ecretary's (^ori^er. 



Are your Entries Made? — Have you made your entries for the 

 state fair? Do not fail to do so in time to reach the secretary by 

 September 4th, at latest. 



Store your Fruit for Exhihition.— Remember to send to cold 

 storage for the state fair and annual meeting exhibits of any fruit 

 you cannot keep for those occasions in your own cellar. We want 

 the help of all our fruit growers. 



Bring Your Fruit to the Fair.— Your fruit will be needed in 

 making our extra large show this year. Many localities report a 

 very light crop and inability to exhibit, from devastation of cater- 

 pillars or frost. We want it stored for our annual meeting also. 



Reading Matter for the Asking.— Don't forget to send to this 

 office if you want something to read of a horticultural character. 

 There are always magazines, papers and reports for distribution on 

 hand for the membership. Enclose postage to any amount desired, 

 or they will be sent by express. No other charge, and you are very 

 w^elcome. 



A Gigantic Seed Distribution.— It is said that the Department 

 of Agriculture has distributed this season twenty million pack- 

 ages of seed, coinprising all varieties of vegetables and flowers, 

 allowing 40,000 to each congressinan and senator— and the seedsmen 

 don't like it. This is nearly three times as much as last year. And 

 yet this is not a paternalistic government. 



Secretary Dunlap Calls.— This office was honored with a call 

 from Sec. Henry M. Dunlap, of the Illinois society, but as he came 

 some time between 5:00 p. m.,July 26th, and 0:00 a. m. of the following 

 day, we failed to connect. We are glad he found time to run up into 

 our beautiful Minnetonka country however, and expect he will, like 

 others, come again. Mr. Dunlap, our members will recall, represen- 

 ted his society at our last annual meeting. 



A Call for a Carnival.— F. W. Taylor, late secretary of the 

 Nebraska society and now superintendent of agriculture and horti- 

 culture at the coming Omaha Exposition, has invited this society 

 to a conference looking towards an apple carnival there in the fall 

 of 1898. If we have an extra good crop of apples then, it would give 

 us great pleasure and some glory to "do 'em up" with a display of 

 our Wealthy and other brilliant, high colored apples of Minnesota 

 origin. Shall we try? 



Have You Seen One? — Many late comtnunicationa received indi- 

 cate that the "itinerant tree peddler" is still abroad in the land. In- 

 stead of setting the dogs on him — as some of them richly merit — 

 find out if he represents some nursery that you know to be reputa- 

 ble, and better still of your own state, and give your order for trees 

 to no other, no matter how seductive his ways. The honest tree 



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