GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
Copyright 1911 by R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
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R. F. SHARP'S FIELD OF THOROUGHBREDS AT WHITE PIGEON, MICH. 
THIS view was taken just 120 days after these Kellogg plants were set out, during which there were 42 days of terrific 
drouKht But Mr. Sharf is an old employee of the Kellogg Co., and knew just how to meet the emergency, ihe varieties 
are Senator Dunlap, Warlield, Sample, Dornan, Haverland, Brandywine and Pride of Michigan-a very excellent selection. 
than others sell them for, but they are ten times 
as high in their power to produce big, fine berries. 
so I think they are awfully cheap in the final 
windup. I find by experience that it pays better 
to set your plants at your price than it does to 
set their plants as a free gift. 
"I have bought plants of a good many straw- 
berry men and have quit them all, for 1910 satis- 
fied me. I had a good crop in 1910, grown on the 
Elants I got from you in 1909. There were no 
erries in my section in 1910 excepting mine, and 
I had fine, liig berries; and I want to say right 
here that Kellogg's Thoroughbred Plants are 
good enough for me. Experience has taught me 
this: I have been raising strawberries for ten 
years, and I want to say if I could not get Kel- 
logg's plants I would quit business. I could tell 
you a lot more about your plants, but I guess I 
had better quit. May God bless your company 
for the good work you are doing. " 
Importance of Well-bred Plants 
R. L. Watts, horticulturist of the Pennsylva- 
nia Agricultural College, recently wrote a para- 
graph on the importance of planting good seeds 
which applies with equal force to strawberry 
plants, and it is so suggestive that we reproduce 
it here: "Vegetable growers are open to severe 
criticism regarding the character of the seeds 
which they plant annually. Variations are so 
great with all classes of seeds that the whole 
question demands attention. The most progres- 
sive corn growers of the West know the impor- 
tance of using the best seed, and a vegetable 
grower here and there is awake in regard to this 
question, but the rank and file of the army of 
truckers and market gardeners give the matter 
very little thought. The breeding plots at the 
Address all communications and make all remittances 
Pennsylvania State College indicate most em- 
phatically that certain strains of Jersey Wake- 
field cabbage will make $100 more per acre than 
other and poorly bred strains. Selections of seed 
made at the college have done remarkably well, 
thus indicating that it is possible to breed seed 
that will produce satisfactory results." 
We Always Welcome Investigation 
THE following letter received from W. H. 
Geoi-ge, Edgewood, Pa. , is suggestive, and we 
hope others, when in doubt, may adopt his course: 
"We are novices in the business, and must ad- 
mit that we have been rather skeptical about 
some of the great crops of enormous berries you 
show and speak of, and, as you request doubters 
to write to any of your customers, we selected 
one at random, Mr. E. J. Brown, Bloomsburg, 
Pa., and such a letter as we got in reply— you 
have none to equal it. We decided that if your 
plants were so good for him they ought to be 
some good for us, as we are after the same coin 
that he is after; and if we don't equal him in per 
cent, it will not be for lack of effort." 
Kellogg's Plants Make Britisher Weep 
AMONG the foreign shipments made by the 
R. M. Kellogg Company in the spring of 1911 
was one composed of 150 plants to Mr. Edmund 
Wiseman at Luton, England. Writing to an 
American friend, under date of May 10th, 1911, 
Mr. Wiseman says: 
"One of Kellogg's catalogues arrived in due 
course and I read it carefully and with increasing 
interest. I had no intention of ordering at first, 
but as I read on I began to feel convinced that I 
must try what I could do with those grand Amer- 
payable to R. M. KELLOGG CO., Three Rivers, Mich. 
