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between the producer and consumer? There is no reason why they 

 cannot if they go at it. It is in their power. 



Last winter at Madison, Wis., two papers were read at the an- 

 nual meeting- of the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society relat- 

 ing to this subject of co-operation in the marketing of fruit, result- 

 ing in the society taking the matter in hand" and appointing a com- 

 mittee of three, consisting of Wm. Hanchett, President of Sparta 

 Fruit Growers' Association ; D. E. Bingham, of Sturgeon Bay 

 Association ; and H. B. Hotchkiss, of Eau Claire, Wis. The duties 

 of this committee are to formulate a plan under which all fruit grow- 

 ers can co-operate in marketing fruit. The duties of this committee 

 is no child's play but rather a task for men in which time and money 

 are necessary. It will take the assistance of every fruit grower both 

 in time and money to put in operation and carry out a plan when 

 once formulated. What if it does ? Have we not already put in the 

 hands of the middlemen enough money to build great warehouses, 

 cold storages, pay handsome salaries and handsome profits to build 

 beautiful even palatial homes? Won't we continue this just as long 

 as we continue to dump our products in their hands to sell at their 

 price and return as much or little as they see fit? Do you not see 

 that it is just as important to sell at a profitalile price as it is to raise 

 the luscious fruit and the golden grain ? 



Mr. Hanchett has been called by the Iowa people to present this 

 subject at their annual meeting. Now won't you here in Minnesota 

 take a hold with your sister state and help control vour own busi- 

 ness and place it where it belongs, at the head of all the professions 

 and occupations both in respect and finance. 



I met Frederic Cranefield, secretary of the Wisconsin State Hor- 

 ticultural Society, several times after the annual meeting before 

 leaving Madison, and he said to me each time "I did not think much 

 of your subject when making out the program, but it keeps impress- 

 ing itself upon me more and more. The more I think of it the 

 more I see that it is one of the most important questions we have 

 to deal with. What is the use of producing the fruit unless w<e 

 can sell at a profitable price ?"' 



Prize Pansies — 1 . Buy the best seed procurable — such as Masterpiece or 

 Bugnot's Selected. 2. Sow in August for spring flowering or in June for fall 

 flowering. 3. Prepare the bed specially by taking out the ordinary soil to the 

 d'-pth of one foot and replacing it with a thoroughly mixed and pulverized 

 combination of leaf mould and well-rotted cow manure in equal proportions — 

 also mix in a little bone-meal and wood-ashes. 4. Keep the plants moist. 

 Give some .shade during July and August and protect with leaves in winter. 



