The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1321 
A Wisconsin Wild Flower 
Garden 
I have a wild flower garden which 
has been a source of much enjoy¬ 
ment to me. Our house faces the north, 
with a porch over the front door, the 
situation being ideal for many wild flow¬ 
ers, which grow best where they are 
shaded at least from the noonday sun. 
On the east end of the porch I planted 
12 years ago a bittersweet vine; my de¬ 
sire was to keep the morning sun from 
the porch, making a pleasant place to 
sit with my work, and I also thought the 
berries on the vine in the Fall would add 
beauty to our home, but, alas! I was dis¬ 
appointed in the latter desire for although 
the vine is a solid mat of foliage over the 
entire east end of porch, and has also 
crept around the corner and is climbing 
along for several feet on the north side, 
the berries are minus almost entirely. It 
blooms very full in the Spring but the 
berries are only one on a stem, and very 
scattering even at that. 
I have a wild blue flag which was 
planted several years ago in the corner 
where a conductor brings the water to 
the ground from the porch roof, which 
keeps the soil always moist, therefore 
suitable for a marsh plant. I have many 
Hepaticas which I dug in the nearby 
woods in the Spring when they were in 
full bloom, and transplanted to my “wild 
flower garden.” Some are pink, some are 
a pale blue, and many are the bluest of 
blues like the sky on a clear June day. 
The wild honeysuckle, the black-eyed 
Susans, bloom for me every year; the 
bloodroot and wild turnip or Jack-in-tlie- 
pulpit come each year in their season, 
and big ferns, maiden-hair and other va¬ 
rieties which I cannot name, make it look 
quite woodsy. 
I have the wild Phlox, or some call it 
“niche-a-niddy,” the Trilliums both red 
and white, the shooting-stars, and the 
Virginia Spring beauty. And dearest to 
me of all wild flowers, for years I have 
the yellow lady’s slipper or moccasin 
flower. There could be none found in 
the woods now, for we live only 20 miles 
from the city of Milwaukee, Wis., and 
cue branch of the Milwaukee Electric 
Railway taps this section, and brings 
many people from the city from early 
in Spring until late in Fall, to wander 
over the farms in search of flowers, mush¬ 
rooms, rabbits, etc. 
The pitcher plant formerly grew in this 
vicinity but whether any plants could be 
found now I do not know. We have the 
wild Dielytra or “Dutchman’s breeches," 
the wild Clematis and also woodbine 
Years ago our river (the Little Fox) was 
covered with white water lilies in June, 
but they have almost disappeared: 
whether carp (which the river is filled 
with now) have eaten the roots, or 
whether the hard Winter several years 
ago froze so deeply it spoiled the roots, 
we do not know. 
We had the “devil’s paintbrush” in our 
orchard years ago. I tried transplant¬ 
ing that to garden but did not succeed 
in making it live in the garden by the 
house. 
The meadow lily blooms beautifully 
by the house, having the first years after 
transplanting many more blossoms to a 
stalk than when growing wild; sometimes 
as many as 17 blooms, but rarely sc 
many. 
We have the black cherry growing by 
the roadside and in pastures; some use 
the fruit for jelly. We also have the 
choke cherry, and a few days ago a boy 
came to the door to ask if they could 
pick the choke cherries by the roadside. 
We gave them the privilege of picking, 
but I certainly wondered what they were 
going to do with them; whether they 
knew some way of making them pala¬ 
table I do not knotv. So many times 
strangers come along in an auto and 
gather anything like that without ask¬ 
ing. that we were glad to have them ask 
and gave a willing consent. 
Wisconsin’s-corn crop is far from ripe, 
and yet these cold days the first part of 
September make us think of frost. We 
will still hope for more warm days, for 
it has been such a cold Summer that we 
really feel entitled to more warm weather 
before Winter comes. 
We have shellbark hickories, butternuts 
and black walnuts growing .naturally 
here, and we used to have red. gray, 
black and fox squirrels, but the hunters 
from the cities have nearly exterminated 
squirrels of all kinds. We have many 
acres of timber yet, a sugar bush, and 
of course, woodchucks and raccoons; they 
do much damage in our vegetable gar¬ 
den, and the latter in the sweet corn, 
there being no open season for raccoons. 
X. L. M. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC. — Margaret M. Burnet, 
appointed, at New York, special attorney 
to the Department of Justice, assigned to 
the Customs Division, is the first woman 
to receive a prominent position in the 
Customs Department. Miss Burnet will 
represent the government in custom cases 
tried before the Board of Appraisers. _ A 
member of the firm of Burnet & Smith, 
2 SO Broadway, Miss Burnet has been en¬ 
gaged in the general practice of the law 
for 20 years. 
Sir William Price, multi-millionaire 
lumberman and newsprint manufacturer, 
and one of the most prominent men in 
Canada, was killed Oct. 2 in a landslide 
at Kenogami, Quebec. The accident, 
caused by recent heavy rains, occurred 
on the property of Price Brothers Com¬ 
pany, of which he was president. 
More than a score of men were injured 
and 13 arrests were made Oct. 6, Pater¬ 
son. N. J., when a crowd of 2,000 striking 
silk workers, refused police authority to 
conduct a meeting at Turn Hall, marched 
up Market Street, Paterson’s main thor¬ 
oughfare, and for more than a half hour 
battled with several hundred officers. 
Fists and heavy clubs were the main in¬ 
struments of attack. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The unre¬ 
stricted movement of farm products from 
the area quarantined because of the Jap¬ 
anese beetle in interstate movement on 
and after Oct. 1, and until June 15, 1025. 
is to be permitted by the Department of 
Agriculture. It is pointed out that the 
active period of this pest has ceased for 
this season, and that it is, therefore, safe 
to permit the freer movement of these 
products. 
A box of Dahlia blooms sent by air¬ 
mail from San Francisco to New York 
recently was delivered in perfect condi¬ 
tion after transportation by 14 different 
planes, and the Post Office Department 
is proud of the accomplishment. The box 
of blooms was sent on the morning of 
Sept. 23 and delivered to Mrs. Charles 
II. Stout of Cliarlecote, Short Hills. N. 
,T.. at the show of the American Dahlia 
Society in the 71st Regiment Armory 
the evening of the next day. 
The wheat crop this year will return 
to the American grower about one billion 
dollars in cash at country points, Manag¬ 
ing Director Meyer of the War Finance 
Corporation told Secretary Mellon Oct. 
2. Ills statement was on the basis of an 
investigation in the wheat producing 
areas. In a memorandum to the Treas¬ 
ury head Meyer declared also that rail¬ 
road transportation was handling the 
crop in a manner “almost without prece¬ 
dent.” 
Sheep growers in New York State who 
are selling their wool co-operatively are 
getting the most satisfactory prices ever 
received at this period of the year. 
Prices f. o. b. the warehouse of the New 
York State Sheep Growers’ Co-operative 
Association at Syracuse are as follows: 
% combing, 54c; % clothiqg, 4Sc; % 
combing, 52c; % clothing, 44c; low and 
common, 40c; rejects, 38c, tags. 18c. 
Sales to local dealers during April. May 
and June brought only 30 to 42c per 
pound. The 1924 wool pool will exceed 
that of 1923 by several thousand pounds. 
On September 1 it amounted to over 470,- 
000 pounds. 
The Council for American Agriculture 
held a closed-door session at Chicago, 
Oct. 0. for the purpose of outlining farm 
legislation at the coming session of the 
new Congress. Chairman George Peek 
was anxious that all farm organizations 
reach an agreement on the form of legis¬ 
lation. Bernard M. Baruch of New York 
made a short statement of his views. The 
idea appears to prevail that a bill to 
supplant the McNary-IIaugen bill should 
be agreed upon by all the farm organiza¬ 
tions. The action of President Coolidge 
appointing a commission to investigate 
the whole farm question and base legisla¬ 
tion on the findings of the commission 
was up for consideration. 
CONTENTS 
.— 1 1 — 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, OCT. 18, 1924 
FARM TOPICS 
Farming Both Ents of the Country.. 1317, 1313 
Satisfactory Cover Crop in Corn .1318 
Hope Farm Notes . 1326 
Limestone in Ohio . 1326 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Feeding- Guernsey Bull . 1322 
Dairy Conditions . 1922 
An Important Legal Milk Decision . 1329 
Indigestion in Horse . 1332 
Dropped Sole .. 1332 
Vermin on Dogs . 1332 
Fine-wooled Sheep . 1335 
Docking Old Sheep . 1335 
Bees in House; Cow Owner’s Share; Cool¬ 
ing Milk .. 1335 
THE HENYARD 
New York State Egg-laying Contest . 1337 
Feed Formula at Egg-laying Contest . 1337 
HORTICULTURE 
The “Garden Huckleberry” is a Night¬ 
shade . 1318 
Notes on Everbearing Strawberries . 1318 
Improving a Poor Lawn . 1320 
Ground for Strawberries . 1325 
Winter Storage of Gladiolus, Canna and 
Dahlia Roots . 1325 
Propagating Rubber Plant; Wintering Ger¬ 
aniums . 1325 
The Chayote . 1326 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day . 1330 
Uncooked Mangoes . 1330 
The Rural Patterns . 1330 
Cheese Savories . 1330 
Using Sweet Apples . 1331 
Texas Notes . 1331 
Raisin Pie . 1331 
MISCELLANEOUS 
The Prize Spellers . 1318 
How Radio Works, Part II . 1319 
Domesticated Woodchucks, Their Meat 
1319, 1320 
The Orange Garden Spider . 1320 
Florida Man Talks . 1326 
Editorials . 1328 
Taxpayers and Public Improvements . 1329 
A Proposed School Bill . 1329 
The Farm Bureau and the Child Labor 
Amendment . 1329 
A Taxpayers’ League . 1329 
Publisher’s Desk . 1338 
Ihis I mproved Celety 
'Brings the High Price 
AMERICAN GOLDEN 
SELF-BLANCHING CELERY 
BLIGHT and RUST RESISTANT 
Authorities pronounce this the best 
golden self-blanching. Matures two to 
three weeks before others and blanches 
in half the time. It is a money-maker for 
growers. Large, crisp, tender. No strings. 
Broad stalk, fast growing heart. Does 
not grow hollow and all of it including 
the foliage is good eating. Grows just 
tall enough to pack in crate without injur¬ 
ing foliage and right size for the table. 
Seed of this variety has been sold 
under the name of “Special Golden,” 
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$80.00 per pound. 
Price $2.50 per ounce, $25.00 per pound. 
Orders accepted in rotation as received until 
supply is exhausted. Seed is WARRANTED 
true, fresh, clean and of good germination. 
Approved by such authorities as Prof. 
Homer G. Thompson, New York Experiment 
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