GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
Copyright 1911 by R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
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STRAWBERRY POSSIBILITIES ON A CITY LOT CLEARLY INDICATED 
WHAT may be accomplis'ie J l)V the strawberry grower on a city lot is showix by the above illustration. It is a photograph of 
the home and strawberry field of F. E. Ward of Hastings, Mich., which is set to Kellogg Thoroughbreds. Mr. Ward writes: 
"This small patch brought us in $55.0 J in cash; besides which we canned and gave away a great many berries. I intend to put 
out two more lots into strawberries next year." This experience is typical of thousands of reports from delighted customers. 
An Explanatory Statement 
IT has been said that "imitation is the sincerest 
form of flattery." Certain it is that the one 
who imitates selects for his ideal the very best 
of its kind, and thus the very act of simulation 
sets upon the imitated the seal of high quality. 
One of the most flattering testimonials to the 
quality of Kellogg plants and methods is the per- 
sistence with which some growers of plants, and 
some seedsmen who sell strawberry plants as a 
side line, base their claims to superiority upon 
the ground that their plants are "R. M. Kellogg 
Co. 's plants, ' 'or who reproduce our illustrations,or 
use the name of new varieties of our plants of which 
the parties never had opportunity to buy a single 
plant. One large seed company on the Pacific 
coast brazenly advertised to supply their trade 
with Kellogg plants, until we compelled them to 
quit doing so, although our books failed to show 
they had ever sent us an order. Another large 
company, doing business at San Francisco and 
Seattle, and claiming to be the largest concern 
on the coast, advertises to sell the "R. M. Kel- 
logg Co. 's strain of plants," though we never 
have shipped plants to that company. 
One Pennsylvania concern issued quite an elab- 
orate catalogue, the strawberry department be- 
ing made up almost entirely of selections from 
our book, even to our descriptions of varieties— a 
manifest attempt to mislead the public. This 
concern also offered a book for 50 cents which 
they called "Great Crops of Strawberries and 
How to Grow Them." We asked a Philadelphia 
friend to secure and send us a copy. He called at 
the ofllce of the concern, but was told no copies 
of the book were kept in stock, but that a copy 
would be sent for. Later on a copy of the book 
was received. It was printed from plates a half- 
century old. There was nothing about "Great 
Crops," etc. in it, and as a guide to strawberry 
growing; it was as far behind the times as the age 
of its initial publication. 
On° Eastern plant grower last year deliberate- 
ly had reproduced from one of our books the en- 
graving of the R. M. Kellogg Co. 's breeding plot, 
notwithstanding the fact that the picture con- 
tained the well-known buildings and other sur- 
roundings of our farm at Three Rivers, he used 
this scene and declared it to be a photograph of 
his own breeding plot ! In addition to this he 
copied page after page of our copyrighted arti- 
cles describing the "Kellogg way. This modest 
gentleman was compelled to destroy all of the 
edition of his catalog remaining on hand after we 
discovered his action, and to send a statement to 
all of his customers acknowledging his wrong- 
doing. 
But in 1911, when one seed firm not only in- 
fringed upon our copyright, but made claims that 
reflected directly upon our business honor, the 
limit of endurance was reached. We made the 
unequivocal statement in our 1911 book that we 
had the exclusive sale of the Helen Davis straw- 
berry plants. This was the absolute truth, and its 
truthfulness has since then been verified by sworn 
testimony. Notwithstanding these facts, an 
Illinois seed firm, who sells strawberry plants, re- 
produced the half-tone engraving of the Helen 
Davis strawberries as shown in a glass fruit-dish 
on Page 19 of the present edition of "Great Crops 
of Strawberries," and proceeded to advertise for 
sale plants of that variety, notwithstanding the 
fact that no plants of that variety could be se- 
cured anywhere save from the Kellogg Co., and 
at prices approximately twice what they of- 
fered them for. As our illustrations are copy- 
righted, and as this fii-m had apparently violated 
the United States copyright law, we promptly 
brought suit against that concern for an in- 
junction and damages for this infraction of this 
copyright law and for unfair competition. The 
Address all communications and make all remittances payable to R. M. KELLOGG CO., Three Rivers, Mich. 
