GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
Copyright 1913 by R. M. Keliogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
KELLOGG THOROUGHBREDS AS THEY GROW IN NEW YORK STATE 
THIS scene represents a portion of the strawberry fields of Milo E. Fletcher of Norwood, N. Y. Accompanying this photo- 
graph was a letter in which Mr. Fletcher says: "About ten years ago. through your annual book, 1 sent an order tor about 
200 plants ot the 'Thoroughbred Pedigrees.' The results from these plants from year to year have been something wondertul. 
Last season (1912) I had just one-sixteenth of an acre of your plants by actual measurement and from that plot we sold !i5U 
quarts of strawberries at an average price of 12!4c per quart." Mr. Fletcher in his letter says that this fine record was made 
notwithstanding unusually difficult wither conditions. It will be noted that this was at the rate of 13,b00 quarts lo the acre. 
pistillates will be mated when set with any of 
the bisexuals shown in the brackets opposite 
them. Two of the most popular bisexual varie- 
ties—Glen Mary and Gandy — are not mentioned 
here, for the reason that both sometimes are de- 
ficient in their early bloom, and we therefore ad- 
vise mating them as if they were pistillates. 
Any other mid-season bisexual will perfectly sup- 
ply this deficiency in Gandy and Glen Mary. 
Among the ever-bearing varieties Productive 
is a pistillate, and will be fertilized when set be- 
tween rows of Americus, Progressive or Superb. 
Cultivating the Plants 
THE work of cultivating the plants should be- 
gin directly after the plants are set out. This 
should be repeated every week or ten days, if the 
weather remains clear, and very soon after a 
good rain— as soon as the soil will crumble when 
pressed in the hand— cultivation should follow, 
and a perfect dust mulch be maintained over the 
entire field. Where the strawberries are grown 
extensively the horse cultivator should be used 
the long way of the rows, and this should be fol- 
lowed by men with hoes who will stir the soil be- 
tween tne plants in the rows. Cultivation is the 
third element in the trinity to which we referred 
at the outset) and after good plants are set in 
good soil no other one thing is so important as 
continuous cultivation. The advantageous re- 
sults of cultivation are many — it prevents the 
grass from forming on the soil's surface and, by 
retaining a dust mulch, conserves the moisture in 
the soil. It destroys all weed seeds while they 
are in the germinating stage. Vigorous and con- 
tinuous growth is secured only when the digest- 
ive organs of the plants are in a perfectly healthy 
condition. To keep them in such a condition you 
must keep bacteria active, and to keep bacteria 
active we must supply them with an abundance 
of air, and aeration of the soil is obtained only 
through cultivation. 
Cul^tivation in the Fruiting Season 
DURING the past year we have received many 
inquiries as to the advisability of cultivating 
strawberries during the fruiting season. We be- 
lieve that the time is not far distant when berry 
growers will cultivate their fruiting beds just as 
other crops are cultivated during the period of 
greatest development. The question that most 
frequently is raised at this point relates to the 
mulching which is placed between the rows for 
the fruit to ripen upon. But if the grower simply 
will rake the mulching from the spaces between 
the center of the rows and place it close up to 
the edges of the rows, it will be an easy matter 
for the cultivator to stir the soil in the center of 
the spaces, and this will encourage more and 
better fruit. The mulching directly along the 
rows will be so thick as to make it almost impos- 
sible for any kind of obnoxious growth to come 
up through it, and the running of the cultivators 
every week through the spaces between the rows 
will create a dust mulch and will prevent any 
weeds from growing there. We advise that culti- 
vation of the fruiting bed begin as soon as danger 
of frost is over in the spring and continued every 
week until the plants begin to bloom. Then dis- 
continue cultivation until after the blooming sea- 
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