GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
Copyright 1915 by R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
fertilizing it also will grow strawberries. The 
manure or commercial fertilizer should be spread 
evenly over the ground after plowing or spading, 
and should be worked thoroughly into the soil be- 
fore plants are set. Make the soil fine and firm, as 
plants of nokind will succeed where there are clods. 
Strawberry plants are set the same as cabbage 
or tomato plants. Simply make an opening in 
the soil and place the 
roots straight down in- 
to the opening, and 
press the soil firmly 
against the roots. See 
that the crown of the 
plant is above the sur- 
face of the soil. 
After plants are set, 
cultivate with garden 
rake, hoe, or hand culti- 
vator. This will cover 
up your tracks and will 
make a dust mulch 
that will prevent the 
escape of moisture and 
also will prevent the 
formation of crust. 
Continue cultivating 
the same as with 
garden vegetables. To 
grow either good vege- 
tables or strawberries, 
cultivation should be 
repeated every week or 
ten days throughout 
the growing season. 
Nothing aids plant 
growth of all kinds so 
greatly as continued 
cultivation, and re- 
member that straw- 
berry plants do not like 
to associate with weeds 
and grass. 
Remove all fruiting 
stems as soon as the 
blossoms begin to open, 
and if you wish to grow 
the plants in hills, re- 
move all runners as fast 
as they appear. 
If you intend to let 
your plants grow in 
rows, allow the runners 
to form and root until 
your rows are as wide 
as you wish, after 
which time the balance 
of the runners should 
be cut off when hoeing. 
Mulch your plants 
with straw, marsh hay, 
or coarse strawy ma- 
nure after the first 
heavy freeze. When 
work. 
doing this work, you 
should cover the entire 
ground occupied by your garden. In the spring, 
remove the mulching which lies directly on the 
rows of plants. Simply rake the mulching from 
over the rows of plants into the spaces between 
the rows. The everbearing varieties should 
have their blossoms removed as fast as they 
appear until the latter part of June. After this 
date, all blossoms that appear may be allowed 
A BUNCH OF SUPERBS 
T^HIS bunch was taken from a shipment of twenty thousand 
* Superb plants, which were shipped from our Twin Falls, 
Idaho, farm to Three Rivers, a distance of over two thousand 
miles. We had this bunch photographed to show how our 
plants are cleaned and bunched, and also to show how per- 
fectly they retain their srrowinj? vijfor while in transit. Tiie 
entire twenty thousand plants were in the same perfect con- 
dition as the plants in the bunch shown here. After this 
bunch was photo^aphed, the plants were set and every plant 
grew. See illustration on opposite page. The balance of the 
plants in this shipment were sold to a neighbor grower. 
They were set by inexperienced men, yet the grower has a 
most perfect stand, and one of the most beautiful strawberry 
fields we ever have seen. It is only further proof of the vigor- 
ous nature of the Kellogg plants and the big yields they give. 
to develop fruit. We here refer to the season 
in which the plants are set. The second season 
it is unnecessary to remove any blossoms from 
either the everbearing or standard varieties. 
If these simple rules are followed, you will be 
delighted with the abundant crop of delicious 
berries your garden will produce, and the children 
will dancp for joy. Please the children and the 
entire family will be 
happy. 
Kellogg Acre 
Selections 
'PHE Kellogg acre se- 
lections are for the 
benefit of those who 
prefer to leave to us 
the selection for larger 
areas than are contem- 
plated in the garden se- 
lections. It gives us 
great pleasure to as- 
sume this responsibili- 
ty because as a result 
of more than thirty 
years' experience in 
this line we feel con- 
fident that our se- 
lections will give to our 
customers the largest 
degree of success. 
If, therefore, you 
wish to take advantage 
of our free service, 
give us a complete des- 
cription of your soil, 
indicate whether you 
wish to grow an acre or 
more, or one-half acre, 
or one-quarter acre, 
and we shall promptly 
make up a complete 
list of varieties which 
will mate congenially 
and that will be es- 
pecially adapted to 
your particular con- 
ditions. Be sure and 
advise us whether you 
will grow the plants hill 
system, single -hedge 
or triple-hedge row. 
With this information 
in mind we shall advise 
you as to the number of 
plants required and 
submit for your ap- 
proval a complete se- 
lection which will be 
particularly adapted to 
your requirements. 
After carefully con- 
sidering our selection 
you will, of course, be 
free 
to make such 
changes as you deem wise or to adopt the se- 
lection as made. In your particular case we 
might choose from more varieties than you 
would care to grow; or, you might wish to set 
out more varieties than we had chosen, or again, 
you might prefer more plants of earlier or more 
plants of later varieties than we select. Such 
changes as these would not affect the general re- 
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