WINTER MEETING OP WISCONSIN STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 13 



Winter Meeting of the Wisconsin State Horticultural 



Society. 



J. F. HARRISON, EXCELSIOR, MINN., DELEGATE. 



The annual meeting, 1916, was held in the senate cham- 

 ber of the beautiful new capitol building, which is just being 

 completed at Madison, Wis. 



The exhibits were arranged around the outside of the bal- 

 cony, or corridor, which runs around the center of the building, 

 and it was a fine exhibit of all kinds of apples and vegetables, 

 which certainly were a credit to the Wisconsin fruit growers 

 and a great advertisement for the state. One exhibit which was 

 of especial interest and attracted a great deal of attention was 

 made by one of the ladies, and her exhibit consisted of apples 

 served in fifty-seven different ways. An exhibit of this kind 

 gives one some idea of what an orchard means to every farmer 

 and his family. 



The program was very interesting and very instructive, very 

 much like our Minnesota program, but I believe I got much more 

 out of it, and the reason for this was I did not have so many of 

 my friends to visit with, consequently I got the benefit of the 

 whole program. 



The papers and talks on orchard diseases were some of the 

 best I ever heard. They certainly have men who are well up in 

 the business of fruit growing in Wisconsin, and I do not think 

 there is any danger of orchard diseases getting possession of the 

 orchards there. 



I noticed their professors are not only professors but are 

 practical fruit growers as well. 



They also have a lot of young students who will be able to 

 take care of the fruit industry and combat the diseases which 

 may attack the orchards and will keep the horticultural society 

 alive when its affairs are turned over to them. 



I think the students' contest was one of the best I ever 

 heard. 



Making my report as short as possible, I will say the meet- 

 ing was so very good I want to go again. The Wisconsin State 

 Horticultural Society is hard to beat and the members are all the 

 same good fellows as our own. 



