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WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
July, 1918 
HARDY OLD FASHIONED PLANTS 
OUR SPECIALTY 
The best varieties for Wisconsin conditions, carefully grown and 
carefully packed. Write for prices 
WILLIAM TOOLE & SON 
Hardy Plant and Pansy Farm 
Baraboo, Wis. 
Fio. 1 FlO 2 Flo 3 
BERRY BOXES 
Crates, Bushel Boxes 
and Climax Baskets 
As You Like Them 
We manufacture the Ewald Patent 
Folding Berry Boxes of wood veneer 
that give satisfaction. Berry box and 
crate material in the K. D. in carload 
lots our specialty. We constantly carry 
in stock 16 quart crates all made up 
ready for use, either for strawberries or 
blueberries. No order too small or too 
large for us to handle. We can ship the 
folding boxes and crates in K. D. from 
Milwaukee. Promptness is essential in 
handling fruit, and we aim to do our 
part well. A large discount for early 
orders. A postal brings our price list. 
Cumberland Fruit Package 
Company 
Dept. D, Cumberland, Wis. 
a place with a little light so he can 
Sanitary Fruit Picker 
PICKS 
Fruit of all Kinds 
QUICKLY, CLEANLY AND 
EFFICIENTLY 
They Need No Amusement. 
Every evening, in a million Am- 
erican homes, a well-fed, amiable 
family group rises from cheerful 
dinner tallies to vote on the ques- 
tions, “Where shall we spend the 
evening? What shall we do for 
amusement?” The day’s work is 
done and we need relaxation. So 
many things beckon — -movies, thea- 
ter, a war-lecture, a motor-ricle, 
cards, dancing, or a peaceful loaf 
with papers and pipe and knitting. 
Which shall we choose? Life for 
us is so rich with interest, so full 
of comfort and beauty that daily 
w r e make many choices between 
pleasures, between one comfort and 
another. 
An American Y. M. C. A. secre- 
tary is back from France bringing 
a different picture. In a forest 
just back of Verdun is a French 
camp of 30,000 soldiers. They have 
been there three years, under con- 
stant fire, living interminable days 
in cold rain and in mud that sucks 
and clings and filthies them over 
like some vile beast that cannot be 
thrown off. 
In recent months, the French 
Red Cross has built a crude lmt in 
the camp and the American Y. M. 
C. A. has loaned two secretaries for 
work there. The hut is rather 
bare of furniture. There are lights 
and a stove, chairs, tallies and writ- 
ing materials, and that is about 
all, no graphaphones, no piano, no 
books. A visitor inquired pity- 
ingly, “But what do you do to keep 
these men entertained ? ’ ’ 
Silence a minute and then the 
reply ringing across the world to 
us by our fires and at the movies, 
and the restaurant tables : 
“The French soldier this fourth 
winter of war does not need enter- 
tainment. All he wants is a place 
a little dry, a place a little warm, 
just rest, rest, rest.” 
What shall we do for amusement 
this evening? Well, for one thing 
let’s write a check for the Red 
Cross, and another for the Y. M. 
C. A. — and gather up some of our 
books and write some letters to sol- 
diers. And then let us go on our 
knees to ask forgiveness if we for- 
get in our amusements those who 
give their souls and bodies for us, 
asking — no, not even asking in re- 
turn an hour a day in “a place a 
little warm, and dry, and bright.” 
Editorial Wisconsin State Journal. 
Don't buy a Step Ladder. Buy 
one of these FRUIT PICKERS 
and get all the fruit from the tops 
of your trees. 
The Greatest Little Invention of 
the Age 
Price $5 
Postpaid anywhere in the U. S. 
Address 
E. R. STODDART, Patentee 
Markesan, Wis. 
