WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
8 
Wisconsin horticulture 
Published Monthly by the 
Wisconsin State Horticultural Society 
12 N. Carroll St. 
Official organ of the Society. 
FREDERIC CRANEFIELD, Editor. 
Secretary W. S. H. S., Madison, Wis. 
Sintered as second-class matter May 13, 
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 
The Summer Meeting. 
Once upon a time we held a sum- 
mer meeting in La Crosse. In ad- 
dition to the officers, the executive 
committee, and the speakers we 
had a total attendance of one. One 
lone farmer from somewhere be- 
hind the hills back of La Crosse 
wandered in but stayed only for 
one session. 
Still back of that the writer re- 
calls a summer meeting at Omro, 
about fifteen years ago, attended by 
the president, the secretary, the 
treasurer and four others. 
During the past five or six years, 
however, there has been a big 
change and the attendance as well 
as the interest at the summer meet- 
ings has crowded closely that of 
the annual winter meeting. We 
all recall with pleasure the two 
meetings at Sturgeon Bay the for- 
mer Oshkosh meeting, the Bayfield 
and the Lake Geneva meetings. It 
is a matter beyond dispute that 
one hundred or more members who 
attended the meeting at Oshkosh 
August 22nd and 23rd found 
it a profitable and entertaining ex- 
perience. The marked feature was 
the tense interest in the program. 
The room was filled at least an 
hour before the time set to begin 
and none left until the last word 
was spoken. 
The heat in the hall was intense 
at times but the only effect was a 
call for more open windows, no one 
thought of leaving. 
Members were present from 
Sturgeon Bay, Green Bay, Neenah. 
Waupaca, Grand Rapids, Milwau 
kee, Madison, West Allis, Kenosha 
and many other points. 
The second day was devoted to 
excursions, the forenoon visiting 
market gardens, the afternoon to 
a trip across country on the excur- 
sion steamer Leander Choate. This 
double-deck boat carries 500 people, 
has two funnels, an enormous stern 
paddle wheel, a flat bottom and is 
said to require only a heavy dew 
to float it. 
After crossing Lake Butte des 
Morts, seven miles, we entered the 
Big Marshes several thousand acres 
in extent, through which the Fox 
winds, twists and turns for miles 
and miles. How we ever got to 
Omro the pilot only knows. For a 
time we would seem to be well on 
our way when suddenly we would 
cut across country and head back 
to Oshkosh or Waupaca or the Phil- 
September, 1917 
lipines but eventually we landed 
m the upper river and at Eureka. 
This trip no doubt seems common- 
place to Oshkosh people but in the 
way of an excursion by water its 
got anything else beat in a dozen 
different ways. Those great marshes 
have a wild beauty all their own. 
Tall, waving grasses conceal a 
treacherous bog across which no 
man may go either afoot or other- 
wise except by one narrow channel. 
Here the wild fowl may bid defi- 
ance to the hunter and the heron, 
the rail and other denizens of 
marshes find a paradise. After 
crossing the marshes this great bulk 
of a steamer edges and shoulders its 
way through a narrow channel for 
miles, meadows, cornfields and gar- 
dens on either bank. It was cer- 
tainly a novel and exciting experi- 
ence to most of us and everybody 
got back tired and happy — but not 
hungry for the Oshkosh ladies 
brought more sandwiches, cake and 
other delicious eatables than could 
he eaten. 
Storing Vegetables. 
Mr. Irving Smith of Ashland, 
having had long practical experi- 
ence in storing vegetables, was in- 
vited to tell about it at the sum- 
mer meeting. He did it but in- 
stead of writing it out, just talked 
off-hand and directly to the point. 
Here are a few of the “high 
lights,” the balance we will get 
when the reporter’s transcript 
comes. 
The vegetables commonly stored 
are potatoes, cabbage and the dif- 
ferent root crops such as carrots, 
parsnips, salsify, etc. The ideal 
storage place is the out-door or 
detached root-cellar or root house, 
commonly built in part below 
ground, frost proof, moist, and ven- 
tilated. Here vegetables will keep 
