WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
March, 1917 
112 
Wisconsin Horticulture. 
( Continued from Page 109 ) 
ing house says he can get. Here is 
a place where the proposition of 
reputation comes in. N ery fre- 
quently we get let ers from buy- 
ers located in various sections of 
the country, which read about as 
follows: “Can you put us in 
touch with a locality in your state 
where we can get certain quanti- 
ties, (stating the quantities), of de- 
sirable fruit?” Those quantities 
are usually so large that we are 
unable to write to those buyers 
and say, “You go to such a point 
and you can get it.” We may 
know of two or three men possibly 
in a section who are producing the 
right kind of fruit, but not enough 
to .make a good shipment. Both 
Cranefield and myself are trying 
to maintain the reputation of the 
fruit produced in the state and 
we do not like to say to a buyer 
outside cf the state, “You go to 
this section and you can get this 
fruit,” and then have him get 
there and find that he cannot get 
it or have him order shipments 
from that section and when he gets 
them, find the fruit not up to grade 
and dishonestly packed. We must 
have then a considerable body of 
men in the state who can be abso- 
lutely depended upon to produce 
good fruit and pack it honestly, if 
we hope to establish a clearing 
house. 
The clearing house is simply to 
gather and distribute information 
regarding the market to those 
growers who cannot afford, because 
of their relatively small acreages, 
to gather the information for 
themselves. 
Why this clearing licuse? Let 
me illustrate. I have a ten acre 
orchard. I cannot afford, finan- 
cially, to get in touch with the var- 
ious markets and find out where to 
place my fruit to the best advan- 
tage. If I can co-operate, how- 
ever, with a large number of other 
growers of similar condition and 
have the information gathered fci 
us, and I can avail myself of that 
information, then I can advantage- 
ously contribute my share to the 
support of the proportion. 
Probably we have not reached 
the proper point in the develop- 
ment of our fruit industry to war- 
rant such an undertaking, and it 
may be even possible that we will 
not be ready for it within the next 
few years. The thing I have been 
trying to do this morning is not 
to give you something which you 
simply listen to and then straight- 
way forget, but rather I have been 
trying to outline some problems 
which are going to take the very 
best thought of every member of 
the Wisconsin Horticultural So- 
ciety for the next two, three, five, 
or possibly ten years to solve cor- 
rectly ; problems which we are run- 
ning up against and will continue 
to run up against, and which 
sooner or later, if not correctly 
solved, will ruin our fruit indus- 
try. Are we going to be prepared 
when we meet those problems? 
We are not going to be prepared, 
we are not going to be able to meet 
them successfully, unless we begin 
to plan, unless we begin to work 
out a solution in advance. I do 
not mean to even indicate that 
what I have said is the solution. I 
have only been throwing out a few 
suggestions in order to set you all 
thinking about these problems so 
that when the time comes to act, 
we will be ready. 
Bulletin 766, United States De- 
partment of Agriculture, is en- 
titled “The Common Cabbage 
Worm.” Send to the Division of 
Pub’ications, Washington, D. C., 
for it. 
It is said that sphagnum moss in 
the bottom of a vase used for cut 
flowers will keep the water fresh 
for some time. 
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