R. M. Kellogg's Great Crops of 
BRANDYWINE (B). 
I.ATK. Another ptt of pets. Big, deep Wood red 
^lear to the center, a flavor peculiar to itself and one of 
tlic best canning berries of all the late varieties. The 
demand for the past five years Iras been greater than 
any other late variety. Males the late pistillates exactly 
and has strong potent pollen. Holds its fruit entirely 
lip from the ground. Pedigree, eleven years. 
MIDNIGHT (B). 
ries. This is an cnnrmotis sum and at first 
thought seems high, but after all it is onlj' a 
little over a dollar per capita of poimlatirHi and I 
dare say, if authentic figures could be had it 
would be found below the actual amount con- 
sumed. 
We do know that everybody eats them 
■"from dawn to dark," if they can .G;ct them. 
The first dish is hailed with delight and the 
last dish of the season taken with extreme re- 
gret, and the more delicious they are the more 
they will eat and the delicious things will 
soon so work on the mind of a customer, if he 
is operated on skillfully by tempting him with 
different varieties, that he just becomes about 
helpless. He may squirm some on the price, 
but he will keep riglit on buying and eating 
and the babies will squall like' bedlam, if tlicy 
cannot have an increased allowance. 
CHICKENS AND STRAWBERRIES. 
Here is a great combination. The chickens 
-to furnish manure, eat up the bugs and insects, 
and to provide spending money while the ber- 
ries are being grown. 
Bone meal and meat are the great fertilizers 
for strawberries. Add a little potasli and it 
is superior to the best Peruvian Guano. 
It must be ground fine, and no machine on 
earth can grind it so fine as the gizzard of a 
chicken. Bones and scrap meat can be had 
dirt cheap at all the markets. Feed it liberally, 
and the chickens will shell out the eggs as well 
as the fertilizer, 
A good flock of chickens is far better than a 
cow stable. 
Compost the droppings with about four 
times their bulk of any loamy soil as fast as 
you clean out the roosts. This compost should 
be put under cover and kept dry. Mix it well 
Midnight because it is the last hour of the last day of the 
strawberry season. I'.rotlur Hale hit it pretty close and 
it will prove a success under general test. Must have 
rich, strong soil anil .good culture and tlicn it is O. K. 
and sow broadcast and Iiarrow in thoroughly, 
before setting tlie plants. 
Never mix ashes or lime with the manure be- 
fore putting it into the soil. This will act as a 
discufcctant and set the nitrogen free so it will 
escape. 
Use land i)lastcr under the roost. This ab- 
sorbs tlie ammonia and holds it until it is in 
the soil. 
The manure is so strong when not diluted 
with soil that if any quantity conies next to 
the roots it would burn them, and thus injure 
the plants. 
I should not like to be a grasshopper, bug or 
worm where a flock of young chickens were 
running around. I never had plants injured 
by their running over them. Chickens only 
need to be shut up while berries arc ripening' 
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