December, 1917 
WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
57 
Wednesday Afternoon, 2:00 o’clock. 
Back Yard and Vacant Lot Gardens — The A. B. C. of Gardening: 
Soils and Soil Preparation: Manures N. A. Rasmussen 
Best Crops : Early crops, succession crops, vege- 
tables for the cellar: best varieties A. Martini 
Seed Sowing: Cultivation, Watering J. W. Roe 
What I Accomplished in a City Garden 
— Harry Hotchkiss, Oshkosh 
What Boys and Girls Clubs Are Doing to Help Win 
the War Prof. T. A. Erickson, Minn. 
The Sprinkling System for the Vegetable Garden 
G. C. Rasch 
The Skinner System W. B. Coles, Representative 
Wednesday Evening. 
‘‘Come over to our house for supper this evening.” A very infor- 
mal gathering of members and visiting delegates. 
Thursday Forenoon, 9:00 o’clock. 
The Culture of Small Fruits J. L. Hartwell, Illinois 
Fifteen Red Raspberries and the Best Three W. J. Moyle 
The Cranberry Industry in Wisconsin C. M. Seeker 
Old Standard Varieties of Tree Fruits vs. New Ones 
0. M. McElvain, Illinois 
The Fall Bearing Strawberries as a Market Crop M. S. Kellogg 
Overhead Irrigation for Strawberries J. R. Williams 
Thursday Afternoon, 2:00 o’clock. 
Recent Significant Facts in Horticulture Prof. J. G. Moore 
A South or Eastern Slope Best for Fruit Growing and 
Why ' _ W. J. Moyle 
Cherry Growing in Door Co Moulton B. Goff 
Control of Cherry Leaf Spot Prof. G. W. Keitt 
Winter Injury of Cherry Buds Prof. R. H. Roberts 
for the judges by one o’clock 
Tuesday afternoon. No fruit will 
be judged which is not ready at 
that time. Metings will be called 
to order promptly at the time in- 
dicated on the program. 
Pass the Apples 
The following poem by Frank 
Simpson of Huntington, W. Va., 
was published in a recent number 
of the Kickapoo Courier of Gays 
Mills, J. A. Hays, Editor. 
Pass The Apples 
When every pool in Eden was a mir- 
ror. 
That unto Eve her dainty charms 
proclaimed. 
She went undraped without a single 
fear or 
Thought that she had need to be 
ashamed. 
’Twas only when she’d eaten of the 
apple 
And found that evermore she’d have 
to grapple 
With the much-debated problem 
of the nude. 
Thereafter she devoted her atten- 
tion, 
Her time and all her money to 
her clothes, 
And that was the beginning of Con- 
vention, 
And Modesty, as well, I suppose. 
Reaction’s .come about in fashions 
recent, 
Now girls conceal so little from 
the men, 
It would seem, in the name of all 
that’s decent. 
Some one ought to pass the ap- 
ples round again. 
Markets for Cull Fruit 
W. J. Wright, Alfred, N. Y. 
Last week I had the pleasure of 
driving through a large portion of 
the western New York fruit belt. 
The peaches had been picked and 
apple harvest was in full swing. 
This year the apple crop is small 
and in many instances is poor in 
quality, but what impressed me 
more than anything else was the 
fact that there is a market for ev- 
e v v apple. Buyers are keen for bar- 
rel stock, the evaporators are offer- 
ing as high as forty and fifty cents 
a bushel for windfalls, while the 
cider mills and vinegar factories 
are in the market for such fruit 
as the evaporators and canners can- 
not use. 
It is this opportunity to dispose 
of cull fruit to advantage which 
makes apple growing profitable in 
western New York. The orchards 
as a rule are not so well eared for 
as in some other parts of the coun- 
try, there is much scale and dis- 
ease, and though the climate is fa- 
vorable, a yearly crop is by no 
means assured. On the other hand 
not a single apple need be wasted. 
Many growers told me that they 
sold their culls and windfalls for 
enough to pay for the cost of pick- 
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