SECRETARY S CORNER. 3I9 



Have You Ever Exhibited Fruit at the State Fair? — If not this 

 will be a good year to begin. You will not only receive some recompense for 

 your trouble, but you will enjoy the opportunity to display your fruit alongside 

 of that of other growers, and also meeting them. Most of the exhibitors, 

 and especially the larger ones, spend the greater part of the week at the fair, 

 and the opportunity to talk with them on this subject will be a very valuable 

 one. If you are not able to attend the fair personally, and are willing to dis- 

 play your fruit there, please write to Secretary Latham in regard to it in good 

 season. State fair premium lists can be had upon application to E. W. Ran- 

 dall, Secretary, Hamline, Minn. 



Absence of THE Secretary. — Callers at the office of this society during 

 the last three weeks in July, up to July 29th, were disappointed to find the 

 office closed. The secretary has been enjoying himself amongst the hills of 

 New England in the scenes of his early life, not revisited before in forty-two 

 years. He was glad to be able to go and not unhappy to be back again to greet 

 the friends and workers at home. The office will be found open now as usual, 

 and especially in the forenoons it is the purpose of the secretary to be on hand 

 except in some unavoidable cases. The rule is — usually in afternoons; 

 always in forenoons, with necessary exceptions. Come in and see what is do- 

 ing — and remember that after all it is equally "your work" which is making 

 the society such a force for good in the our chosen field. 



Fruit For The Winter Meeting. — Arrangements for storing fruit for 

 preservation for this meeting have been made, as referred to in another note in 

 this "Corner." It is our ambition to make this exhibit the best of all, and to 

 this end we invite the help of all our membership. Premiums will be offered, 

 as before, for named varieties of fruits, and the members are urged to save good 

 specimens of any kinds they may have, and if they have not good facilities for 

 keeping them at home send them to the cold storage provided. Shipping tags 

 to be attached to packages for this purpose will be furnished by the secretary 

 in any quantity desired. A special effort is to be made to secure a large exhibit 

 of fall and winter seedling apples. The premium offered for them will be di- 

 vided pro rata as last year, so that any exhibitor of a fruit of some commercial 

 value will be sure of a share of the award. Don't fail to save specimens of any 

 good seedling apples in your possession. 



The Professorship of Horticulture in the University of Wiscon- 

 sin. — A successor to the lamented Prof. E. S. Goff in the Wisconsin Agricul- 

 tural College and Experiment Station has been found the person of Prof. E. P. 

 Sandsten. The horticulturists of Minnesota have a special welcome for the 

 newcomer from the fact that he is a graduate of the Minnesota School of Agri- 

 culture and also later from the full course in horticulture and forestry furnished 

 by our state university, having taken his degree in 1895. An experience of 

 some years in the management of the farm and garden at the Red Wing train- 

 ing school, and further study in his line in Colorado and at Cornell, have added 

 to his fitness to fill this position. Mr. Sandsten is a young man thirty-five years 

 of age, a native of Sweden, and is well versed in several modern languages. 

 We expect him to succeed in the difficult position he has taken, and extend to 

 him a hearty greeting and best wishes from the horticulturists of Minnesota. 



