Cfecretary's (^ori^er. 



The Program of the Annuai, Meeting. — Was mailed to all members 

 Nov. 15th. If a copy has failed to reach you, send to the secretary for 

 another. 



Are You Assigned to Dutv— At the annual meeting? It is then your 

 good fortune to help along the work in what promises to be the best meeting 

 the society has ever held. 



A Correction in the Premium List. — In the premium list for the 

 coming annual meeting, just issued, the premiums on varieties of grapes 

 should be changed to read, "First premium, 75c.; second premium, 50c." 



Are You a Grower of Fruits? — You cannot afford not to attend our 

 annual meeting. While you know many things about our art, every person 

 you meet there knows something you don't, of which knowledge it is your 

 privilege to become the possessor. You must also give something in return. 

 Come, and we will do you good. 



Our Program. — Is a feast of good things, but to get the good of it you 

 must come early and stay till the very end. You can afford to miss neither 

 the first session nor the last. Will you be on hand when the meeting opens at 

 9:30 o'clock Tuesday morning? One hundred and forty were in attendance 

 at the opening session last year.* 



Are You a Minnesota Nurseryman ? — As a matter of business you can- 

 not afford to stay away from our annual meeting. You have much of the 

 practical knowledge that the planters of the state need, and this is the oppor- 

 tunity to "give it off"— and you are sure to get some good in return as well as 

 a great fund of pleasure out of fraternal association. Come! 



Apples Abroad. — A contemporary says that apples are now selling in 

 Denmark for 13 cents per lb. at wholesale, but that American apples packed 

 in barrels, as they are, do not keep well and are not in favor in that market. 

 Russian apples are packed in large boxes in excelsior and will stand shipping 

 and storing a long time. American apples would sell there if packed in that 

 manner. 



Have You Ever Attended Our Annual Meeting?— Come this year and 

 see what is doing there. While it is true that the proceedings of the meeting 

 are published in our monthly throughout the year, there are yet a host of good 

 things, and really the very best of the gathering, that cannot ^be put into print. 

 The social element is a large factor in the association and in the great work it 

 is accomplishing. Come and "give and take" with us. 



Storing Wk.alThv Apples. — The writer lately received the following 

 letter from the Produce Refrigerating Co., where he had put into cold storage 

 a few barrels of Wealthy apples, and they are the ones referred to in Ihe letter: 



'Two barrels of apples, our lot No. 2254, and one barrel of apples, our lot 

 No. 2264, both in storage in your name, are poor keepers and have gone 

 down seriously. We have removed them from the room into the corridor and 

 wish you would kindly take them out as they will shortly be worthless." 



This does not necessarily mean that Wealthy apples cannot be kept in cold 

 storage, but it does mean that they will not keep as ordinarily handled. Here- 

 tofore the demand for Wealthy for immediate consumption has exceeded the 

 supply, and the growers have not found it necessary to store in waiting for a 

 profitable market. But the time will eventually come when it will have to be 

 done, and it is just as well to practice the necessary conditions a little before- 

 hand. A Wealthy to keep must be got into the barrel without a brtiise of any 



