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WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
December, 1916 
Fruit and Garden Institutes 
Beginning Dec. 19th twenty- 
two two-day special fruit and 
garden institutes will be con- 
ducted jointly by the Depart- 
ment of Farmer’s Institutes and 
the State Horticultural Society. 
The speakers will be D. E. 
Bingham of Sturgeon Bay and 
N. A. Rasmussen of Oshkosh. 
The institutes will be held as 
follows: 
Baraboo, December 19th and 
20th. 
Reedsburg December 21st and 
22nd. 
Mt. Horeb, January, 2nd and 
3rd. 
Dodgeville, January 4th and 
5th. 
Lake Geneva, January 9th 
and 10th. 
Janesville, January 11th and 
12th. 
East Milwaukee, January 16th 
and 17th. 
West Allis, January 18th and 
19th. 
Bayfield, January 23rd and 
24th. 
Washburn, January 25th and 
26th. 
Beaver Dam, January 30th 
and 31st. 
Fox Lake, February 1st and 
2nd. 
La Farge, February 6th and 
7th. 
Richland Center, February 8th 
and 9th. 
West Bend, February 13th 
and 14th. 
Kewunee, February 15th and 
16th. 
Waupaca, February 20th and 
21st. 
Weyauwega, February 22nd 
and 23rd. 
Marinette, February 27th and 
28th. 
Green Bay, March 1st and 
2nd. 
Eau Claire, March 6th and 
7th. 
Sparta, March 8th and 9th. 
These institutes have been ar- 
ranged jointly by the Dept, of 
Farmer’s Institutes and this So- 
ciety. One or more of our mem- 
bers have been asked by Supt. 
Luther to act as a local commit- 
tee to arrange for hall, etc., but 
every member in or near any of 
the towns named is hereby ap- 
pointed a committee of one on 
publicity for his particular in- 
stitute. 
This splendid recognition of 
horticulture, twenty-two special 
institutes, by the Institute De- 
partment, places us under an 
obligation and every member of 
the Society within reach of these 
institutes should attend and urge 
his neighbors to attend. The 
men who will conduct them are 
splendidly fitted for the work. 
Mr. Bingham who was selected 
by this Society eight years ago 
as special worker in horticulture 
was a pioneer in this field for 
until that time an occasional talk 
on the farm garden by some 
member of the institute force 
whose main specialties were live 
stock, poultry and dairying, con- 
stituted all of horticultural sci- 
ence and practice taught at the 
seventy or more farmer’s in- 
stitutes. During his eight years 
of service Mr. Bingham has at- 
tended hundreds of institutes 
generally making four a week 
through out the season. He is said 
to be the only fruit grower in the 
state who has never been engaged 
in any other line of work. 
Mr. Rasmussen who will 
handle the gardening topics both 
from the home and market 
standpoint is well known to all 
of our members and to thousands 
of others who have heard his 
thoroughly practical talks at in- 
stitutes and horticultural gather- 
ings. 
The two-day institute with 
only two speakers is somewhat 
of an innovation but holds prom- 
ise of success. The institutes 
are primarily for the farmer with 
special attention given to com- 
mercial fruit growing and mar- 
ket gardening in sections where 
the conditions of soil and mar- 
kets are favorable for these lines 
of work. These are some of the 
subjects which will be discussed: 
Trees for the Farm Orchard 
The Farmer and the Nursery 
Agent 
Planting Trees 
When and How to Prune 
Fertility and the Farm Or- 
chard. 
Pests of the Farm Orchard and 
How to Control Them. 
Soil Handling in the Orchard. 
Picking and Storing Farm 
Fruits. T1 
How to Exhibit Fruit at Fairs 
The Wisconsin State Horticul- 
tural Society 
How to Succeed with Small 
Fruits on the Farm 
Commercial Fruit Growing. 
Marketing Fruit 
Farm Gardens 
How to Store Vegetables for 
Winter. 
Vegetable Gardens for City 
and Town. 
Small Fruits for Village & 
City Gardens 
Garden Tillage 
Hot Beds and Cold Frames 
Diseases and Insects of the 
Garden and Their Treatment. 
Growing Vegetables for Mar- 
ket. 
Marketing Vegetables. 
Improvement of the Home 
Grounds. 
How to Exhibit Vegetables at 
Fairs. 
In addition practical demon- 
strations in pruning will be con- 
ducted whenever the weather 
permits. 
