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480 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
AN ECONOMICAL MANAGEMENT.—Mr. Rolla Stubbs, of Bederwood, Secre- 
tary of the Lake Minnetonka Fruit Growers’ Association, writes that the asso- 
ciation handled this season $13,000 worth of fruits at an expense of 2 2-5 
Per cent for handling and every dollar collected in. This is a remarkable 
record and reflects great credit on the management. What similar association 
has done better? 
THE NEW HORTICULTURAL AND AGRICULTURAL BUILDING FOR THE STATE 
Farr.—What will you do to help along the project to construct a building 
on the fair grounds for the joint use of these two interests? It is badly needed 
and would illustrate grandly the work of these two important departments of 
rural life. Say a few quiet words to your representative in the legislature for 
the appropriation that must be made for its erection. 
THE WISCONSIN STATE HORTICULTURAL SociETy.—This association an- 
nounces its annual meeting at Oshkosh on Jan. 14-17, 1901. Prof. E. S. 
Goff, Horticulturist at the Wis. Agri. Exp. Station will represent that society 
at our annual meeting. Note his talk on “The Flower Buds of Our Fruit 
Trees’’ preliminary to Prof. Green’s address, on Wednesday evening. He has 
been making special investigations on this subject, and his conclusions should 
be both interesting and instructive. 
A Firty YEARS’ ABSENCE.—Our Mr. J. S. Harris, accompained by his wife, 
lately returned froma visit to the home of his boyhood at Seville, O., from 
which he has been absence fifty-one years. Aboriginal forests have dis- 
appeared and the orchards supplanting them grown gray and decrepit 
with old age in this long half century, till old land marks have practically dis- 
appeared. Notwithstanding the great improvements there, he says ‘‘But after 
all it is in many things very far behind our Minnesota, and I will be glad when 
I get home again,’’ which statement we are pleased to quote. 
How To PRODUCE THE $1,000 SEEDLING APPLE.—Your special attention 
is called to a carefully written article under the above title, published in this 
number, by Prof. N. E. Hansen, the well known horticulturist, now connected 
with the Agricultural Experiment Station at Brookings, S. D. Its general 
reading should give a stimulus to the fascinating work of growing apple seed- 
lings, which will be found most interesting even though the premium offered 
may in the end not beattained. There is reasonable ground for hope however, 
that intelligent efforts made along the various practical lines suggested will 
bring out results of value to every experimenter. Which of these lines will 
you follow? 
GREEN’S ‘‘VEGETABLE GARDENING” IN DEMAND AS A TEXT BOOK.— 
Prof. S. B. Green has much reason to be satisfied with the reception the class 
book he prepared for use in our agricultural college has received from similar 
schools in this country. The latest institution of this character to introduce it 
is the Baron de Hirsch Industrial School, in New Jersey. The growing use of 
this excellent work has heretofore been sp»ken of in these columns. Some 
schools are using two of Prof. Green’s works, and at least one, the Agricultural 
College at Ames, Ia., is using all three, those on Vegetable Growing, Fruit 
Growing and Forestry. A new edition of ‘‘Amateur Fruit Growing”’ has lately 
been put out with some newer matter in the form of an appendix. 
