January, 1917 
WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
73 
A mighty fine compliment to 
everybody concerned in making 
the convention. We are just 
“common folks” united for our 
, common good and the welfare 
and uplift of all the people of 
the state. If each of the host 
of members who have attended 
! conventions and in other ways 
derived benefits from their mem- 
bership would induce just one 
: other person to join the society 
i what a boost we would get in 
membership! It’s just a little 
bit selfish if you don’t do it. 
Don’t you think so? 
Head Off Rabbits and Mice 
Among the absurdities of the 
game laws may be mentioned 
| the protection of rabbits which 
annually destroy thousands of 
fruit trees worth many times 
more than all the rabbits killed 
for food. 
Although not in the game laws 
the statutes in other places con- 
demn the hawks, which destroy 
mice and moles. 
Be that as it may the young 
apple trees should be protected. 
If not attended to in the proper 
season it may still be done if 
snow is not too deep. Wrap 
the trunks with tar paper. 
In this connection Mr. J. A. 
Hays of Gays Mills who has 
annually protected several thou- 
sand trees offers the following 
: valuable testimony. 
Use only tar paper; the tar 
odor alone repels mice. A grain 
bin lined with tar paper is mouse 
proof. Use slack tar paper No. 3 
| which is neither so heavy as to 
break nor so light as to tear in 
the wind if loosened. 
After thoroughly testing the 
j “spiral” method of wrapping, the 
i paper cut in strips 4 to 6 inches 
I wide and wound spirally around 
the trunk, Mr. Hays has aban- 
doned it in favor of a section of 
the roll 18 inches long and wide 
enough to fit around the trunk 
with a liberal lap. These wrap- 
pers may be conveniently made 
by sawing the roll transversely. 
Most important of all Mr. 
Hays testifies to serious injury 
in the spring of 1914 resulting 
from leaving the wrappers on 
too late in the spring. 
Where wrappers were not re- 
moved until after two or more 
weeks of warm April weather 
some trees were killed outright 
and others badly injured mostly 
on the south side. 
Six of the Fifty-Seven 
The following recipes for six 
of the apple products shown at 
the convention were submitted 
by Mrs. Morgan on request by 
the editor. 
APPLE CONSERVE OR CANDIED 
APPLE 
Make syrup of 2 cups sugar 
to \ cup water, use N. W. Green- 
ing, or Jonathan apples, pare, 
core and cut in slices, simmer 
apples in syrup until clear, turn- 
ing often. Take out carefully 
and dry in sun for 12 hours. 
Roll in gran, sugar each day 
until they will not absorb more 
sugar, pack in glass jars. May 
be used in fruit cake or as a con- 
fection. 
APPLE DELIGHT 
2 cups chopped apple cooked 
in double boiler with 2 cups 
sugar, juice and chopped rind of 
1 orange and 1 lemon, 1 cup 
chopped raisins, cook 1 houi add- 
ing 1 cup chopped walnuts 5 
min. before done. Seal in jelly 
glasses. 
APPLE SYRUP 
1 doz. Northern Spy apples, 
cut in pieces and cook in water 
to cover, strain and to each qt. 
juice add juice of 4 oranges and 
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Have all the standard varieties as 
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Let us suggest what to plant both 
in Orchard and in the decoration 
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