Our Idaho and Oregon Branch Farms Combined In 
One Great Farm at Twin Falls, Idaho 
FOUR years ago we established branch farms 
at Twin Falls, Idaho, and Canby, Oregon, in 
response to the universal demand in both 
of those great horticultural sections for the 
Kellogg plants. The creation of two branch 
farms was in the nature of an experiment. We 
sought to discover just the right place in the 
West as a basis of supplies for our Western 
trade. After four years of experimentation we 
decided to discontinue the Oregon branch farm 
and have this season combined both of the branch 
farms into one very large farm at Twin Falls, 
Idaho. The success of our Western enterprises 
has been most gratifying, but after four years of 
experience we know that we can render better 
service to our patrons by taking this course. One 
reason for the change is that in our own experi- 
ence and in the experience of many of our Pacific 
Coast customers it is found that a belter, more 
vigorous and productive plant is grown in the 
Twin Falls section than can be produced under 
the soil and climatic conditions prevailing on the 
Western coast. For instance, one Pacific Coast 
customer reports that whereas he secured only 
$400 worth of strawberries from an acre of plants 
grown at Canby, he succeeded in producing from 
the same area and same variety of plants grown 
at our Twin Falls farm the sum of $1200. 
Another very important element having to do 
with our own success and that of our customers 
is suggested by the statement of our former 
manager of the Canby branch farm, who says 
that the plants grown at Canby do not continue 
true to type, but are widely changed by the pe- 
culiar influences of soil and climatic conditions 
that obtain at Canby. 
The soil at Twin Falls is a virgin, volcanic ash, 
which contains the plant-food elements necessary 
to produce perfectly developed and highly fruit- 
ful plants. Another advantage in favor of Twin 
Falls is the fact that we have there fully two 
months of winter weather which produces a 
dormant condition in plants, and this, as all straw- 
berry growers understand, is very essential to the 
vigor and productive powers of the strawberry 
plant. Then, too, we have at Twin Falls the best 
facilities for irrigating in the entire country. 
This ample water supply enables us to keep the 
plants in a state of continuous and vigorous 
growth throughout the entire growing months. 
The soil analyzes high in phosphorous, potassium 
and nitrogen, the three principal plant-food ele- 
ments so essential to all plant life. The most 
perfect plants, therefore, that may be produced 
in the great horticultural West we find are grown 
at Twin Falls. 
Another important element leading to our de- 
cision to discontinue the Oregon branch farm is 
the fact that at Twin Falls we have almost con- 
tinuous sunshine, which results in producing 
plants that are free from all fungous diseases and 
which transforms plant food into a form available 
for the use of the plant, thus insuring large, 
vigorous and fruitful plants. 
And still another point which has led us to 
combine our work in the West at Twin Falls is its 
central location for our Western trade. The ex- 
perience of the last four years clearly has shown 
that Twin Falls is by virtue of its natural con- 
ditions, its shipping facilities and its central lo- 
cation in the great Western fruit belt, the best 
point in the West for our purposes and the con- 
venience and economy of our patrons. 
Our Twin Falls-grown plants are unequalled in 
their carrying qualities. The manager of our 
Twin Falls farm was for many years connected 
with our Three Rivers farm and therefore has a 
thorough knowledge of the Kellogg way, both in 
the growing and the packing of plants. Last 
season we shipped 125,000 Superb plants from our 
Twin Falls farm to one of our Michigan custom- 
ers. These plants were shipped late in the 
season. Indeed, one large shipment did not reach 
Three Rivers until the 5th of June. All of these 
shipments reached Three Rivers as fresh as the 
day they were dug, and this customer reports a 
98-per cent, stand. These plants made a remark- 
able growth and began fruiting heavily in Sep- 
tember, and the fruit produced by these plants 
in the late summer and autumn of 1915 was as 
fine as anything that went to the Chicago, 
Detroit, Cleveland and Grand Rapids markets. 
In making any change in our business we al- 
ways consider our customers' interests as well as 
our own, and we are confident that the important 
change we announce will prove greatly to the 
interest of our Pacific Coast customers as well as 
to our Inter-Mountain-State customers. During 
the past two years, many of our Pacific Coast and 
British Columbia customers have insisted upon 
having their plants shipped from our Twin Falls 
farm instead of from our Oregon farm. 
At our Twin Falls, Idaho, farm we grow both 
standard and everbearing varieties which are es- 
pecially adapted to the soil and climatic con- 
ditions existing in the Inter-Mountain and Pacific 
Coast States, as well as in British Columbia. 
Practically every variety grown at Twin Falls, 
has been tested throughout the entire West and 
has proved successful for that country. Of 
course, some varieties will succeed better than 
others in certain localities in the West, the same 
as in the central and eastern states, and the ex- 
perience we have had growing strawberries and 
strawberry plants in the West, has acquainted us 
with the varieties which are especially adapted 
to the different soils, climatic conditions and alti- 
tudes which are common there and we shall be 
glad to assist our Western customers in the se- 
lection of varieties which are best adapted to 
their particular conditions. 
At the close of our shipping season at Canby in 
the spi-ing of 1915, we ordered all plants then 
growing at Canby to be plowed under. We are 
advised that some Western growers are offering 
so-called Kellogg plants. This is to notify our 
friends that Kellogg plants may be purchased 
nowhere else except from our Three Rivers, 
Michigan, or Twin Falls, Idaho, farms, and any- 
one else offering our plants is offering something 
he cannot furnish and is practicing a deception 
upon the public. 
All correspondence from our Western friends 
should be sent to our office at Three Rivera, 
Michigan, as in the past, and will receive as 
always our prompt and best attention. 
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