March, 1918 
WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
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Personal Items. 
Early in December, 1917, Roy 
M. Potter, one of our youngest 
cranberry growers and Sales Co. 
inspector, enlisted as a truck 
driver. After three weeks at Jef- 
ferson Barracks, Mo., he was sent 
to Kelly Field, Texas. Here the 
boys were put to digging ditches 
— not new work for him as that 
was the last work he did at home. 
He writes “the boys have a little 
song that goes like this — 1 am not 
an aviator, nor an aviator’s son, 
but will handle pick and shovel, 
till the aviators come.” He is 
glad he is not raising cranberries 
in Texas where the days are aw- 
fully warm and the nights very 
cold. Roy was one of sixty chosen 
out of twelve hundred to take up 
Liberty Motor work, and is now 
spending six hours a day studying 
at Dunwoody Institute, Minne- 
apolis, Minn. 
Mr. Earle Pease, V. Pres, of 1st 
Natl. Bank of Grand Rapids, is 
avoiding some of our extremely 
cold weather by spending a few 
weeks with Mrs. Pease who is at 
Lake Worth, Florida, for the win- 
ter. 
We are pleased to notice a win- 
ter visit of Henry H. Gebhardt of 
Black River Falls. His trip ex- 
tended east to Pennsylvania and 
was a very pleasant one. 
As is the usual custom of Mr. 
and All’s. Robert Skeel they are 
spending part of the winter with 
the latter’s parents at Waupaca, 
Wis. 
Pres, and Mrs. Searls and 
daughter, Miss Mayme, are visi- 
tors at Beaver Dam for a short 
time. 
Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Tuttle will 
make their home another year at 
the E. K. Tuttle marsh near Val- 
iev Junction. 
Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Clinton of 
Cranmoor are enjoying the winter 
at the home of their daughter, 
Mrs. Young, in Hydro, Oklahoma. 
Mr. J. B. Arpin of the Arpin 
Cranberry Co., has been south to 
the Gulf states looking after his 
dredging interests. Mrs. Arpin 
and their son, Leon, accompany- 
ing him. Leon decided to remain 
through the summer. 
Mrs. S. A. Warner, formerly of 
Warrens, Wis., but now of Harris, 
Iowa, was called to the home of 
her brother, Robert Regin, at 
Cranmoor to help care for her 
mother, Mrs. Daniel Regin, Sr., 
who has been a sufferer many 
months. 
Pruning. 
That position of the upright of 
the cranberry vine most favorable 
to the formation of the terminal 
fruit bud and especially to the 
development of that bud into a 
good crop of cranberries seems to 
be a position nearly perpendicular 
and as independent and untram- 
meld of its fellows as possible. 
The object of pruning is to get 
the vines into that most favorable 
position, which is also most favor- 
able for gathering the crop with 
the rake or scoop. The tools are a 
common wooden-toothed hand hay 
rake and a similar rake or pruner 
with about four steel teeth instead 
of a dozen wooden ones, and these 
four are sharp edged, slightly 
hooked, short knives. 
The method is first to use the 
hay rake to comb out the vines, 
straighten and even up what is 
twisted or trodden down, and to 
remove rake ends and rubbish and 
to discover superfluous runners 
and useless long vines that grow 
high among the uprights. Next 
use the pruner to cut out the super- 
fluous long vines, carrying the tool 
lightly and evenly thru the up- 
rights (not dragging it) high 
among the tops, twitching the tool 
with quick stroke to right and to 
left, the operator moving back- 
wards, the operation and the wad 
of vines following him — doing a 
strip say five feet wide and as long 
as lie can remember, say thirty 
feet, then another strip and so on. 
We always comb, prune, and rake 
from west to east — the nap of the 
vines seems to demand it. The 
operator should keep his pruner 
sharp, and his wits. It is not 
profitable to cut out roots, nor up- 
rights. 
Pruning is best done after pick- 
ing in the fall, and may be done in 
the spring before sap starts in the 
vines. 
S. N. Whittlesey. 
Bulletins of the War Garden 
Series. 
Two circulars or bulletins of the 
War Garden Series announced in 
the February number, have been 
published and are ready for dis- 
tribution, Getting Ready for the 
War Garden, by Prof. J. G. Moore 
and Seed Sense, edited by F. 
Cranefield. Both are reprinted in 
this number. Copies may be had 
on application to this office or to 
the College of Agriculture. We 
want every one who will plant 
a garden this year to have a 
copy of these as well as the ones 
now in preparation. Ask for 
exactly the number you can dis- 
tribute to good advantage — no 
more, no less. 
