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Meeting of the South Dakota State Hort. Socy. — As we go to press 

 the date and place of meeting of this society are not yet known, but any one 

 interested in finding out might address Prof. N. E. Hansen, Brookings, 

 S. D. Prof. Hansen, always in attendance at our meeting, is secretary of 

 that society, which fact alone insures an interesting program. The repre- 

 sentative of this society at that meeting will be Mr. M. R. Cashman, of Owa- 

 tonna, from whom we may expect an interesting report in the February 

 number. 



Who Should Be Members? — We are very ambitious to reach more 

 people with the work of the society and do more good, and there surely 

 must be some of your acquaintances, dear fellow member, who would be 

 profited by a connection with this society. Won't you please send to Secy. 

 A. W. Latham, 207 Kasota Blk., Minneapolis, Minn., on a postal card, a list 

 of such friends and acquaintances, either near or far, whom you would like 

 to nominate for membership in this society, and the secretary will do his 

 best to secure their names on our membership roll. Such co-operation as 

 this in some form is absolutely necessary to insure success in our purpose to 

 enlarge the field in which the society is operating, and we feel assured of 

 having it. 



Fruit and Vegetable Shippers Violate Law. — Inspectors have found 

 several interstate shipments of packages of fruits and vegetables, such as 

 grapes, tomatoes, and berries, which contain no statement on the packages 

 as to the quantity of contents. The net weight amendment to the Federal 

 Food and Drugs Act requires that all packages of foods which are shipped 

 into interstate or foreign commerce must be marked plainly and conspicu- 

 ously with a statement of the quantity of the net contents, either by weight 

 or measure. Shippers who violate the law by failing to mark the quantity 

 of the contents of each package of fruits and vegetables they ship into inter- 

 state commerce are liable to criminal prosecution. Several shippers have 

 already been cited to hearings under the Food and Drugs Act for violating 

 its provisions in this respect. 



Auxiliary Societies at the Annual Meeting. — Aside from what 

 societies were spoken of incidentally in the brief report of the meeting, to be 

 found on the first pages of this issue, there were also with us meeting in 

 the same building at various times during the week, the Minnesota Bee- 

 Keepers' Society, L. V. France, Secy., University Farm, St. Paul, and also 

 two other newly organized ocieties, the Minnesota Ginseng Growers' Asso- 

 ciation, F. C. Erkel, Secy., Rockford, Minn., and the Northwest Peony & 

 Iris Society, F. C. Christman, Secy., 3804 Fifth Avenue South, Minneapolis. 

 All of these associations are in a flourishing condition and doing the best 

 kind of work along their respective lines. For the convenience of those of 

 our membership who would be interested to become members of these auxil- 

 iary societies the addresses of the secretaries have been given, with whom 

 you could communicate. 



A Junior Horticultural Society. — As the result of a conference 

 between the officers of this society and the extension workers at University 

 Farm an arrangement has been made which is likely to result in the organ- 

 ization of a Junior Horticultural Society, to be made up of such members 

 of the Minnesota Boys' and Girls' Garden and Canning Clubs throughout 



