GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
Copyright 1913 by R M. Kellogg Co.. Three Rivers. Mich. 
PRIDE OF MICHIGAN. MALE OR BISEXUAL-LATE 
'T'HIS variety is one of our own orig-inations, and we are very proud of it, for it has won and is still winning: golden opinions 
from those who grow it. We tested out this variety from 1902 to 1905, oflferinfi: it for the first time in the latter year. In 
size the berries surpass all other varieties, and it produces as large a number of fancy berries as any other variety ever de- 
veloped. The berries lie in windrows, and the heavy, immense foliage spreads out wide enough to shade them. It is a fine ship- 
per and excellent canner and stands in a class by itself when placed upon the market. The meat is very firm, exceptionally 
rich and very smooth, and in flavor it is delicious. As a shipper it is unexcelled. Pride of Michigan is famous for its long- 
blooming season, which renders it most valuable for the mating of late pistillates. Grown at Three Rivers and Twin Falls. 
strawberries or give advice to anyone in regard to strawlier- 
ries, I shall always recommend Kellogg's and Kellogg's only. 
"In 1910 I planted Kellogg's plants, and from a space of 
49x60 feet I picked 485 quarts of marketable berries in 1911." 
E. P. Schmidt. 
So much for the experience of one New Eng- 
land customer. It is a far cry from Connecticut 
to Montana, but the same general opinion is ex- 
Eressed by a Montana man who has grown straw- 
erries for many years in several sections of this 
continent. We are glad to be able to have the 
opinion of Wm. J. Gall, gardener of the Bitter 
Root Valley Irrigation Company at Florence, 
Mont. , who wrote us under date of November 25, 
1912 as follows: 
"I wish to say a word about the strawberry plants you 
shipped the Bitter Root Valley Irrigation Company in 19U. 
They grew the best and largest berries ever seen in this local- 
ity, and I may say that I have been raising strawberries for 
thirty years and I never saw their equal. I picked twenty- 
nine quarts of Wm. Belt berries one morning, not one berry 
of which measured less than 2!4 inches in diameter. 
"I wish also to say that the 32.0Df) plants we purchased from 
you in the spring of 1912 arrived in splendid shape and have 
made a magnificent growth. Everything points to a bumper 
yield next year. I would rather pay what you ask for plants 
than get common plants for nothing." 
Mr. Gall sends us a photograph of foarteen of 
these Wm. Belts that are more than a yard-stick 
in length. Wm. T. LeFevre, horticulturist of 
the same company sent us a photograph showing 
five of these Wm. Belts that more than covered 
a foot-rule. 
And in a countless number of letters come 
references like the following: 
"Madison, Wis., March 10, 1913. Your plants are the best 
we have ever had in thirty-three years' experience with plants 
from many growers." Mrs. C. H. Hoyt. 
"Ashville, Ohio, Feb.3, 1913. I have read nearly your entire 
catalog of this year's issue; in fact, every year's issue for 
some time, And while I have in the past been quite skeptical 
over your term 'Thoroughbred' as applied to plant life, my 
own experience with your plants, as compared with others of 
same variety, forces me to believe there is more in it than I 
imagined. Your plants are more vigorous and bear la'ger 
fruit." D. H. Squire. 
"Duncansville, Pa., July 17, 1913. I write you regarding my 
success with your plants last year. The spring of 1912 I 
planted a number of your plants and would say 1 believe them 
superior to all others. I had the finest stand of strawberries 
this spring in this section." F. G. Smith. 
"West Unity, Ohio, June 2, 1913. Last spring I set plants 
from four different sources, but your plants are so much 
ahead of all others that I shall set them exclusively." 
J. D. PRICKETT. 
As every grower of crops realizes, the season 
of 1913 has been the most disastrous ever ex- 
perienced by American agriculture. Under the 
circumstances, therefore, the following letter 
received fi'om one of Chicago's leading attorneys 
is very gratifying, indeed, as indicating the su- 
perior vigor and hardiness of the Kellogg plants. 
Writing under date of August 21, 1913 Fred 
Blackinton says: 
"The 15,000 strawberry plants which I purchased from you 
last spring for planting on my farm at Fish Creek, Wisconsin, 
have proved very satisfactory and are thus far growing 
splendidly. They ought to bear a largo crop next year. Only 
a very few plants have died, and I am told that I am lucky, as 
only about 40 percent of the plants set this spring in the 
state of Wisconsin have grown. This information was given 
to me by a nurseryman the other day." 
With such testimonials, little is required from 
us by way of indicating the unquestioned supe- 
riority of the Kellogg Pedigree plants. The 
fact that we have such a fine crop of vigorous 
plants to offer you this season, in view of the al- 
most universal drouth of 1913, is of itself a re- 
markable testimony to their vitality and to the 
methods we employ in producing them. 
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