Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-02-20

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Wisconsin Horticultural Meeting.
The annual meeting Of the Wiscon-
sin State Horticultural Association
will be held in the capitol at Madison
February 8 to 6. That the convention
will be q good one is assured by the
program which contains the follow
ing:
New varieties Of apples-F. H.
Chapel; Apples Safe to Plant IN
Wisconsin, A. C. Tuttle; Crab Seed
lings for Apple Root Crafts, A. d.
Barnes; Commercial Orcharding IN
Wisconsin. ]. G. Buehler; Commercial
Orcharding, Geo. T. Tippin; Failure
Of Apples, A. ]. Phillips; Seedlings
to Grow and Test, F. X. Phoenix;
Pollination, G. L. Miller; Vegetable
Growing Under Glass, A. G. Mclean;
Care of the Farm Orchard, ]. G. Shot
tier; Starting a Young Orchard,
Bonzelet; Our Native Plums, Frank
Stark; Blight, Frederick Cranefield;
Plant Breeding, A. T. Irwin; Tree Dig
ging, M. s. Kellogg; Growing Vegeta-
bles, John Vanloon; Strawberry Gull
ture, ]. P. Reasoner; How to Grow
Pears, ]. L. Schultz. We hope to see
many readers of the Farmers Review
present at the meeting.
Temperature in Cream Ripening.
Oscar Err: In the ripening OF
cream we prefer to separate cream
very rich, about 80 to 35 per cent, and
thin, down to rs per cent, with clean
favored starter. Theoretically we as
sumo that the more Of the tainted
skimmilk we can get out Of the cream
and replace it with a starter, the bet
ter results we will have. This plan
bears out we'll in practice. A certain
temperature for ripening cream seems
to have little effect on the flavor, pro-
vided the cream is ripened above 20
degrees and below 30 degrees F. The
ripening is, however, much fastened
by high temperature. A satisfactory
temperature is from IS degrees to ~
degrees for summer, and from 70 de-
grees to 80 degrees for winter. The
cream should be stirred occasionally
during the ripening process. This Is
essential for several reasons. 1t
aerates the cream, insures evenness in
ripening, prevents the surface from
drying-which is one of the causes OF
notified butter-and furnishes free
oxygen to aerobic germs, which seem
to play a part in the ripening process.
F. w. Taylor Chief of Horticulture.
A communication from the Louisi-
ana Purchase Exposition says: An
nouncement is made by the Executive
Committee of the Worlds Fair to be
held in st. Louis in 1904, that Mr..
Frederic w. Taylor, who has been
acting chief for the past year, is to
be chief of the department OF horti-
culture dating from January l. This
in addition to the appointment made
more than q year ago by which Mr..
Taylor has been and is to continue
chief of the department of agriculture.
It seems desirable to have these two
great departments handled as har'
monious whole, since the buildings to
house them are located upon and &C.
cupy exclusively large and high hill
in the most commanding position on
the exposition grounds. The building
devoted to horticulture will cover six
acres and the one devoted to agricul-
ture twenty acres. Surrounding these
two buildings are forty-one acres OF
ground, the entire area Of which has
been placed in the hands Of the chief
for planting and treatment.