advance list of premiums to be offered on
vegetables and apples at the coming annual meeting of the society. There
will be practically no change from this list, though there may be slight
additions to it. Possible exhibitors may feel safe to save material for
exhibition in accordance with the premiums therein offered.

PASSING OF J.F. BENJAMIN.--Members of the society who have
attended our annual meetings for the last ten or more years will readily
recall the face and figure of this very loyal member of the society, who
was always at hand to serve in any capacity as opportunity came to him.
Mr. Benjamin was a successful fruit grower, not only from a financial
standpoint but from his love of the art. We hope to publish a suitable
sketch of his life at some later date.

MUNICIPAL CAMPS IN NATIONAL FORESTS.--The City of Fresno,
California, has established a fifteen-acre camp in an adjoining national
forest, providing low cost outings for the school children of that city
and their parents. Los Angeles is doing something similar on even a
larger scale, and other municipalities are following suit. Minnesota has
splendid national forests, and the time may come when the state or some
of the municipalities of the state may be able to make similar use of
these forests for the benefit of our people who are not able to go to
larger expense to secure needed summer outing.

THE APPLE CROP.--The Department of Agriculture in its August
1st report forecasts an apple crop of seventy-one million barrels
against seventy-six million last year and a yearly average for the past
five years of sixty-six million. The favored regions in apple growing
this year are in the New England states and the Pacific states, the
Central states showing a very large falling off in the apple crop,
anywhere from four-fifths to one-fourth of previous years.

NATIONAL VEGETABLE GROWERS' ASSOCIATION.--It seems there is an
association of this character, called "Vegetable Growers' Association of
America," and it will hold its next annual meeting in LaSalle Hotel,
Chicago, September 26-29. Representatives of local vegetable growers'
associations' will probably do well to get in touch with this national
gathering. If any go from this state the secretary will be glad to
receive from them a report of the meeting. Marketing, soil fertility,
heating, packing, spraying and other subjects will be covered on the
program. For further information address James B. Foley, Sec