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WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
May, 1917 
An Attractive Home Means 
Contentment 
Keep the children at home by making 
them proud of it. The most effective 
and economical way to do this, is to 
beautify the lawn. Careful arrange- 
ment and good plants are essential. Our 
Landscape Department has specialized 
in this work, is familiar with Wiscon- 
sin conditions, and has probably the 
largest assortment of choice nursery 
stock in the state to select from. 
While Elm Nursery Co. 
Oconomowoc, Wisconsin 
Training Tomatoes. 
(Continued from P. 138 ) 
When the vines reach the top, 
they are cut off. The advant- 
ages of staking are that twice as 
many plants can be set on the 
same area so that the yield is ma- 
terially increased and the fruit 
is much cleaner and ripens earlier. 
TRAINING AND PRUNING HELPS. 
Tomatoes are sometimes trained 
on a trellis made of slats, or on a 
wire fence or even on wires 
stretched between two posts set 
at the ends of the row. The to- 
matoes may or may not be 
pruned, but it usually is advis- 
able to cut off the excess vege- 
table growth, especially where 
the ground is rich. This will 
force most of the growth into the 
fruit. 
How I Made Apples Pay. 
Six years ago an orchard came 
into my hands along with a good 
spraying outfit. 500 apple trees 
were bearing well, but middle 
men got the fruit, or had been 
J. E. Baer. 
A message from Baraboo just 
at this edition goes to press an- 
nounces the death of J. E. Baer 
of that place. 
Mention of Mr. Baer’s services 
to horticulture in Wisconsin will 
appear in a later issue. 
getting it, at a very small price 
and the spraying outfit had not as 
yet been used. 
I was a poor man and needed a 
fair price for my produce. But 
the produce must be made to 
equal the prices wanted. To this 
end the spray was applied 
thoroughly, and the results the 
first year were very satisfactory. 
My entire crop of 700 bushels was 
sold direct to consumer either by 
peddling or shipment. The next 
year I found the apples to be al- 
most absolutely free from worms. 
So to get more and better custom- 
ers and a little better prices the 
buyers were offered 2 cts. a piece 
for every worm found in a 
bushel. Well, the idea worked 
Fio. 1 FlO. 2 Flo 3 
BERRY BOXES 
Crates, Bushel Boxes 
and Climax Baskets 
As You Like Them 
We manufacture the Ewald Patent 
Folding Berry Boxes of wood veneer 
that give satisfaction. Berry box and 
crate material in the K. D. in carload 
lots our specialty. We constantly carry 
in stock 16 quart crates all made up 
ready for use, either for strawberries or 
blueberries. No order too small or too 
large for us to handle. We can ship the 
folding boxes and crates in K. D from 
Milwaukee. Promptness is essential in 
handling fruit, and we aim to do our 
part well. A large discount for early 
orders. A postal brings our price list. 
Cumberland Fruit Package 
Company 
Dept. D, Cumberland, Wis. 
splendidly and many people 
leaned to know the value of good 
clean, wormfree fruit. Surely 
the way to make an orchard pay 
big is first, of course, to make it 
produce good fruit and second, to 
place this product before people 
that appreciate it. 
H. P. Anderson. 
