January, 1918 
WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
75 
trained on the stone walls of houses 
and lawns. All fruit trees are well 
pruned but spraying is not much 
in evidence. This is of course not 
the spraying season but I have 
seen no spray outfits and the native 
“habitants” shake their heads 
when I ask them, — they have heard 
of it and to them it’s one of the 
strange things of life. In spite of 
the lack of spraying there are com- 
paratively few wormy apples, but 
in the ones I have bitten into the 
worms sem fatter, healthier and 
happier than any I have ever seen 
in America. They taste richer 
too. 
I have the .advantage of speak- 
ing French fairly well and make it 
a point to talk with as many farm- 
ers as possible and it’s really won- 
derful what sacrifices these people 
have made for their country — and 
how they do welcome the Ameri- 
cans! We shall all be like spoiled 
children when we get back. They 
have cows too, but I hope Prof. 
Humphrey and Dean Otis will not 
visit this section for if they should 
they would get the shock of their 
young lives. No ventilation, and 
stables hermetically sealed. No gut- 
ters behind the cows and flanks 
and udders of cows hung with 
caked manure like sleigh bells. 
Otherwise the cattle look sleek and 
fat and resemble a cross between a 
Guernsey and Hereford, giving an 
amount of milk about like a Her- 
eford and beef like a Guernsey. 
The flowers in the dooryards are 
wonderful and not a farmhouse 
without a great splash of color 
and an aroma like a florist’s shop. 
The flowers are mostly annuals. 
I hope you will keep an eye on 
that orchard of mine up at She- 
boygan Falls and please send me 
regularly an extra copy of Wiscon- 
sin Horticulture. 
There are a lot of German war 
prisoners at work around here and 
if I shut my eyes at roll call I can 
make myself believe it’s a roster of 
the Wisconsin Legislature. My 
mailing address is and will be, 
Captain Ernest Gonzenbach, 
16th Engineers, U. S. Army in 
France, 
Care Adjutant General, 
Washington, D. C. 
Mr. Slice 0 ’Bread. 
I am a Slice of Bread. 
I measure three inches by 
two-and-a-half, and my thick- 
ness is half-an-inch. 
My weight is exactly an 
ounce. 
I am wasted once a day by 
48,000,000 people of Britain. 
I am “the bit left over;” 
the slice eaten absent mindedly 
when really I wasn ’t needed ; 
I am the waste crust. 
If you collected me and my 
companions for a whole week 
you would find that we 
amounted to 9,380 tons of good 
bread — 
WASTED ! 
Two Shiploads of Good 
Bread ! 
Almost as much — striking 
an average — as twenty Ger- 
man Submarines could sink — 
even if they had good luck. 
When you throw me away 
or waste me you are adding 
twenty submarines to the Ger- 
man Navy. 
(Copy of handbill sent out by 
National War Savings Committee, 
England.) For the United States 
multiply this by 2 ^. — Editor. 
Sweeten fruit drinks with honey 
or corn sirup. 
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varieties suited to j 
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Shade Trees, Wind- 
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AGENTS WANTED !! 
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Lake City, Minnesota 
The Hawks 
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Company 
are in a position to 
furnish high grade 
Nursery Stock of all 
kinds and varieties 
suitable to Wiscon- 
sin and other north- 
ern districts. 
Will be glad to fig- 
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either in large or 
samll quantities. 
Wauwatosa, Wis. 
