WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
June, 1917 
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Wisconsin horticulture 
Published Monthly by the 
Wisconsin State Horticultural Society 
12 N. Carroll St. 
Official organ of the Society. 
FREDERIC CRANEF1ELD, Editor. 
Secretary W. S. H. S., Madison, Wis. 
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1912, at the postoffice at Madison, Wis- 
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OFFICERS. 
N. A. Rasmussen. President Oshkosh 
D. E. Bingham, Vice-President 
Sturgeo.n Bay 
L. G. Kellogg, Treasurer Ripon 
F. Cranefield. Secretary Madison 
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 
N. A. Rasmussen Ex-officio 
D. E. Bingham Ex-officio 
L. G. Kellogg Ex-officio 
F. Cranefield Ex-officio 
1st Dist., A. Martini Lake Geneva 
2nd Dist., R. J. Coe Ft. Atkinson 
3rd Dist., H. H. Morgan Madison 
4th Dist., Henry Wilke Milwaukee 
5th Dist., C. V. Holsinger. . .Wauwatosa 
6th Dist., H. C. Christensen Oshkosh 
7th Dist., Wm. Toole, Sr Baraboo 
8th Dist., O. G. Malde Grand Rapids 
9th Dist., L. E. Birmingham Sturgeon Bay 
10th Dist., C. L. Richardson 
Chippewa Falls 
11th Dist., J. F. Hauser Bayfield 
BOARD OF MANAGERS. 
N. A. Rasmussen F. Cranefield 
L. G. Kellogg 
Hold! 
The great Spring Drive started 
by the Agricultural College and 
other state institutions and con- 
tinued by the newspapers of the 
state has been successful. Not 
only the larger towns, such as Mil- 
waukee, Superior, Oshkosh and 
Sheboygan but hundreds of small- 
er places have been captured and 
tho inhabitants all inoculated with 
the garden germ. Travel where 
you will in the state you may see 
gardens innumerable where no 
gardens ever grew before. And 
it’s a mighty good thing. Even if 
the war should end tomorrow and 
if the food supply, on account of 
an abundant harvest, should be 
superabundant, two things highly 
improbable there would still be 
great gain. 
Several things will be gained, 
health and vigor for many city 
gardeners, a. love of gardening 
that will not end with the war 
and, on the part of many, a greater 
respect for the farmer and gar- 
dener, for the man or woman who 
this year for the first time raises 
a bushel of potatoes or of tomatoes 
will know what it costs to produce 
them. 
Also the money value of all 
these thousands of gardens will be 
tremendous, if, and here comes 
the rub, if we all HOLD FAST ! 
This is the first battle for many 
and some will drop their weapons 
and run. Digging and sowing the 
seed is not unlike marching down 
the street behind the band but get- 
ting into the trenches is another 
matter. 
That’s where you will be dur- 
ing June, July and August, dear 
brethern, in the trenches. Let’s 
see if you’ve got grit enough to 
stick. Your enemies will attack 
day and night, week-day and Sun- 
day, rusts, blight, bugs, worms, 
drought and storm. Yet every 
one of them can be overcome if 
you Hold Fast. 
Call it war and you have it 
about right, we won’t change the 
figure but somehow when I think 
of you beginners hammering at 
some hard and unkindly soil with 
a dull hoe. the thermometer at 80 
or 90 and not a cloud in the sky I 
like to think of the big Chicago- 
Wisconsin foot-ball game at Camp 
Randall last October. 
The home team had been getting 
rather the worst of it, forced back 
inch by inch but fighhting bravely 
all the way ; all the way back across 
the ten yard line, back again over 
the five yard line they are now 
scarce a foot from the goal and 
the ball on the opponents side. 
There they stand or crouch, tense, 
every nerve strained, every muscle 
taut, waiting for the signal that 
will start the opponent’s rush 
across their goal. — unless ! Then 
from the ten thousand spectators 
came a cry, not the college yell, 
not a mere shout but just a single 
word, at first almost like a dirge 
but with each repetition swelling 
louder and louder, one word, 
hold, hold, h-o-l-d, and they did 
hold the line, "Will you? 
Summer Meeting. 
The summer meeting will be 
held in Oshkosh Aug. 22-23. 
Some of the best market gardens 
in the state are located near Osh- 
kosh and it is for this reason the 
meeting was located there. 
This is the greatest garden year 
in our history, everybody is gar- 
dening and while many of the be- 
ginners may fall by the wayside 
many more will have acquired a 
love for the work that will persist. 
To these converts to our ranks 
as well as all those who have been 
saved in the past the summer 
meeting offers a splendid oppor- 
tunity. 
The meeting will be unlike those 
of recent years in one respect, the 
entertainment features will be 
minimized and the program and 
demonstration emphasized. 
At least one-half of the time will 
be spent in visiting market gar- 
dens. 
If the war should happily be 
ended by that date we, who have 
done our bit, and that means 
every member of the Society, 
should gather to rejoice, each to 
