February, 1917 
WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
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and planted the bushes on each side 
of the driveway gate. 
“Last year I took out the 
straight path from the house to the 
main road, and put in the short 
concrete walk to the drive, and fix- 
ed the drive so that I could use that 
for a walk. That gave me this 
nice, big lawn in front of the house, 
and made it much easier when it 
came to the mowing. This spring 
I set out the lilacs, mock oranges, 
honey suckles and arrowwoods 
along the west yard fence, and put 
the flowers in front of the bushes 
by the house. Now my little show 
window is nearly complete, and all 
it will cost is the upkeep. 
“I have told you, Jones, why T 
planted the trees and shrubs, and 
now I will let you be the judge 
whether it pays to spend $10 a 
year, for five years, in fixing up 
this farmer’s show window.” 
Girls and Strawberries 
A young lady who lives in 
Oconto County wants to earn some 
money and being a sensible person 
she is asking questions. Here are 
six of the questions. The answers 
to them furnished by Pres. Ras- 
mussen. 
Q. Is strawberry growing a 
profitable occupation for an indi- 
vidual? A. Yes. 
Q. Is it a sure crop ? A. We 
have not had a failure since irriga- 
tion was put into practice. 
Q. How do you dispose of your 
berries? A. They are all sold at 
wholesale, locally or shipped to 
other markets. 
Q. Do you realize a quart of 
berries on the average per plant? 
A. We grow only in matted rows 
so have no way of ascertaining. 
We picked last year at the rate of 
800 16 qt. crates per acre. 
Q. Have you had many failures 
and what' as a rule was the cause 
of such? A. No. I think a large 
per cent of failures is due to 
droughts and leaf rollers. These 
leaf rollers usually work in the dry 
period and irrigation will control 
both. 
Q. Is it possible for a girl to 
handle an acre of strawberries? 
A. Yes — outside the picking which 
of course she must superintend. 
Q. What, variety of berries do 
you prefer? A. We grow mostly 
Dunlap. In some localities the 
This charming little view is entitled 
The Man With the Spade. Our skilled 
and versatile Vice Pres, is demonstrating 
the setting of strawberry plants. He is 
not listening to the Angelus but to some 
inoffensive remark by the camera man, 
made to attract his attention. 
Warfield fertilized with the Dun- 
lap produce larger crops but this 
good satisfaction. However it is 
is an exception rather than a rule. 
Where a very large fancy berry 
is wanted the Bubach gives very 
too soft for shipping and too light 
colored for canning. 
In closing I will say I would 
give the same advice to a girl as to 
a young man. If possible work on 
a fruit farm for one season at least 
where you can get experience in 
grading, picking, packing, etc. 
This will give you a far better 
knowledge of the business and you 
will then know r whether or not you 
care to embark in this business. 
Have you read the Gentle 
Countryman this week? 
For the Man Who Loves His 
Trees 
J. V. Beyer 
The man who loves his trees, not 
only plants them for the money he 
expects the fruit will bring him but 
he also cares for the appearance of 
his orchard. 
It. certainly is not a pleasing 
sight to see a lot of trees bend in 
all four directions of the hemis- 
phere, particularly S. East as most 
of them do if no care is taken when 
young. 
This has been the case with my 
own trees, for when I first started 
fifteen years ago had the same 
foolish idea that a gi’eat many men 
have, all I had to do was to plant 
them and leave the balance to the 
Almighty and he would tend to the 
rest. 
Six or seven years ago after 
reading a good deal about fruit 
ttees, of their care regarding cul- 
tivation, fertilization, moisture, 
pruning and the army of insects 
and diseases I had to fight I came 
to realize that I was utterly mis- 
taken as far as the Lord was con- 
cerned, but that He gave us the 
tree, like everything else we have in 
this world, with the express un- 
derstanding not only to plant it, 
but we to care and protect other- 
wise we would not get any fruit. 
As I said before, about six or 
seven years ago I began to Urk after 
my trees and found also a great 
many of them leaning towards 
East, and S. East on account of the 
strong pressure of the N. West 
winds. I tried various ways to 
bring them back in a straight posi- 
tion, but with little or no result. 
In the fall of 1912 there was one 
tree which had not borne any fruit 
yet, which was planted 1905 leaned 
so much with two of its main 
branches toward East that I decid- 
ed to cut them away, all it had left 
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