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Premium Books for Getting New Members.— There are six works 

 on horticulture, of practical value in the northwest, offered to our members 

 this year for securing new members. Four of them are the work of Prof. S. 

 B. Green, the fifth the new Horticultural Manual, recently issued by Prof. J. 

 L. Budd, with the assistance of Prof, N. E. Hansen, and the other is the work 

 of the late Prof. E. S. Goff. These books are described in the little society 

 folder to which we call your attention. Each member ought to secure for 

 himself one or more of these books this year and at the same time help the 

 society. 



M1NNEAP01.1S Journal and Horticulture. — The Minneapolis Journal 

 has a plan on foot which if carried out as proposed will do very much towards 

 reaching the pe )ple with some facts in regard to the planting and care of fruit 

 trees in Minnesota that ought to be more generally known. This plan pro- 

 vides for the printing regularly, and probably weekly, of such practical articles 

 on the subject of Minnesota fruit growing as can be obtained from reliable 

 growers in the northwest. The success of this scheme depends in a measure 

 upon the support as an advertising medium that this proposed department may 

 may receive from nurserymen, fruit growers and others engaged in horticul- 

 tural pursuits in the Northwest. The probabilities of good in this scheme de- 

 pend upon the ability and disposition of those who have it in hand in carry- 

 ing it out. We wish it success. 



Protection of Song Birds. — The attention of our readers is called to 

 some resolutions in this number looking to greater protection of song birds. 

 The committee that was appointed in connection with the adoption of these 

 resolutions has arranged to appear before the State Educational Association, 

 which meets in St. Paul, December 28 to 31, and Mrs. J. B. Hudson, of Lake 

 City, the chairman of the committee, will present the subject to the associa- 

 tion and for this purpose has secured a place upon the program. In the way 

 of getting information as to what has been done, if anythirg, as lo 

 teaching the young children in the public schools to protect the song birds, 

 a letter has been sent to each county superintendent in the state, and we hope 

 to secure some valuable information from these officers. The report of this 

 committee will probably be published in the February Horticulturist. 



Send in a New Member in January. — Have you already sent in the 

 name of some person as a new member of the society for the year 1904? If 

 not, please take this matter up promptly, with the purpose of sending in the 

 name of at least one member during the month of January. According to a 

 tacit understanding with our members, when the report for 1903 comes to 

 hand the magazines received in 1903 are to be distributed, and this distribu- 

 tion furnishes the best kind of an opportunity for securing a new member. 

 The little pink folder of the society, printed in large quantities, contains the 

 fruit list and the ornamental list and very full information about the society 

 and will be found very effective in securing new members. Take an evening 

 and talk horticulture to such of your neighbors as should be interested in this 

 subject. You will benefit them and yourself and the society. It is by this 

 personal work almost entirely the society is making its growth. We are 

 proud of the fact that the Minnesota society is the largest in the United States 

 and intend that it shall continue so. The new members you take will receive 

 the report of 1903, magazines in 1904 and two plant premiums, and you will 

 receive some one of the books offered as premiums for your efforts. 



