September, 1916 
WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
9 
Every Reader May Have One 
Guess 
While browsing thru my desk 
recently I dug up a letter dated 
March #7th, 1906 which was 
sent me by the Editor of a very 
well known agricultural paper. 
On the top of the sheet is pen- 
ciled the following: “Dear Mr. 
Cranefield, What about this, is 
he crazy?” It really did not seem 
worth while to print such letter 
to say nothing of an answer to it 
and so it has lain ten years in the 
bottom of the drawer. During 
these ten years I have received 
not less than one hundred 
“crank” letters similar to this 
one many of them plainly the 
product of a diseased brain but 
many more simply hobby riders. 
Which is this? Only one guess. 
F. C. 
The Wisconsin Agriculturist 
Dear Sir 
I write to You concerning 
Experment that I know that is 
all right and I would like to have 
It advertised In order to help 
all farmers it willnot cost them 
much to try I have twenty Six 
hundred apple trees planted 
three year old and I can pick out 
Seeds out of a core of anapple 
that will reproduce the same 
kind of fruit without grafting 
now it will be quite a few Years 
before mine Will fruit. So that I 
can prove up to the public now 
if you wish to put a piece In 
Your paper that if parties wishes 
to try to raise Some of the seed- 
lings the Same as I am Doing if 
they will Send me cores as many 
as they wish all Expences payed 
Such as postage I will Send back 
the seeds and they Shall plant 
them and when they prove up as 
I have mentioned and they are 
Satisfied what can be Done they 
can send me what they think is 
fare for my trouble now I am 
Doing that in order So my 
business will get the farmers In- 
lighten to geting Into Some trees 
that willnot be a Dicing off In a 
few years before there Seeds will 
prove up mine will and I can 
Show the public what will be a 
great benefit to the public You 
need not put the writing or 
printing in right a way only 
when you are not crowded in 
Your cooloms Next fall when 
apples is plenty So farmers can 
get plenty of apples So they Can 
Send coies 
Yours, 
Picking the Winner 
The Manitowoc County Horti- 
cultural society held their first 
annual picnic at the farm of W. 
J. Ahrens, north of the city, yes- 
terday afternoon, the meeting 
being attended by about a hun- 
dred and fifty members. Lunch 
was served at noon, coffee, cream 
and lemonade being furnished on 
the grounds, while the picnickers 
brought their own baskets. 
N. A. Rasmussen, of Oshkosh, 
president of the State Horticul- 
tural society, delivered an ad- 
dress in the afternoon, touching 
upon various common difficul- 
ties which confront the grower. 
A contest was held, the object 
being to decide upon the best 
pruned tree in the Ahrens or- 
chard, which is one of the finest 
in the neighborhood. Airs. Carl 
Kiel won first place and Miss 
Alma Jacobson picked the second 
best. 
The affair was the first of its 
kind to be held in the county, 
and the members of the society 
plan to make it an annual event. 
If onions have stopped grow- 
ing, pull them and lay them on 
the ground to ripen. When the 
tops are dry twist them off and 
store the bulbs. 
Salzer’s Seeds 
are particular seeds for particular 
planters. Send for Market Gar- 
dener’s Book. 
JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO. 
401 South 8th St., La Crosse, Wis. 
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Have all the standard varieties as 
well as the newer sorts. Can sup- 
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Fruit Trees, Small Fruits, 
Vines and Ornamentals. 
Let us suggest what to plant both 
in Orchard and in the decoration 
of your grounds. 
Prices and our new Catalog sent 
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of wants. 
Nurseries at Waterloo. Wis. 
The Hawks 
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consin and other north- 
ern districts. 
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Wauwatosa, Wisconsin 
