GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
Copyright 1911 by R. M. Keltogfi Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
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THREE KELLOGG THOROUGHBRED PEDIGREE PLANTS SHOWING FULL ROOT AND CROWN DEVELOPMENT 
TTHESE three plants were taken from the soil in such a way as to preserve the full root system, so that we might show the 
* great feeding- capacity of the plants. It is this wonderful root system that stores up in the crown or body of the plant the 
vitality which the plant subsists upon while traveling from our farm to the customer, and which results in its immediately 
starting to grow with great vigor after setting and in the production of big crops of fancy berries that always bring big prices. 
ing, grading, packing and marketing the straw- 
berries. The grower who follows our methods in 
these respects will never fail for lack of custom- 
ers and at the highest prices (See letter of J. D. 
Alexander, on Page 11.) 
The Kellogg Thorougnbred Pedigree plants de- 
scribed in these pages are carefully selected from 
mother plants of proved fruiting vigor. We grow 
these plants under the most ideal conditions pos- 
sible to provide. And every plant we offer for 
sale is of our own production. The methods we 
have described above as being essentials to suc- 
cess are faithfully carried out in our own fields, 
and we confidently assert that they represent the 
highest type of strawberry plants ever produced, 
and are possessed of the most remarkable fruit- 
ing powers. This statement is based upon 
the records sent us by our customers. O. J. 
Wigen, for instance, writes us from Wyndel, 
B. C., to say that he grew 45,000 quarts of straw- 
berries from four acres of our Thoroughbred 
plants, and never a season passes but an order 
for additional plants comes from Mr. Wigen. 
The letters which we can find space for in this 
book are only a very limited selection from thou- 
sands of encouraging words that have come to us 
during the past few months from customers, all 
of them pleased and grateful because of their 
success attained through growing our plants. 
Once a customer, always a customer, is the rule 
with us. Some of them have ordered plants from 
us for twenty-seven years. Francis l!. Harring- 
ton of Worcester, Mass. , (see illustration on page 
7) sent us his initial order in 1904, and has ordered 
a generous number of plants every season since, 
as the following table indicates: 
1904, - $18.75 1908, - $29.75 
1905, - - 26.90 1909, - - 24.40 
1906, - 25.80 1910, • 22.50 
1907, - - 30.50 1911, - - 12.50 
This tells the story more eloquently than we can 
express it in words. In his note ihe reason for 
the decreasing number of plants m later years is 
explained by the fact that the development of the 
city of Worcester has compelled him to restrict 
the area of his strawberry field. 
Not only do we have the confidence of our old 
customers, but we are pleased to have substan- 
tial evidences of the endorsement of our work 
and methods by the scientists of the Agricultural 
Colleges and Experiment Stations of the country, 
most all of which use our book as a text book in 
their horticultural classes. Indeed, the estab- 
lishment of our branch farm in Oregon came 
about through a letter from one of the professors 
in the Oregon Agricultural College, in which he 
said that in view of the fact that Oregon straw- 
berry growers wanted very much to use Kellogg 
plants, he thought we were missing a great op- 
portunity when we failed to supply this demand 
with plants grown under Pacific Coast conditions. 
And in a Bulletin devoted to strawberry grow- 
ing recently issued by the Idaho Agricultural 
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