GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
Copyright 1913 by R. M. Kellofig Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
BRANDYWINE, MALE OR BISEXUAL -LATE 
ITOR twenty-one years we have carried this universally popular variety upon our lists, and in regions virhere it has been grown 
r the longest it still remains the most popular. This variety grows very large quantities of big berries, which are deep blood- 
red from the circumference to the center. Not only are they beautiful in form and color, but they possess a flavor peculiarly 
delightful. Prominent bright yellow seeds make a fine color contrast, and this renders Brandywine most attractive when 
neatly packed for market. All along the Pacific Coast, in the highest elevations of the Rocky Mountains, on the plains of 
Kansas and Oklahoma, and along the Atlantic seaboard. Brandywine has won and holds a unique place in the estimate of 
strawberry growers. The foliage of this variety is very large, upright in form, with dark-green, leathery leaves, affording 
excellent protection to the bloom. Brandywine always is worthy of a good order from all our customers. Grown at all farms. 
What Visitors Say of the Kellogg Farms 
EVERY year great numbers of visitors come 
to see our farms at Three Rivers, and not 
only do we welcome those who come, but 
extend a hearty invitation to all who can do so to 
come and see us. Never yet has a visitor gone 
away who did not express his surprise or pleasure * 
at the work we are doing here and confidence in 
the results of that work. From a few of those 
who came to see us in 1913 we herewith quote 
their written words: 
Cannot Do the Subject Justice 
Henning. III., July 8. 1913. 
R, M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
Gentlemen: I find it quite impossible to do justice to your 
model farm, which so greatly impressed me upon the occasion 
of my recent visit. Just imagine a beautiful level field of 225 
acres, with an immense area devoted to the growing of straw- 
berry plants, with rows so straight and even that the eye can- 
not detect the least crook in them, and not a clod or weed in 
eight, and you will have a fairly good mental picture of this 
ideal scene. Then to see the carloads of fertilizer, the spray- 
ing machines at work, the many and varied forms of machin- 
ery at work and the number of men employed— it makes one 
wonder how you ever meet the enormous expense involved in 
getting these plants ready for shipment. However, a fair 
profit and the very best strawberry plants it is possible to 
raise seem to be the two ideas kept continuously in mind by 
the management. 
I wish to express my especial appreciation of the courtesies 
extended by President Beatty, who showed great interest in 
taking me over the farm and in explaining matters. A day's 
visit with him and a trip over the farm will pay anyone inter- 
ested in "great crops of strawberries and how to grow them.'* 
Very truly yours, 
J. H. PUTMAN. 
Systematic and Scientific 
JoLiET. 111., July 12, 1913. 
R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
Gentlemen: Having returned from my delightful visit to 
your strawberry farm at Three Rivers, I feel that I owe it to 
you to tell you of the great pleasure it gave me to go over that 
very remarkable farm of yours. I found it to be the most 
systematic and scientifically handled farm 1 ever have seen. 
I now can understand why plants always arrive true to name 
and in the highest state of perfection. With your careful 
system it would seem impossible that there could be any mis- 
take in the way of mixing varieties. My only regret is that 
my time was limited, for I should have enjoyed another day 
upon the great Kellogg farm very much, and know that as a 
strawberry grower it would have been of great value to me. 
I hope to visit you again. 
Thanking you for the courtesies extended me, I remain^ 
Very truly yours, 
H. S. Fletcher. 
Kelloss's a World Beater 
Fort Wayne, Ind.. July 3, 1913. 
R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
I wish to thank you for your most courteous treatment dur- 
ing our recent visit to the R. M. Kellogg farm, not only to 
myself, but to Mrs. Polhamus. and our men who were with me. 
Your strawberry farm is sure a world beater, and nowhere 
in my travels, in all sections of the United States, as well as 
Canada and Mexico, have I seen such care, order and scien- 
tific methods employed, as at the Kellogg strawberry farm, 
every inch of which is as clean and well kept as the finest 
parlor I ever have seen. Certainly, if strawberry growers 
everywhere really knew the methods employed, and the value 
of the Kellogg plants, they would not consider placing their 
orders for plants anywhere else, and would be governed abso- 
lutely by your advice in the care and culture of their plants. 
While at Three Rivers, we were impressed by the fact that 
all of the Three Rivers people took great pride in the Kellogg 
farm. This fact in itself speaks volumes for the members of 
your company, and your up-to-date methods. The memory of 
our visit to your place will remain with us a long time, and 
we hope to have the pleasure of calling on you again at some 
future date. Yours with best wishes. 
A. Z. Polhamus. 
Found Everything Just as Represented 
Lincoln. R. I., June 30, 1913. 
R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers. Mich. 
Gentlemen: I recall with great pleasure my visit to your 
farm on the 25th of the present month. I must say that there 
is not a claim that you have made in your book that I did not 
find perfectly substantiated upon your farm. I consider the 
R. M. Kellogg Co.'s strawberry farm one of the greatest hor- 
ticultural sights I ever have seen or expect to see. 1 noted 
the great care with which every detail of your work is carried 
on, and then I understood why it is that of all the strawberry 
plants I ever have purchased those which came fi*om you have 
given me the most satisfactory results. 
1 am very glad that I reached your farm before those mag- 
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