Short Plant Supply Creates a Great Opportunity 
WE present herewith our 1912 edition 
of "Great Crops of Strawberries and 
How to Grow Them." The season 
of 1911 was one that makes certain an un- 
usual season in 1912, for last year was un- 
questionably the most disastrous in its wide- 
spread effects upon crops in the history of 
the United States, or at least in most of the 
states east of the Rocky Mountains. The De- 
partment of Agriculture reported Sept. 1, 
1911, a shortage of 285,000,000 bushels of 
oats, 390,000,000 bushels of corn, 36,000,- 
000 bushels of wheat and 80,000,000 
bushels of potatoes. Including the 
shortage in rye, barley, and buck- 
wheat, the total shortage of 
grain and potatoes aggregates 
the stupendous amount of 
seven hundred and thirty- 
seven millions of bushels; 
and 14,000,000 tons of hay! 
The same conditions that 
produced this vast short- 
age also have produced 
such a famine in straw- 
berry plants throughout 
the country as never be- 
fore has been known. Re- 
ports from strawberry 
plant growers all over the 
country indicate that there 
will not be one-half of a nor- 
mal crop, and some reports 
indicate that the crop will fall 
below that estimate. 
Such a curtailment of the plant 
supply makes it certain that there 
will be a relatively small area set to 
strawberry plants in 1912, which insures an 
unusual demand upon those fortunate enough 
to be in position to supply strawberries for 
the next few seasons, and that prices for ber- 
ries will run very high is not to be doubted. 
We cannot, therefore, too strongly impress 
upon our friends the extraordinary opportun- 
ity thus created and to advise them of the 
importance of taking advantage of it by get- 
ting in their orders for plants at the earliest 
possible moment. 
Notwithstanding the great shortage of 
plants, it will be observed that our prices 
have not been increased as much as the scar- 
city of plants would warrant. We know that 
we could sell every strawberry plant we have 
on all three of our farms at double the prices 
we quote in this book, but we do not purpose 
charging any more for the plants than is ab- 
solutely necessary under the conditions which 
prevail, because we realize that growers of 
strawberries have suffered severe losses from 
the same conditions that produced the short- 
age in plants and in nearly all other lines of 
agricultural products. As early as August, 
1911, we were booking large orders for 1912 
delivery. One grower who visited our farms ' 
insisted that we sell him 200,000 plants of a 
single variety. But we declined to book his 
order for more than 100,000 plants, as we 
felt it our duty to protect our other 
customers by reserving sufficient 
plants of this particular variety 
to supply their needs. We take 
this opportunity to announce 
that we have established two 
important branch straw- 
berry plant farms in the 
West — one at Canby, Ore- 
gon, for the Pacific Coast 
trade, the other at Twin 
Falls, Idaho, for the Inter- 
Mountain State trade. 
These branch farms were 
established in response to 
the growing demand for 
Kellogg Thoroughbred 
Pedigree plants in the West, 
and the cordial reception giv- 
en our branch establishments 
expresses in a most practical 
way the high appreciation in 
which our strawberry plants are 
R. M. KELLOGG held by the people of that section. 
They understand to the full what it 
means for them in the way of big crops of 
berries to have Kellogg plants grown in "the 
Kellogg way" and under their own conditions 
of soil and climate. As we shall be able to 
supply the Far West from these branch farms, 
we are in position to reserve for our patrons 
east of the Rocky Mountains the bulk of the 
crop of plants grown at Three Rivers, Mich. 
Although the quantity of plants is so great- 
ly reduced, we are glad to say that the qual- 
ity is fully up to the highest standard of the 
R. M. Kellogg Co. product. Indeed, we 
never have grown better plants than those 
we offer for 1912. Our patrons, therefore, 
should not delay in sending us their orders 
for plants at the earliest moment possible, in 
order to be sure of securing desired varieties. 
Address all communications and make all remittances payable to R. M. KELLOGG CO., Three Rivers, Mich. 
