OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE WISCONSIN STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
Copyright 1917, by the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society, Madison, Wis. All rights reserved 
Volume VII T Madison, Wisconsin, September, 1917 Number I 
Members of the State Horticultural Society have responded 
nobly to the appeals for increased food production and food con- 
servation. We have planted and tended thousands of gardens; 
we urged others to plant and we have helped them over the rough 
places. All this we have done cheerfully, willingly and without 
expectation of reward, but our work is not yet finished. We have 
yet a greater task to perform, a greater duty that we owe our 
country. 
Our soldiers are on their way to France to suffer and perhaps to 
die in the cause of freedom. They are brave boys and fear to face- 
no foe, but are helpless against sneaking cowards who may stab 
them in the back. 
While they are fighting in the trenches, we who are loyal, one ,t 
hundred per cent Americans, must fight the insidious, dastardly 
element that is spreading the poison of discontent and preaching 
the gospel of treason often under the guise of patriotism. 
We, who are tillers of the soil, may now lay aside the rake and 
the lioe until another year, but we are soldiers still and may not 
desert. 
Our soldier sons must know that we are fighting for them as 
they are lighting for us. Strike at this monster of disloyalty 
wherever it may show its head, whether in your community, in 
the press, or the halls of Congress. Do not be afraid, Speak, 
Write, Act! 
