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Minnesota State Agricultural Society. — This society is to hold its 

 annual meeting in St. Paul, Jan. 14-16. A program has been prepared. We 

 note that horticulture is to be represented in it by Prof. E. S. Goff, the 

 horticulturist at the Wisconsin State Experiment Station. 



Pres. Cooper will deliver his annual address the last day of the meeting, to 

 be followed by the election of officers. 



Old Members Who Have Not Renewed their subscription by paying 

 the annual membership fee for 1902 and are receiving this magazine are 

 requested to communicate promptly with the secretary, as the number of 

 magazines we are allowed to publish is too small to permit their sending out 

 except to those who are intending to renew their membership. But neither you 

 nor the society can afford to have you drop out ! 



Delegates to Other State Meetings. — At a recent meeting of the exe- 

 cutive board the following delegates were appointed: 



J. M. Underwood, Iowa State Hort. Socieiy, meeting at Des Moines, la., 

 December 10-13. 



Jonathan Freeman, Northeast Iowa Hort. Society, meeting at Rockford, 

 December 17-20. 



L. R. Moyer, S. D. State Hort. Society. Date and place unknown. 



Wyman Elliot, Wisconsin State Hort. Society, Madison, February 4-7. 



List of those Sending New Members in December: — 



Geo. W. Strand 1 D. M. Mitchell 4 



A. B. Lyman 4 P. McCulley 2 



Mrs. H. K. Eves 2 W.L.Parker 1 



O.W.Sawyer 1 J. T. Jerabek 1 



Henry Gerdsen 1 Mrs. Geo. Smith 1 



W. W. Pendergast 8 T. E. Cashman 6 



A.Terry 1 J.A.Brown 1 



H. L. F. Witte 1 Wm. Engelrup 2 



Ditus Day 1 M. Anderson 1 



A. K. Bush, Farmers' Institute. . . 14 Emil Bruess 1 



S. E. Allen 1 Wyman Elliot 1 



Program of the ninth annual meeting of the Southern Minnesota Horticul- 

 tural Society, to be held in the Armory, Spring Valley, Wednesday, Thurs- 

 day and Friday, January 15, 16, 17, 1902. 



Wednesday, 1:30 p. m. — A Comparison of Past and Future Interests of 

 Horticulture in Southern Minnesota, L. W. Allen, Spring Valley; Some of the 

 Benefits from our Horticultural Societies, State and Local, Mrs. Jonathan 

 Freeman, Austin; Membership in our Society and How to Obtain it, Mr. Guil- 

 ford, Dubuque, la Reports of delegates. 



Wednesday Evening Session, 7:30 p. m. — Address of Welcome, Mayor- 

 Spring Valley; Response, Jonathan Freeman, Austin; Road to Failure with the 

 Potato Crop of 1901, E. F. Peck, Riverview Farm, Austin; Lessons from the 

 Drouth of 1901, F. W. Kimball, Austin; The Garden of Eden, R. Parkhill, 

 Chatfiald; The Surroundings of a Country Home, Mrs. C. L. Hill, Albert Lea; 

 Select Reading, Jonathan Freeman, Austin; Paper, A. E Brent, Cresco, la. 



Opening Session, Thursday, 9: 30 a. m. — President's Address, J. C. Hawkins, 

 Austin; Plums, Jens Jensen, Rose Creek; Bees and Horticulture— Their 



