GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
Copyright 1913 by R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
SCENE IN AN ILLINOIS FIELD OF KELLOGG THOROUGHBRED PLANTS 
THE illustration above shows a portion of the large strawberry field of M. M. Scatcs. of El Paso, 111. This is right in the 
heart of the great corn belt, and those who have any doubt that strawberries do well in the rich black praine soil of that 
wonderful region, will have these doubts dissipated if they will especially note the thrift of these magnificent rows of plants. 
The view shows, also that old and young alike enjoy working among the strawberries— a universal interest is created by them. 
each plant; if the double-hedge row is to be your 
system, then four runners will be permitted to 
grow, and if the hill system be adopted, no run- 
ners whatever will be allowed to develop. Re- 
member, that the fewer the runner plants the 
more vigorous the mother plant will be. It is 
quite important, however, that the runner plants 
which are to form the system adopted should be 
encouraged to develop rapidly. Therefore, if a 
little soil is placed just back of the node, or bud, 
on the runner cord, it will relieve the mother 
plant and will hasten the time when the new 
plants will become entirely independent. A 
matter that seems difficult for the uninitiated to 
comprehend is the treatment of the runner cord 
which connects the runner plants with the mother 
plant. Nature herself will take pare of this mat- 
ter, as the runner cord will dry up as soon as its 
work of supplying sustenance to the young plant 
is finished. 
Why We Favor the Hill System 
YEARS of experience and observation have 
taught us that the best system to follow, if 
one wishes to produce high-priced berries, is the 
hill system. The hill system encourages the de- 
velopment of very large root and crown systems, 
and these in turn produce great quantities of 
fancy fruit. Under the hill system rows may be 
made thirty inches apart and plants set fifteen 
inches apart in the rows. Where these distances 
are observed it requires 14,000 plants for a single 
acre. The only objection we know to the hill 
system is the large number of plants required. 
But when results are counted up and compared, 
it invariably will be found that the grower who 
has followed the hill system not only will have 
paid many times for the extra number of plants 
required, but his profits will be many times over 
those made under any other system followed. 
Another advantage of the hill system is that 
there is no other which requires so little hoeing, 
as relates to the whole matter of cultivation, as 
does the hill system. By this we mean to say 
that the horse cultivator performs a larger per- 
centage of the cultivation of the field where the 
hill system is followed than it does in any other 
system ever devised. 
Hedge-Row Systems 
STILL, a great many growers prefer to culti- 
vate their plants either by the single-hedge 
row or the double-hedge row. Next to the hill 
system we favor the single-hedge row, as the 
amount of hoeing required is pnly a little more 
than that required in the case of the hill system; 
and this is a very important consideration. It is 
our observation, also, that the single-hedge row 
will produce, next to the hill system, the largest 
quantity of fancy fruit to a given area. As a 
rule, growers following the single-hedge row 
system make their rows three feet apart and set 
the plants two feet apart in the rows. Where 
this is done 7,250 plants are required for an acre. 
The same number of plants will be required for 
the double-hedge row, and the only diflference is 
that four runners are permitted to mature, and 
these are layered X fashion, the mother plant 
forming the center of the X. 
The Matted-Row System 
IN some portions of the country growers still 
follow what is known as the matted-row sys- 
tem. As we have said above, the fewer the run- 
ner plants the more, vigorous will be the individ- 
ual mother plant. In face of this important fact, 
some commercial growers persist in allowing a 
practically unlimited number of runner plants to 
develop from each mother plant. It is these 
growers that send to market fruit that tends to 
lower the price of all berries placed on the mar- 
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