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WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
February, 1918 
A Worth While Garden 
Stories about big gardens or big 
stories about little gardens are al- 
ways interesting and sometimes 
helpful. Usually on investigation 
it is found that the 24 dollar gar- 
den was produced at a cost of 
about $117.83 plus gasoline. Many 
of the successful ( ?) amateur gar- 
deners of 1917 made the trips be- 
tween home and garden in a three 
or five thousand dollar automo- 
bile. 
The following, however, seems 
to be a horse of another color. 
Mrs Strong of West Allis secured 
these figures from Mrs. Stolte, 
who made the garden and declares 
that there was no horse or auto- 
mobile or even a street car con- 
nected with it; that Mrs. Stolte 
was a busy woman aside from gar- 
dening; that she walked a long 
distance to the garden; that green 
lice and other pests were very 
bad; that the soil was only fairly 
good and not well prepared and 
that there was no joy but only 
grief until, — the plants began to 
grow. 
Report on, planting of a lot 60x120 by Mrs. R. E. Stolte. Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, 
Soil; J airly good: 
Name 
Cost of 
seed 
Planted 
Amount 
| Returns 
Valued 
Remarks 
Onions, large red Wethersfield 
$0.25 
April 14 
1 oz 1 
Prizetaker 
.50 
May 5 
2 oz. 1 
Radishes 
.05 
April 14 
1 Pkg. 
10 bunch's 
.25 
Beets, extra early Egyptian 
.10 
“ 
1 pkg 
i pushel 
.80 
Parsnips 
.15 
1 pkg. 
h 
,5U 
Peas. Dreer’s American Wonder . . . 
.20 
1 pint 
3 pecks 
1.80 
Lettuce 
.05 
I pkg. 
2 doz. hds. 
.60 
Early beans 
.30 
May 5 
1 pint 
11 bushel 
3.00 
Peas 
.20 
“ 
1 pint 
2 pecks 
1.20 
Carrots 
.;0 
1 oz. 
2 bushels 
1.60 
Beets, Detroit dark red 
.10 
1 oz. 
h 
.50 
Radishes 
.05 
“ 
1 pkg. 
8 bunches 
.20 
Kohlrabi 
.05 
1 Pkg. 
4 doz. 
.60 
Potatoes, early rose 
2.00 
May 19 
2 pecks 
2 bushels 
3.00 
1 failure on acct. 
western 
4.00 
.1 une 2 
4 pecks 
2 
3. no 
f of green lice 
Beans, Dreer's stringless 
.70 
2 pints 
4 
8.00 
.10 
X doz . 
1.40 
“ 
2 bushels 
3.00 
Peas, telephone 
.30 
June 16 
1 pint 
3 pecks 
1.50 
.10 
j- green lice 
“ 
1 Pkg. 
Evergreen corn 
.25 
i pint 
10 doz. 
1.35 
Golden Bantam corn 
.25 
i pint 
14 doz 
2.10 
Lima beans 
.60 
2 pints 
1 quart 
.20 
summer to dry 
Pole beans 
.30 
1 pint 
4 bushel 
1.00 
Peas, eatable pods 
.30 
July 7 
l pinl 
3 pecks 
1.50 
Beans, wax stringless 
.70 
2 pints 
5 bushels 
9 00 
1.20 
1 .50 
$13.25 
$53765 
Net. ... 
$40.40 
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Shall we encourage or discourage 
it? Shall we say to our friend of 
the letter, “Your type of orchard 
is an injury to yourself and the 
fruit industry. You had better 
cut it down.” Or shall we say, 
“Your orchard under your awak- 
ened interest in better manage- 
ment may do its part in a greater 
and better fruit industry in Wis- 
consin ? ? ’ 
A dry house atmosphere is not 
desirable to live in and it will not 
permit the raising of good house 
plants. Plants must not be kept 
too dry or warm. Fresh air is es- 
sential to them as well as to hu- 
man beings. 
Orchard trees may be pruned on 
warm days in late winter if the 
snow is not too deep. 
McKAY NURSERY 
COMPANY 
MADISON, WISCONSIN 
Nursery Stock of 
Quality 
for Particular Buyers 
Have all the standard varieties 
as well as the newer sorts. Can 
supply you with everything in 
Fruit Trees, Small Fruits, 
Vines and Ornamentals. 
Let us suggest what to plant 
both in Orchard and in the 
decoration of your grounds. 
Prices and our new Catalog 
sent promptly upon receipt of 
your list of wants. 
Nurseries at 
Waterloo, Wis. 
Free! 
A 50-gallon barrel 
of Scalecide free to 
h fungicide // any any one who 
will suggest st fairer 
guarantee than that 
_ — - given below. 
“SCALECIDE” 
As proofof our confidence and to strength- 
en yours, we will make the following 
proposition to any fruit grower of average 
honesty and veracity: 
Divide your orchard in half, nomatter how 
or small. Spray one-half with “SCALECIDE , 
and the other with Lime-Sulfur for three years, 
I everything else being equal. If at the end of that 
time, three disinterested fruit growers say that 
the part sprayed with “SCALECIDE” is not in 
every way better than that sprayed with Lime- 
Sulfur, we will return you the money you paid 
us for the “SCALECIDE”. 
Send for new free booklet, 
“ Profits in Fall Spraying”. 
B. G. Pratt Co., MTg Chemists 
50 Church St. Dept.' XI New York 
“We have a Fine Lot 
of Plants for the 
Garden 
SEND FOR LIST 
J. E. MATHEWSON 
SHEBOYGAN, WISCONSIN 
