LEAMON G. TINGLE, PYTTSVILLE, MD. 


KELLOGG *S PRIZE—A Wonderful Producer of Extra Fancy Fruit 
KELLOGG’S PRIZE. 
introduced by the R. M. Kellogg Co. and I am using a part of their description. 
‘‘In describing this extraordinary variety we would not, indeed we could not over- 
draw its splendid qualities. Greatly impressed with it as we were when we first 
saw it, because of its magnificent foliage, its splendid vigor and beauty, it was the 
vision of it in full fruit in our test block in 1911 that caused enthusiasm to break 
all bounds. The test was in competition with 60 others, among them several mag- 
nificent varieties; but none of them approached in beauty and real quality the 
Kellogg’s Prize. In 1912 we tested our prize in competition with 120 other varie- 
ties. made up of all the leading standard sorts and about sixty of the most promising 
recent originations, but Kellogg’s Prize stood ‘‘Head and shoulders’’ above every- 
thing else in the block. Then it was decided to secure all the rights in this marvel 
of the strawberry world and President Beatty at once proceeded to LaGrange, IIl., 
where it was fruiting. Mr. Beatty says—I was first shown a one-year-old bed of 
plants from which they were making their first picking June 18th. I parted the 
tall heavy foliage and looked down into the center of the plants and witnessed the 
greatest display of fancy strawberries I have ever seen. The berries are actually 
as large as hen’s eggs, nearly all perfectly top-shaped and piled in windrows about 
the plants. It is no exaggeration to say that the berries in that field would make 
8,000 quarts per acre, and this I consider a modest estimate. IJ was then taken to 
another farm, about two miles distant, where the Prize was growing in somewhat 
different soil from the other field. I was there shown a block of plants which 
were fruiting their second year, and these were much more heavily loaded than 
were the one-year-old plants. A second block in this field was bearing the third 
crop, and this was even more productive, and in still another block were plants 
that were in the fourth year of bearing, and these were by far the heaviest fruit- 
ers of all, and I believe would yield 12,000 quarts of fancy berries per acre. In 
short, each year of growth not only increases the fruit, but increases the size of 
the berries, and the four-year-old plants yielded the largest berries and the largest 
quantities of berries I have ever seen in all my years experience as a strawberry 
grower. It isa pistillate variety and yields a continuous supply of fruit from early 
to very late. The berries are very highly colored, with golden seeds, the rich 
color extending to the center. Flavor is surpassingly delicious. Unexceiled as a 
shipper. Under the shade made by its abundant foliage the berries ripen without 
a suggestion of sun scald’’ 
