R. M. Kellogg's Great Crops of 
HAVERLAND (P). 
MEDIUM. The standard of productiveness. In the 
hedge row the berries just pile up on each side and you 
sit and pick and pick. Oh, dear, wlien will you get 
them all. Color crimson, not very firm, but skin is tough 
and flesh sweet. Kat 'em with stems on. Fruit stems are 
long and slender so it cannot hold its great tresses of 
berries from the ground and so it must always be mulch- 
ed. Fourteen year pedigree. 
the oil will not come up. The fire does burn 
the oil at the top and this keeps the oil moving 
up steadily. Water conies up in the soil in 
the same way. The crust on the surface ab- 
sorbs the water and lets it cocne in contact 
with the hot sun and air so it is vaporized and 
carried away. 
Now the cultivator stops the water from 
coming up. How does it do it? It makes the 
soil grains so loose, so far apart that it takes 
so much water to fill the interstices that grav- 
itation, the pulling down force is the strong- 
est, and so as quick as the water strikes the 
loose earth it can go no further. Did you ever 
notice that in the dryest time you can go out 
in the road where the wagon wheels run and 
poke the dust away and find moist earth? The 
firm, hard earth brings the water up to this 
capillary force and the dust protects it from 
the sun and wind just as the cultivator leaves 
it. Of course, there is some evaporation, but 
if you will plow early and begin cultivating 
early and repeat it after every rain and at least 
once a week you need not fear the consequences 
of a protracted drought. After the ground once 
gets very dry, cultivating does very little good so 
far as moisture is concerned. You must never 
cultivate deep enough to tear the roots. They 
will come as near the surface as they can and, 
if you cultivate two inches deep and then later 
go three inches deep, you would destroy the 
best feeding roots. VVe go not over an inch 
deep next to the plant and at least three inches 
deep in the center of the row. 
When soil grains are wet they are quite slip- 
pery and will move around and be forced down 
tight or packed in the course of a week so as 
ENORMOUS (P). 
MEDIUM TO LATIC. ICnornious means big, but that 
is not its only good quality. It is one of the heavy producers. 
Berries are always large and plenty of them, sound and 
meaty to the core. At home on all soils. Pedigree nine 
years. 
to make capillary attraction strong and so we 
need to cultivate cverj' week whether it rains 
or not. 
When we irrigate, if we did not break up the 
surface of the ditch as soon as it dried off at 
the surface, we should lose every drop of water 
in a few days, but by destroying the capillary 
passages with the cultivator it will keep the 
plants growing nicely over two weeks in the 
hotest weather. 
The best cultivator is one that will leave the 
ground very fine and loose. The most satis- 
factory thing I have ever seen is the Planet 
Jr. i2-tooth cultivator with the pulverizer at- 
tachment at the rear. We use it altogether 
and can furnish it to our customers at manu- 
facturer's prices. It sometimes happens that 
land is exposed to a long sweep of wind and 
when heavy winds prevail it will raise the dust 
and often throw sand against the plants so as to 
seriously injure them. This is prevented by 
large cultivator teeth throwing the ground up 
in ridges. This breaks the friction on the 
smooth surface so the sand cannot rise. 
FALL SETTING OF PLANTS. 
The time to set plants is in the spring. We 
will not furnish plants for summer or fall set- 
ting under any circumstances nor for any price. 
We do not want to send these thoroughbred 
plants to any one to be grown under unfavor- 
able conditions. We insist that they shall be 
set at the proper time, and that is early in the 
spring, on ground properly fitted and given 
suitable tillage and wherever this is done they 
create a sensation with every one who sees 
the fruit and this is the basis of our success 
in plant breeding and explains why the num- 
ber of orders double every year. 
The value of Thoroughbred Pedigree plants 
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