THE SECRETARY’S OFFICE during the summer month, will be open as usual except Saturday afternoon, but the secretary will be in regularly only on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

THE STATE ENTOMOLOGISTS REPORT ON NURSERY INSPECTION in 1915 has been issued as circular No. 37.  It contains a list of all inspected nurseries in the state; and also six full page photographs illustrating the nursery industry in Minnesota.  Copies can be obtained by writing F.L.  Washburn, St. Anthony Park, Minn.

A GOOD YIELD OF EVERBEARING STRAWBERRY PLANTS.—­Mr. J. J. Kunkel, of Kimball, Minn., writes under date of May 13th:  “The three everbearing strawberry plants I received of you in 1915 made about 250 young plants, of which I replanted this spring about 200.  We had a few berries, but did not expect berries as we let all runners grow.”

Who has done better than that in growing No. 1017 everbearing strawberry plants?

A FARMER ON THE BOARD OF REGENTS.—­We are much pleased to note the appointment of a real farmer in the person of C. W. Glotfelter, of Waterville, as a member of the Board of Regents of the Minnesota State University.  Mr. Glotfelter is well known throughout the state as late president of the Minnesota State Agricultural Society, and is at present occupying the same position with the Minnesota Crop Breeders’ Association.  He is a farmer in every sense, as he lives upon a farm which he has himself worked personally a great many years.  We feel that the horticultural and agricultural interests of the state are especially well cared for by this board in having Mr. Glotfelter in its membership.

WYMAN ELLIOT’S CONTRIBUTION TO THE LIBRARY.—­A short time since Mrs. Elliot, widow of the late Wyman Elliot, sent to this office as a contribution to our library all of the horticultural and agricultural books which belonged to Mr. Elliot.  There were in all 397 volumes, nearly all of them bound in cloth.  The larger portion of these were reports of other horticultural and agricultural societies, most of which the Horticultural Society already had in the library.  There were, however, some forty or fifty very valuable reference books, or books on specific subjects of a horticultural character, and a considerable number of reports of other societies which we did not have, in all amounting to seventy-seven volumes.  These have been placed mostly in two cases by themselves which will be marked with Mr. Elliot’s name, and, of course, each one of these volumes has an inscription of similar character on the fly leaf.  The remainder of these books, 320 in number, are being sent to University Farm library for use there as far as they need them, and they will be likely to know where to place to advantage any that they have no personal use for.  There are plenty of libraries in the state that would be glad indeed to receive some of these volumes, and we hope that in this way Mr. Elliot’s name will appear in the catalog of many of our public libraries.