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WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
January, 1918 
THE ANNUAL CONVENTION 
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plenty of excellent fruit estab- 
lishes a higher average price level 
to start with. The other point is 
that consumption and demand are 
always greater and more even when 
an abundance of high-grade stock 
is on the market for the public to 
admire and buy more generally 
and readily. 
Strawberry culture, particularly 
that of the late varieties, was dis- 
cussed by M. S. Kellogg, Janes- 
ville. These ever-bearing, “double- 
barreled” varieties will yield a 
late summer crop of excellent qual- 
ity with the proper care. They 
have probably shown success as a 
home garden crop rather than a 
commercial proposition in Wiscon- 
sin thus far in the trials, Mr. Kel- 
logg stated. Their backwardness 
in securing public favor as a de- 
pendable commercial crop was laid 
to the strong competition which 
the everbearing kinds must face in 
a market glutted with peaches, 
pears and early apples. From 
now on the success of the everbear- 
ing kinds depends solely upon a 
vigorous campaign of education, 
to set the public at rest as to their 
merits and calling the housewives’ 
attention to the fact that all home- 
grown strawberries are not gone 
by the second week in July. Mr. 
Kellogg also urged farmers to con- 
sider small fruits more carefully 
next spring, as they would aid the 
sum total of food production on 
odd corners of the farm at little 
expense in time and a relatively 
small labor outlay, results in aver- 
age seasons considered. 
The best varieties, honesty and 
care in packing — with or without 
a state law — were the maxims for 
successful commercial apple pro- 
duction set forth by A. K. Bassett, 
well-known Baraboo fruit farmer. 
When Mr. Bassett bought his pres- 
ent farm it contained a fifty-year- 
old, neglected orchard. He cleaned, 
renovated, sprayed and pruned 
and has since set out sixty-five 
acres to apple trees. Although re- 
ceiving an average of $6 a barrel 
this season, f. o. b. Baraboo, for his 
winter stocks, with less valuable 
kinds selling for 75 cents a bushel, 
containers returnable, Mr. Bassett 
complains of labor shortage as a 
drawback to expanding his busi- 
ness just now. His earlier vari- 
eties are the Snow or Fameuse, Mc- 
Intosh, Wealthy, Northwestern 
Greening and the extra early 
Duchess of Oldenburg. For strictly 
winter keeping qualities, he sup- 
plies his trade with Salome, Wind- 
sor, Russett and Tolman Sweet. 
All these he has found adapted to 
south-central Wisconsin conditions 
over a period of ten years. Mail 
order shipments direct to consum- 
ers took 40 per cent of his crop 
this year, and dealers in northern 
and western Wisconsin towns took 
most of the remaining lots. 
Not forgetting the side of home 
life which ministers to the soul, 
and helps to imbue a stronger love 
of country, talks on farmstead 
planning for beauty as well as util- 
ity were given by F. A. Aust and 
Cecil Britt, University of Wiscon- 
sin. Mr. Aust explained the ele- 
ments to be sought in landscape 
architecture, using good, hardy 
Wisconsin vines and shrubs advo- 
cated by the college of agriculture 
and the horticultural society. Mr. 
Britt, a veteran gardener who 
comes from Warwickshire, Eng- 
land, with much lore about rose 
culture, gave the society an inter- 
esting ten-minute talk on the chief 
things which Wisconsin must look 
for in the successful growing of 
the national flower of Albion. 
R. H. Roberts, of the university 
horticultural department, in his 
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