GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
Copyright 1913 by R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
To Pacific Coast and Inter-Mountain State Patrons 
THE steadily advancing interest of our friends 
in the far-western sections of the United 
States and Canada in the work we are doing 
at our branch farms at Twin Falls, Idaho, and 
Canby, Oregon, was shown in 1913 by the great 
increase in orders to be filled from these farms. 
And we ai-e especially gratified by the number 
and character of letters received, indicating 
how great was the appreciation of our customers 
of the high quality of plants supplied and the no- 
table results secured from them. One typical in- 
stance was the sale to one customer of 400,000 
plants grown at Canby, and we are glad to say 
that the plants were of such high quality as to in- 
duce this purchaser immediately to close a con- 
tract for 400,000 more plants for 1913-14 delivery, 
which was accompanied by the statement that he 
expected to take as many as one million of our 
plants during the coming season. Nor were the 
calls for Western plants confined to the districts 
in which these plants are grown, but from Geor- 
gia, Texas, Florida and Alabama came orders for 
fall delivery from the Oregon farm. 
Our plants for 1914 at both Canby and Twm 
Falls are extra-fine, and we confidently expect to 
be in position to supply all of our customers in 
those great sections with the choicest plants pos- 
sible to produce. 
Here is a typical letter which indicates the sat- 
isfaction of our Southern customers who ordered 
and received Oregon-grown plants last season. 
Our Oregon Plants in the South 
Crystal Springa. Fla,. Jan. 9. 1912. "My Excelsior and Klon- 
dike plants grown at Canby, Oregon, an-ived last night all 
O. K. They are as fine-rooted plants as I ever have seen- 
eaual to those I bought of you some years ago, when in Okla- 
homa." N. R. WHITE. 
Good Words From California 
Last season we began shipping plants from our 
Canby farm in the fall of 1912. M. Arakawa of 
Los Angeles, purchased 127,000 plants for setting 
in December and Januarv. The first installment 
of these plants, numbering 42,500, reached Mr. 
Arakawa December 20, 1912. December 21 he 
wrote us as follows: 
"I have received the first shipment of strawberry plants 
and have just completed inspecting them. They are perfect- 
ly fine plants, and I declare that they are the best plants ever 
shipped to the growers of Southern California during my ex- 
perience of five years. I never before have seen such glorious 
plants; they are simply superb." 
From other California customers come the fol- 
lowing cheerful letters: 
Orange, Cal., March 17, 1913. "The strawberry plants from 
the Oregon station arrived in fine shape, i consider them the 
finest plants I ever saw from any company selling plants in ■ 
large quantities. Many thanks also for the courteous and in- 
valuable information pertaining to strawberry culture." 
H. P. Carpenter. 
Bakersfield, Calif., March 20, 1913. "I received plants from 
Canby. They came in first-class order and are fine! All are 
planted out and irrigated and arc doing well." 
S. W. Millard. 
Sonoma, Calif., Feb. 27, 1913. "The strawberry plants ar- 
rived from Canby in good condition. Am pleased with size 
and quality of the plants and regret very much that I did not 
know of your house earlier, as I got 5,000 plants from another 
nursery— I certainly bouprht some 'limes.' It is no exagger- 
ation to sav that not 200 of them were as large as the average 
size of your plants, and I paid more per thousand for them ! ' 
T. S. Watts. 
Washington Customers Delighted 
From a Washington customer comes this 
gratifying account of his experience with the 
Canby plants (see illustration on Page 5): 
Cashmere, Wash., June 1, 1913. "Last year I obtained 
10 000 strawberry plants from you, and now that I see the 
splendid crop I shall get from them I feel that I ought to be 
grateful enough to thank you for the prompt way in which 
you shipped the plants to me. Yours arrived within twodays 
after I mailed you the letter ordering you to ship. I ordered 
1.000 from a seed company, and they took three weeks to fill 
tiie order, and when they came nearly half were worthless. 
Out of your 10.000 plants only seventeen failed to grow ! How 
is that for a record, when a man is rushed and planting about 
a thousand a day?" Sydney S. Barker. 
Mrs. Jennie F. Brock of North Yakima, Wash., 
wrote us under date of May 9, 1913: 
"Your strawberry plants from Oregon an-ived safely, and I 
am more than satisfied with tl^e entire lot. Tlie plants w ero 
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