WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
73 
January, 1918 
« Mrs. L. H. Palmer, Baraboo; trcas- 
j urer, Mrs. C. E. Strong, West 
• Allis; Board of Directors, Mrs. 
Wm. Longland, Lake Geneva; 
j Mrs. R. J. Coe, Ft. Atkinson ; Mrs. 
! M. E. Brand, Madison; Miss J. 
Lundauer, West Allis; Mrs. C. E. 
Estabrook, Milwaukee ; Mrs. W. E. 
Lovell, Omro; Mrs. A. R. Reinking, 
l Baraboo; Mrs. S. N. Whittlesey, 
I Cranmoor, and Mrs. D. E. Bing- 
ham, Sturgeon Bay. In addition 
to the above the following signed as 
charter members: Mrs. John 
Leuders, Madison ; Mrs. J. J. 
Ihrig, Oshkosh ; Mrs. G. W. Reigle, 
| Madison; Mrs. W. A. Toole, Bara- 
boo; Mrs. L. E. Birmingham, Stur- 
geon Bay; Mrs. Geo. Miller, Osh- 
kosh ; Mrs. Wm. Nelson Oshkosh ; 
Mrs. F. Cranefield, Madison, and 
Mrs. F. B. Sherman, Edgerton. 
Committees were appointed on 
by-laws, membership, program etc., 
all to report at the summer meet- 
ing. 
The aims and objects of the club 
are expressed in the title, aux- 
iliary, — which means aid, help. 
A Call for Volunters. 
The Gardener’s Advisory Coun- 
cil is now more than a mere name. 
It represents a band of earnest 
workers who gave freely of their 
time to help beginners in garden- 
ing. 
We were all handicapped last 
year on account of lack of time and 
everything had to be done within 
one short month at least anything 
that was worth while. This year 
we can begin earlier and the ex- 
perience of the past season will 
guide us in the right direction. 
The board of managers last year 
selected 100 names from our mem- 
bership list advising each that he 
had been “drafted” as a garden 
advisor. The idea was to cover 
the entire state as far as possible, 
but fortunately our membership 
is not evenly distributed over the 
state. In some cities we have a 
few members, in others of consid- 
erable size none at all. In Osh- 
kosh, for instance, we have over 
one hundred members but in La 
Crosse not one. Again, the sec- 
retary who was called on to make 
up the “draft list” was obliged 
to depend, in many instances on 
chance, not having personal 
knowledge of the fitness of the 
persons selected. ! 
This year the “draft” system 
will be changed to the “volunteer” 
plan. Those who worked last year 
will be asked to volunteer for an- 
other season’s service and the lists 
are now open for other volunteers. 
Who will help ? We will need not 
100 but 500 or 1,000 helpers in the 
garden work. We want especially 
good amateur gardeners, those who 
have been successful in raising the 
commoner garden vegetables to 
- volunteer ; first, to begin now to 
make a garden survey of your 
neighborhood, ward or city to find 
where gardens can be planted, va- 
cant lots that can be had free etc. ; 
second; to find people, men, wo- 
men or children to plant gardens 
either on their own premises if 
land is available, otherwise on the 
vacant lots ; third to look up seed 
supplies and suggest to prospec- 
tive gardeners amounts required 
In fact one who has made a gar- 
den will readily think of many 
other things that can be done. 
After you volunteer the fact will 
be mentioned ijj your home paper 
and people invited to call on you 
for advice. 
The actual time that you will be 
required to take fi'om your work or 
your business will not be great, 
much of the help can be given by 
telephone during the planting sea- 
son. It means that you will give 
up your leisure moments, that you 
will often be disturbed when you 
are tired, that on account of this 
you will work longer days than you 
have been accustomed to work but 
I have yet to meet a horticulturist 
who was unwilling to do that. So 
many good-hearted loyal people are 
wondering what they can do now 
to help. If you know how to plant 
and tend a garden here is a chance. 
We will need dozens of volunteers 
in Milwaukee and more than one in 
every town and city. In doing 
this we are doing our part just as 
truly as the conscientious farmer 
who is straining all his resources 
to raise more food ; as much as any 
one who is engaged in manufactur- 
ing clothing or munitions even 
more, as food is the first essential 
to success. Do you want to do 
your share? Send in your name 
to Secretary Cranefield at once. 
We need at least one hundred 
women. Last year we were able 
to locate only a few. Women are 
the very best of garden advisors. 
We need helpers from small com- 
munities as well as from the larger 
places. We need advisors from 
the country as well as from the 
city. The lists are open ! Who 
will be first? 
If you are sure you cannot 
qualify as a garden advisor please 
name some one who can. It is 
not essential that the one named 
be a member of the society, we 
want volunteers wherever they may 
be found. 
If you must sweeten breakfast 
cereals, try figs, dates, raisins, sir- 
up or a light sprinkling of maple 
sugar. 
Replace white sugar candies with 
sirup candies, or sweets made from 
figs, dates, and raisins combined 
with nuts. 
