THE WISCX)NSIN STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 1 29 



interests are mutual and our environments so identical that we surely 

 can join hands in this enterprise. 



Our society consists of eleven honorary life, twelve honorary 

 annual, twenty-five life and 126 annual members, a total of 174. 

 Our treasury is well stocked and our appropriations are adequate 

 for all demands. 



Our appropriation for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition is 

 $5,000. We have secured a fine site near the entrance of the Agri- 

 cultural Building of 1176 square feet and 166 feet of aisle frontage, 

 where we want you all to come and see us. We have at this time 

 699 bushels of our top apples in cold storage, consisting of fifty 

 varieties, including (as our chairman informs me) about 100 bushels 

 of our wonderful and famous Northwestern Greenings. That will 

 be the center of attraction for our opening at St. Louis. 



We have several local societies auxiliary to our state society 

 which are doing great good and enthusing efforts along this line. 



We have located one new trial orchard the past season at 

 Poplar, about twenty miles from Superior. Our orchard at Wau- 

 sau did finely the past season and produced a fine crop of splendid 

 apples, cherries and plums, and it has been the means of encourag- 

 ing the planting of many trees in that section of the state. 



Personally, I am not satisfied with the management and control 

 of these orchards. I believe the lands should be owned by the state, 

 and a competent man should be employed the year around at such 

 orchards. 



W^e are sending delegates to ]\Iinnesota. X. E. Iowa, Iowa 

 State. Northern Illinois, Illinois State, Michigan and Missouri con- 

 ventions, and we extend a cordial invitation to any and all of you to 

 be with us at our annual meeting, to be held at Madison in the first 

 full week in February next. Cordially submitted, 



The Chairman : A man who can go through life and reach the 

 age Mr. Barnes has reached and still feel' so optimistic should 

 certainly be congratulated, and I think you will all join me in con- 

 gratulating ]\Ir. Barnes on his fine optimism. 



How Thev Kill Moles at the World's Fair. — "The mole takes 

 his meals regularly at 6 a. m., noon and 6 p.m., and at any of these hours is 

 the time to catch him. 



"The ridges made by the mole must be beaten down, and watched. When 

 tlie mole goes over the route again the ridge is again raised. Then the process 

 is easy. Take a spade, drive it in the ground across the mole's route and be- 

 hind him. Unless this is done he will skurry underground and find safety in 

 one of the deep holes that he has provided for emergencies. But the spade 

 stops his progress, and he may be easily dug out and dispatched. In less than a 

 month the moles were banished from the agricultural section of the World's 

 Fair." 



