August, 1917 
WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
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married and went to live on the 
farm used the wind-fall apples to 
make jelly which she sold and made 
enough money to remodel her 
kitchen and laundry. Mrs. Gil- 
bert's ingenuity has again been at 
work and site has now made an 
admirable steam pressure cooker 
for canning out of her washing 
machine. Mr. Gilbert has a steam 
boiler which lie uses to inject steam 
for heating the mash, water and 
feed, etc., for his stock during the 
winter. Mrs. Gilbert sends this 
jet of steam into her washing ma- 
chine where she has already placed 
her jars of vegetables to be steril- 
ized, and clamps down the cover 
and lets them steam under the re- 
quired pressure for the required 
time and then at the proper mo- 
ment shuts off the steam and lets 
the washer cool down before re- 
moving her cans or jars. The 
washing machine is the ordinary 
dolly style of washer, and the use 
of it for canning in no way inter- 
feres with its use five minutes after 
for washing because when wash- 
ing Mrs. Gilbert always fills it with 
cold water and then turns the 
steam jet in until the water is 
heated to boiling if need be. We 
are all ready to bow our compli- 
ments to Mrs. Gilbert’s ingenuity. 
Send to the University corres- 
pondence Study Department for 
Extracts from Home Economics 
Course 5. The course as a whole 
deals with “Spending the Family 
Income.” The extracts are a fine 
concise manual of Canning, Pre- 
serving, Jelly-making, and Salting, 
of fruits, vegetables and 
There are other notes given out 
on “Dairying.” 
Send to the U. S. Dept, of Agri- 
culture for Bulletins 839 on Home 
( aiming by the ( 'old Pack Method 
and 841 on Drying Fruits and 
Vegetables in the Home. 
The Apple Grading Law 
It has long been conceded by all 
who have studied the subject that 
the first essential in successful mar- 
keting is a high quality product, 
the second the fixing of standards. 
The passage of the apple grad- 
ing law by the state legislature 
therefore marks the very first step 
in advance in the problem of mar- 
keting farm products in Wisconsin. 
The bill which was introduced 
by Senator Everett at the request 
of this Society had a rather rough 
passage thru legislative seas. It 
was once marked for slaughter by 
the Senate Committee on State Af- 
fairs but was saved on the floor by 
Senator Everett and finally passed 
both houses. 
The law fixes standards for ap- 
ples packed and sold in closed 
packages such as boxes and barrels 
and probably baskets. Growers 
who anticipate packing apples for 
sale this year will need to read the 
law carefully. 
Madison Wins 
Madison, not Pardeeville, is now 
the home of the McKay Nursery 
Co. 
This firm has passed the “strug- 
gling” stage and is now a well es- 
tablished concern with a rapidly 
growing business. This being the 
case it is only natural that the man- 
agers should seek a central loca- 
tion. Madison offers infinitely bet- 
ter opportunities than a small 
town for the business end and is 
also somewhat nearer to Waterloo 
the growing end. 
Madison is a winner and for that 
matter so are the McKays, about 
fifty-fifty. 
An Echo 
When in the future material is 
sought for the history of this socie- 
ty the secretary hopes that there 
may be found a sheaf of letters 
which he has filed with a copy of 
the special July 41 h edition. 
These letters coming quickly af- 
ter the paper was mailed, show 
clearly that our country comes first 
in the hearts of our members. 
Patriotism, a sense of the duty 
we owe to the land of our birth, 
are these things dead or esteemed 
only as something to be brought 
out for occasional rehearsal? 
These were questions the writer 
asked over and over and, in a man- 
ner to get an answer conceived the 
Special Number. The answer, 
complete and soul satisfying will be 
read by the history writer when he 
comes. All but one of these letters 
he may find and that one is too 
good to keep so long. It’s from 
the far west the land of the I. W. 
W. the scene of Von Papen’s in- 
trigues. 
Colville, Wash, July 6, 1917. 
Gentlemen : When 1 subscribed 
for Wisconsin Horticulture, 1 thot 
1 would get a really American 
monthly on Horticulture; but the 
recent Special, which 1 am return- 
ing with this mail, is an appeal 
for war at any price, an insult to 
anyone, who does his own think- 
ing, and does not let Downing and 
Wall Street do his thinking for 
him. 
My subscription is about run 
out ; and please do not offend me 
any more with your publication. 
Yours for an HONEST Ameri- 
ca. free from BRITISH as well as 
German rule. 
(Xame on Application) 
P. S. Your own Bob La Foll- 
ette is my ideal of how honest 
Americans should behave in this 
wa r. 
