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put the poison where he feeds, and if you leave a third of the 

 fruit surface of the tree untouched you have exposed 33 1-3% 

 of the fruit to the attacks of the codling moth as compared with 

 where you have covered everything thoroughly. 



Many men who have sprayed say it does no good. Why? 

 First, because they don't do a thorough job; second, because 

 they don't do it at the right time. The statement as to when 

 to do it is put down in the bulletins and in the spray catalogs 

 of one kind and another. If I should tell you now you would 

 forget it. Send to your experiment station or extension depart- 

 ment and get their printed statement, or to your spray manu- 

 facturer and get a statement from him. Get instructions and 

 then carefully follow them, and you will find it will make a lot 

 of difference in the results. Spraying must be done timely, must 

 be done thoroughly and done with the right material. (Ap- 

 plause.) 



A Winter Garden in the Cellar. 



N. A. RASMUSSEN, MARKET GARDENER, OSHKOSH, WIS. 



I am going to speak of one crop we do not spray, so we won't 

 get into much difficulty. I will direct my remarks more to the 

 ladies, the young folks and the city people. There are, no doubt, 

 some city people here, and I think they too should have gardens 

 as well as the farmers, and have them almost all the year round. 

 It matters not how small a piece of land you have, you will have 

 room enough for a garden anyway. 



There is a place in Milwaukee where I visited, and during 

 my conversation with the hostess she sai'd she was sorry she did 

 not have a garden, but she did not have any place for it. I told 

 her I thought she had. I walked around the house and found 

 all the space she had was a piece of ground between the house 

 and the sidewalk two feet wide and six feet long. I told her it 

 was plenty to raise a great many of her vegetables, and I am 

 going to tell you in a few words what she raised that season. 



In the first part of March, the season being a trifle earlier 

 there, she started with radishes, having first mixed the soil with 

 thoroughly rich manure. She wanted some tomatoes, and I in- 

 formed her how to transplant them and train them to stakes. 

 She had Hubbard squash that she trained on the side of the house. 

 The vine grew thirty odd feet long and in the fall she had nine 

 squash on it that went over twelve pounds apiece. She also had 

 pole beans, lettuce and chives, and the whole thing made as pretty 

 a picture as you ever saw. 



