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GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
Copyright 19H by R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
VIEW OF ONE OF F. R. COOK'S STRAWBERRY FIELDS AT LEXINGTON. OHIO 
THIS view was taken June 8, 1911. Mr. Cook writes as follows: "This field is composed mostly of KelloKu's Sample. Wi 
Belt. Dunlap and Haverland. Note the new field in the background for next year. The KellojrK strain ot plants are h, 
and produce great crops ot strawberries." Mr. Cook's field certainly indicates the thrift and vmorof our 1 horoupthbred fJanl 
suit was begun in the United States Circuit 
Court for tlie Northern District of Illinois, West- 
ern Division, Judge Kohlsaat of Chicago presid- 
ing. Without going into all the legal phi-aseology 
of the preliminary injunction issued by the court, 
we may say in a word that the court promptly 
"Ordered, adjudged and decreed" that an in- 
junction issue (without bond) 
"restraining the said defendants, and each of them, and 
their respective agents, attorneys, servants and work- 
men, and each of them, until the further order of this 
court, from publishing, printing, selling, disposing of, 
distributing, exposing for sale or cau.sing or being in any 
way concerned in the sale or exposing for sale or deliv- 
ery, or distributing or otherwise disposing of, any copies 
of the said Seed and Plant Guide con- 
taining the page referred to. illustrating and advertising 
the Helen Davis strawberry, which is complained of in 
the bill of complaint, marked "Exhibit D," or any mate- 
rial or substantial part of the same, or any imitations or 
simulations thereof, or of the complainant's copyrighted 
publication." 
"It is further ordered, adjudged and decreed by the 
court that the said defendants turn over to the com- 
plainant the plate or plates for printing or reproducing 
the infringing page of the defendant's publication." 
In order that we might be perfectly certain 
that this party was not delivering Helen Davis 
plants we had several friends in different parts 
of the country order plants of that name from 
this concern. Some of these were setside by side 
(in our own testing plot) with our own Helen 
Davis plants, where they were carefully noted, 
and Iwe found the other plants in no wise re- 
sembled the real Helen Davis plants. Some of 
our friends in various states made the same test 
with the same result. One Illinois strawberry 
grower, of half a century of experience, testified 
under oath that the alleged Helen Davis plants 
he received from the Illinois concern didnotat all 
resemble the true Helen Davis variety as grown by 
R. M. Kellogg Co., but did resemble the Senator 
Dunlap plant. 
And on the taking of testimony it was shown 
that the only genuine Helen Davis plants that this 
concern had been able to secure with which to fill 
orders were 200 plants purchased from R. M. Kel- 
logg Co. by a representative of the Illinois con- 
cern ! It also was shown that that house had sent 
orders to two plant growers in southern Illinois to 
have them fill its orders for Helen Davis 
plants. Neither of these growers had Helen Davis 
plants on their farms, neither did they list them 
in their catalogues; but they filled the orders just 
the same with something and called them Helen 
Davis! Since that time one of these plant grow- 
ers has admitted over his own signature that he 
did not know the Helen Davis plants, and that it 
was a new variety to him. It is interesting in 
this connection to know that one of these con- 
cerns from whom the Illinois concern ordered Helen 
Davis plants has been repeatedly denounced as 
a fraud in the pages of no less an authority 
than The Rural New-Yorker! 
With the manifest purpose of forcingusto settle 
our copyright case against it, this Illinois concern 
brought suit against us in the sum of $100,000.00, 
because we told the truth about its action in the 
matter. Our attorneys, however, advise us that 
there is no foundation for the suit thus brought 
against us; and we shall push our own case against 
the offending firm until justice is satisfied. 
We never make any misrepresentations in our 
book, as customers of many years will testify, 
and this plain statement of facts is made here 
simply to correct any misapprehensions that may 
have grown out of the action of the Illinois con- 
cern as above set forth. One assurance every cus- 
tomer of the R. IVI. Kellogg Co. always has, name- 
ly, that'every plant offered by this company is ex- 
actly as represented, and is grown under our own 
supervision and according to the methods we ad- 
vocate as essential to the production of high-qual- 
ity plants. Genuine Kellojif; plants can not be ob- 
tained from any source except the A'. M. Kellogg C 'o. 
So numerous and persistent have become so- 
called nurserymen who thus impose upon us and 
Address all communications and make aM remittances payable to R. M. KELLOGG CO., Three Rivers, Mich. 
