THE STRAWBERRY MARCH 1906 



"Good Enough" is Not Good Enough 



WHEN IT COMES TO STRAWBERRY PLANTS 



Only the Best Will Pay 



That is Why You Should Set the Kellogg Strain of 



Thoroughbred Pedigree Plants 



THEY ARE THE BEST 



BECA USE they are selected from the mother plants that have won the world's greatest Fruiting record. 

 B£C4£/SE they have been scientiflcally sprayed, which insures you against destructive insects or 

 fungous spores. 



BEC/1 USE they are carefully mulched before freezing, insuring a well-calloused root and perfectly 



dormant plant. Every one of them will grow if properly set out. 

 BECA USE they will produce more berries from one acre than two acres will grow from the "other kind" 



YOU cannot afford to give up your valuable land and put a lot of hard work on poorly developed plants just because they 

 are cheap. The cheapest plants are those which have a perfect balance in fruit and foliage—the kind that produce the 

 big paying crops. If you want this kind of plants you must send us your order at once, as our old customers, who 

 have used our plants for years and know the value of our pedigree plants, are ordering heavier this season than ever before 

 and we are sure that our entire stock of plants, the largest and best ever grown, will be engaged long before setting time! 



If you are undecided as to varieties, or do not know hoiv to mate them, our expert will assist you to make the best 

 selection for your soil, climate and particular purpose. Tell us whether you intend them for market or for home use. 



R. M. Kellogg Company, i is Pomge Ave., Three Rivers, Mich. 



a mistake by planting Excelsior, Texas, 

 Warfieid, Splendid, Senator Dunlap, 

 Haverland, Gandy, Dornan, and Sample. 

 This will give you from the very earliest 

 to the latest. 



C. C. J., Colusa, Calif. — In examining my 

 strawberry bed December 31 found a number 

 of the plants in bloom. Will this affect my 

 crop at the regular fruiting time? 



The fact that your plants have bloomed 

 out of season will not affect results at 

 cropping time, as these blooms come 

 from buds that were backward and did 

 not develop at the proper time. It never 

 occurs to an extent sufficient to weaken 

 the plant. We have had our fields 

 bloom quite heavily in the fall, many of 

 them maturing into berries, and the fol- 

 lowing summer harvested the largest crop 

 we have ever taken from an acre. As a 

 rule this out-of-season blooming indicates 

 great vigor in the plants. 



C. H. B. Nelson, B. C— Can the Glen Mary 

 (bisexual) be planted successfully by itself, or 

 does it require some other variety — a medium 

 pistillate — to be planted with it? 



Although the Glen Mary is a bisexual, 

 some of its bloom is deficient in pollen. 

 It will give good results when set alone. 



but the yield may be greatly increased by 

 setting such strong pollenizers as Parsons' 

 Beauty, Senator Dunlap or Ridgeway 

 every fourth row. These are all bisexuals; 

 a pistillate will not aid a bisexual; the 

 pistillates depend upon the bisexuals for 

 their fruiting power. But there is no 

 doubt, we believe, but that a deficient bi- 

 sexual will be greatly aided by being sur- 

 rounded by other bisexuals of strong pol- 

 lenizing power. 



D. A. S., Cardinal, Ont. — I have about one 

 acre of land along the river. It has good 

 drainage. It was planted to potatoes during 

 the last two years, and it received a good 

 coat of manure both seasons. Should I plow 

 this piece of ground in the fall and again in 

 the spring? 2. What would it cost me to 

 set this acre to strawberries? 



1. Potatoes are an ideal crop to grow 

 in advance of strawberries. As this soil 

 has had two coats of manure it should 

 give a large yield of fruit. Where 

 ground is plowed in the fall it is unneces- 

 sary to replovv it in the spring, unless it 

 be heavy clay soil. But when not re- 

 plowed it should be chopped up with the 

 disc and harrowed until thoroughly fine. 



2 You should put out 7,000 plants 

 on this acre, and of course it will not pay 

 to set any but strong and vigorous plants. 



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The cost for these will depend somewhat 

 upon the varieties selected, and ranges 

 from $3.50 to $8.00 per thousand. One 

 man easily will set this number in from 

 three to four days, if he has the proper 

 tools. 



E. B. G., Bazaar, Kan. — I send you in this 

 mail a small box in which I have enclosed a 

 few dead leaves from my strawberry plants 

 for your inspection. This summer and fall 

 some of the leaves looked as if they had frost 

 on them, and as I have never raised strawber- 

 ries I did not know what it was, but feared it 

 was rust, and ask you to let me know whether 

 that is the case or not and what the treatment 

 for whatever it is, if any is needed. 



We have carefully examined the leaves 

 sent us and find that they are affected 

 with mildew and rust. These are fung- 

 ous growths that spread by spores. 

 They are controlled by the use of Bor- 

 deaux mixture which should be applied 

 early in the spring. Bordeaux mixture 

 is not a cure, merely a preventive, which 

 acts on the leaves somewhat as vaccina- 

 tion acts on the patient to keep him im- 

 mune from small-pox. We start spray- 

 ing as soon as the plants begin to grow 

 in the spring and continue until fall, and 

 have no difficulty in keeping these en- 

 emies out of the fields. 



