40 
November, 1917 
WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
Wisconsin Horticulture 
Published Monthly by the 
Wisconsin State Horticultural Society 
12 N. Carroll St. 
Official organ of the Society. 
FREDERIC CRANE FIELD, Editor. 
Secretary W. S. H. S., Madison, Wis. 
Entered as second-class matter May 13, 
1912, at the postoffice at Madison, Wis- 
consin, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 
Advertising rates made known on appli- 
cation. 
Wisconsin State Horticultural Society 
Membership fee fifty cents, which in- 
cludes twenty-five cents subscription price 
of Wisconsin Horticulture. Remit fifty 
cents to Frederic Cranefield, Editor, Madi- 
son, Wis. 
Remit by Postal or Express Money Or- 
der. A dollar bill may be sent safely if 
wrapped or attached to a card, and pays 
for two years. Personal checks accepted. 
Postage stamps not accepted. 
OFFICERS. 
N. A. Rasmussen, President Oshkosh 
D. E. Bingham, Vice-President 
Sturgeon 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 
Bth 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 
Convention Program. 
While the convention program is 
still in the making and far from 
the final stage enough has been ac- 
complished to assure a profitable 
three day session, rather better 
than usual. It’s slow work and no 
fun making up a program. What 
do the people want? Shad we 
have new subjects for discussion or 
the same old ones? Shall we have 
outside speakers or our own mem- 
bers? Shall it be mostly amateur, 
largely professional or half-and- 
haT? These are just samples of 
the questions that semi-annually 
vex the program maker and when 
these problems are settled in his 
mind, after a fashion, months 
ahead, there comes the other and 
bigger job of getting the right peo- 
ple to discuss the right subjects. 
If you begin too early in the season 
the persons solicited hesitate to 
promise so far in advance; if you 
wait too late replies are often de- 
layed so that it is too late to print 
the program in time. Troubles and 
yet more troubles, hope, expecta- 
tion, doubts of success and then 
after it ’s all over and you look back 
on the three days and you see, in 
memory, that eager, attentive audi- 
ence hanging on to the words of 
the speaker, sometimes a dozen 
members on their feet at once after 
he has finished, eager to offer testi- 
mony or question the speaker, when 
you think of the long, long talks 
among members between sessions 
and evenings you wonder why you 
were ever concerned about the pro- 
gram. You say to yourself “hang 
the details, what these people real- 
ly want is to get together.” Come 
right down to it you get more out 
of the convention outside of the 
convention hall than you do in it. 
Still there must be a program 
and one that is not lop-sided. As 
the result of observation the pres- 
ent program maker is convinced 
that most people want the every- 
day things rather than the new, a 
chance to discuss and compare 
notes on the things done Us*' year 
which are the things that will he 
done next year and to that end 
the fodowing is a very imperfect 
outline of what wdl happen at the 
forthcoming convention at Madison 
Dec. 11th, 12th and 13th. 
Vegetable gardening: best crops 
to grow for Wisconsin markets. 
Hvorhead irrigation, the Skinner 
system and other kinds. R pre- 
sentatives of different firms have 
been invited. 
War Gardens ’ ’ : Soil prepara- 
tion ; fertilizers, seed sowing; early 
crops; succession crops; tools, etc., 
one half day will be devoted to this 
subject. 
Flowers for the home : Annuals 
and their culture ; perennials for 
cut flowers ; summer flowering 
bulbs ; planning and planting the 
home grounds. 
Commercial fruit growing : 
Cherry culture in Wisconsin ; or- 
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chard cultivation ; diseases of tree 
fruits; the apple grading law; 
fruit marketing. 
There will be twenty-five sub- 
jects in all in addition to two even- 
ing sessions. One or more repre- 
sentatives of the U. S. Department 
of Agriculture will be present as 
well as several delegates from oth- 
er states, but the bulk of the pro- 
gram will be by our own members. 
The complete program will be 
given in the December number of 
Wisconsin Horticulture which will 
be mailed about Dec. 1st. 
THE COMING ATONEMENT. 
Every American woman is in 
a position to bring nearer the 
inevitable atonement for the 
brutal outrages in Belgium, Ar- 
menia and Serbia, the sinking 
of the Lusitania and other hor- 
rors, by her day-by-day econ- 
omies. 
There need be no fear that 
the sacrifices will be wasted. 
Unless the Entente Allies are 
able t:> import the supplies 
necessary for the armies and 
the population, victory may slip 
from our united grasp. — Baron 
Rhondda, Food Controller of 
Great Britain. 
In order to be fair let us in- 
sert these two words between 
the third and fourth words of 
the first line, — “and man" — Edi- 
tor. 
