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WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
October, 1918 
the boys and girls to scour the 
woods for nuts and incite your pa- 
triotic organizations to rivalry in 
making collections. See that the 
work is started in your neighbor- 
hood. Place collection boxes in 
schools, churches, banks and 
stores, and above all in your own 
home so your boys and girls can 
see the pile grow. It takes two 
hundred peach stones or seven 
pounds of nut shells to furnish 
carbon for a mask and save the 
life of an American soldier. How 
many masks can your neighbor- 
hood furnish? 
Dry the pits and shells before 
turning them in to the nearest 
Red Cross chapter. This organi- 
zation is in charge of collecting all 
material. 
October Garden Work. 
•‘Clean culture plays a most im- 
portant part in the fight which 
must be waged against the insects 
which menace the success of the 
home gardener’s efforts,” say the 
entomologists of the United States 
Department of Agriculture. 
“Cleaning off all the rubbish left 
over from last season’s gardening 
aids materially in reducing the 
numbers of the overwintering 
forms of the insect enemies of the 
vegetable garden, whose activities 
are only too great in any case. 
“Cutworms, which hide in the 
soil in the day time and come out 
at night to feed on the tender 
growth and cut small plants en- 
tirely off, wireworms that damage 
the tubers of potatoes and other 
other root crops, and a host of 
other insects, winter under 
brush and rubbish on the earth or 
a few inches under ground. 
Where they can find protection 
during the cool weather of winter, 
conditions are ideal for their sur- 
vival, and the warm days of the 
spring will bring them out in 
countless numbers to feed upon 
the tender foliage of the young 
garden truck. Neighboring weed 
patches shelter many forms. 
“Leaves, stems, and other lit- 
ter should never be allowed to ac- 
cumulate up to the time of plant- 
ing, or there will be thousands of 
insects the coming year where 
there were hundreds last season. 
Weeds should be cleared up and 
burned, together with all garden 
rubbish. 
“The soil should be thoroughly 
worked over in autumn to destroy 
such insects as may be spending 
the winter on, or a few inches be- 
low, the surface.” 
Wanted, Baldwin Trees in Wis- 
consin. 
The Bureau of Plant Industry 
at Washington, through Prof. 
Close, is endeavoring to locate 
hardy Baldwin apple trees and 
has come to Wisconsin for help. 
Many of the Baldwin orchards in 
the eastern states suffered severe- 
ly last year, although the Baldwin 
is considered iron clad in that sec- 
tion. Owners of Baldwin trees, 
which passed through last winter 
uninjured, please report to this of- 
fice and oblige Prof. Close, who 
writes as follows : 
“We are making an effort to lo- 
cate a hardy Baldwin apple tree 
on its own trunk. As you know, 
the apple and other fruit trees 
were very seriously injured by the 
winter in the northern portions of 
the country and if we can locate a 
Baldwin tree which is real hardy 
it will be an acquisition to apple 
culture. 
I have had some reports on cer- 
tain Baldwin trees which were 
less injured than other Baldwin 
trees standing a short distance 
away, but in each case this differ- 
ence in hardiness could be ac- 
counted for by the locality, soil 
For Sale 
J. E. Baer estate of 40 
acres, known as the “Glad- 
mont Fruit a n d Stock 
Farm.” Every foot is under 
cultivation. Seven acres 
orchard, fine buddings, mac 
adamized road, splendid 
/iew of Baraboo. Two and 
one-half miles southwest of 
Baraboo court house. For 
further information address 
Carl J. Baer 
Baraboo, Wisconsin 
R. F. D. No. 4 
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