made had its origin somewhere be- 
tween the manuscript and the printers’ ink, just where is the mystery, but 
some one other than the author of the article in which it occurs is the guilty 
party. If ‘‘ye editor’ knew everything and.saw everything unerringly no mis- 
take of any kind could ever occur, but it often happens, as in these provoking 
cases, that other parties, often unknown in the numbers through whose hands 
the work passes, are also largely at fault. However, it is laid to the charge of 
no one in the concrete, and ‘‘we’’ assume it. 
