GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
Copyright 1911 by R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
TEN C.'XRLO.^DS OF PLANT FOOD 
WHEN you set the Kellogg Thoroughbred Pedigree plants which have been scientifically grown under the most ideal condi- 
tions you are setting a strain of plants that will make you the " first fiddler" in the strawberry orchestra. The heavy 
growth of cowpeas and vetch turned under, together with the liberal dressing of manure, potash, acid phospha),e and ground 
limestone tones the soil up to the highest pitch. This soil preparation insures the building of plants that are perfectly devel- 
oped in ail of their vital parts, and this in turn guarantees to the grower the production of big crops of big red berries. 
spring monttis scatter evenly over the ground 
from twelve to twenty tons of manure per acre, 
the quantity used depending largely upon the 
present condition of your soil. In the spring, just 
as early as your soil will do to work in, plow the 
manure under, following with the harrow as early 
as possible so as to pulverize the clods before they 
have time to become hard. Continue the harrow- 
ing until the soil is made fine to the depth of the 
plowing. 1 hen go over the soil with roller or float 
so as to press the soil grains firmly together. This 
leaves the soil in ideal condition for the tool 
which is to make the marks for the rows. This 
tool should be light so as to make merely an in- 
denture in the soil and not a furrow. We like to 
have the plants set on a level with the surface as 
nearly as it is possible to do so, except in some 
cases which will be explained later on. If you are 
to grow berries in the single-hedge, double-hedge 
or narrow-matted row, you should make the rows 
three and one-half feet apart and set the plants 
two feet apart in the rows. For hill culture rows 
should be made from twenty-four to thirty inches 
apart, setting the plants from twelve to fifteen 
inches apart in the rows. 
The Care of Plants 
WHEN you receive our plants they will be se- 
curely packed. Ihe plants will be tied in 
bunches of twenty-five plants each, and each 
bunch will contain a label bearing the name and 
sex of the variety. The package or packages 
should be opened in a cool, shady place. Each 
variety should be put into a basket or box to it- 
self, baving the labels in the bunches so as to 
prevent any chance of getting the varieties mixed. 
The tip ends of the roots should be cut back from 
one to two inches, using shears or knife, before 
the bunches are opened. We will do the pruning 
for you if you wish. Should you desire us to do 
so, mention it on your order. When plants are 
taken to the field .to be set they should be kept 
WRITING from Rockford, 111., A. E. Lindsay, whose home 
** and strawberry patch are here shown, says; "I bought 
some plants of a local dealer a few years ago but did not have 
very good luck with them, so concluded that raising straw- 
berries did not pay, but a friend came along and advised me 
to send for some of your plants. I never saw anything to 
equal them. The way your plants got down to busineps was a 
wonder. I pickefl 100 quarts the first year, and the last year 
I must have gathered fully 200 quarts. I am sorry for anyone 
who wastes time on any but pedigree plants." 
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