GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
Copyright 1913 by R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
SAMPLE. FEMALE OR PISTILLATE - LATE 
FOR eighteen years we have offered this remarkable pistillate variety to our customers, and with each succeeding year it 
becomes more firmly rooted in the confidence of growers. This is true of commercial producers over the larger part of the 
entire country and Canada. One of the largest yielders known, famous for the size of the individual berry, which is a bright 
red and of perfect strawberry form for the most part, its popularity is based upon actual performance and a degree of relia- 
bility that insures generous crops even under adverse conditions. One fine trait of the Sample is its habit of ripening a certain 
percentage of its fruit each day until the close of the season. Commercial growers understand the high value of a variety 
having this characteristic. In very truth. Sample is a favorite in all sections of the country. Grown only at Three Rivers. 
he received the prices above quoted, he would 
have 10,666 quarts of firsts and these would 
amount to $1066.60, and he would have 5,333 
quarts at 7 cents, $373.30 for the seconds, leaving 
out fractions, or a total income of $1440 from the 
acre. Subtracting $250 from this amount leaves 
a net income of $1190 approximately, or nearly 400 
per cent greater than the profit shown in the sup- 
positious case, and practically the only additional 
cost in the case of Mr. Henderson would be for 
picking, packing, boxing and crating the fruit. 
Of course, the case of Mr. Henderson is extra- 
ordinary; but it nevertheless goes to show how 
large are the possibilities in the case of straw- 
berry growers who give to their fields the extra 
care and attention which Mr. Henderson doubt- 
less did, and, as we say, this extra care and at- 
tention doesn't represent a large cash outlay, but 
consists very largely in doing the right thing at 
the right time, and allowing nothing to transpire 
in his fields that may be avoided by close obser- 
vation and intelligent action. 
But, one may say, the case of Mr. Henderson is 
unusual and quite impossible under any but the 
most exceptional conditions. Assuming that this 
is so, the fact still remains that it is a duty the 
individual grower owes himself to do the very 
best he can under the circumstances, and he will 
find that, if he does this, his profits will increase 
immensely. 
Suppose, however, that the grower in the sup- 
positious case, instead of growing 6,000 quarts 
to the acre, had grown 8,000 quarts, (which is 
not at all extraordinary), the 2,000 extra Quarts 
of berries would, as we have indicated above, be 
clear profit, excepting in the matter of picking, 
packing, boxing and crating. If he received 10 
cents a quart for these 2,000 boxes, and allowing 
that it costs him 3 cents a quart to get the plants 
on the market, his net gain on the 2,000 boxes 
would be 7 cents a quart, or a total of $140. In 
other words, he has increased his profits by near- 
ly 50 per cent, and this without any appreciable 
expenditure of time or money. 
Every step of the way reauired to produce 
these larger returns is clearly snown in this book. 
It all depends upon the application the individual 
grower makes of the lessons thus taught whether 
he is to have large profits, or medium profits, or 
small profits. Nature will do very much under 
conditions not altogether encouraging, but where 
nature is aided by man's intelligent efforts, re- 
sults are simply astonishing. We sincerely hope 
that every grower of Kellogg plants will give 
full consideration to these suggestions with a 
view to increasing his output of fancy fruit and 
thereby increase his own earnings. 
An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a 
Pound of Cure 
WRITING under date of June 30, 1913, C. 
A. Kraut of PleaSantville, Ohio, says : 
"In the spring of 1911 I purchased 125 
of your strawberry plants and let them make all 
the plants they would. In the spring of 1912 I 
set out a piece of ground with the plants grown 
from these 125 plants, containing 23.6 square 
rods, and kept off all of the blossoms and all but 
one runner from each plant. On the tenth of 
May, 1913, we had a hard freeze which killed all 
early berries and other fruits. But I got busy 
in the evening preceding the night of the freeze 
and dug up all the straw between the rows and 
ridged it right over the rows of plants, which 
were in full bloom, and left the straw there until 
the weather warmed up, when I restored it to the 
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