August, 1919 
WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
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npi I/" • 1 \T 11 WISCONSIN FAVORED 
Ihe Kjckapoo Valley FRUIT DISTRICT 
Our Specialty: Planting and Developing orchards for non-residents 
A few choice tracts for sale. If interested, write us. 
KICKAPOO DEVELOPMENT COMPANY 
GAYS MILLS, WISCONSIN 
most of the workers are at home. 
With a stick make three holes from 
three directions on the edge of the 
nest towards 1 he center. As quickly 
as the stick is withdrawn each 
time, pour in an ounce of the car- 
bon bi-sulphide and immediately 
close with damp earth so that 
neither ants nor gas can come out. 
One or more wet sacks laid over 
the nest will help to hold the fumes. 
Attention Apple Growers 
Professor G. C. St archer, of Au- 
burn, Alabama, has invented a 
simple and efficient fruit sizer that 
can be made at home. We have 
tried for several months to secure 
blueprints and specifications in 
time for publication in July or 
August Wisconsin Horticulture 
but without success. 
Both prints and specifications 
may be had from Professor 
Starcher for one dollar and the 
materials cost about twelve dol- 
lars. 
This sizer or apple grader gives 
as good or better service than 
many of the higher priced ma- 
chines and can be made by any- 
one who can handle a hammer and 
saw. The purpose of this para- 
graph is to urge every apple 
grower in Wisconsin to send a 
dollar for the blue prints and spe- 
cifications at once. You will never 
regret the investment. 
If the home vegetable garden has 
been well tended to date there is 
nothing to do from now on, — ex- 
cept gather crops. 
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| Native Plum Small Fruits | 
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| for Wisconsin Planters. Read | 
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62nd Year 
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t Box 77, Janesville, Wis. £ 
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Look Out for New Corn Borer 
By S. B. Fracker Acting State 
Entomologist 
How profitable will corn raising 
be when the crop has to be sprayed 
and protected as carefully as po- 
tatoes ? 
This is a question which may 
well agitate anyone interested in 
the prosperity of the corn belt. The 
situation may be even more serious 
than the question suggests for the 
European corn borer whose intro- 
duction is feared can do as much 
damage to corn and many other 
crops as the Colorado Potato Beetle 
does to potatoes and no successful 
control has yet been devised. 
During July, 1917, a field of 
corn near Boston, Massachusetts, 
was found infested with light col- 
ored catterpillars boriug in the 
stalks and ears. Later the in- 
sects were identified as the Euro- 
pean corn borer ( Pyra-usta nubila- 
lis and were found over a terri- 
tory of about 320 square miles iv 
Massachusetts and covering two 
smaller areas in New York State. 
They are spreading rapidly. 
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. 
The 
Jewell Nursery 
Company 
Lake City, Minn. 
J. M. UNDERWOOD, 
Founder and Pres. 
Established 1868 
Fifty Years 
Continuous 
Service 
A Complete Stock 
of Fruit, Shelter 
a it d Ornamental 
Stock i n Hardy 
Varieties for 
Northern Plant- 
ers. 
Agents Wanted 
