GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
Copyright X915 by R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
writea us as follows: "I have convinced my friends and neigh- 
bors that the Kellogg berries can hold their own in Kentucky, 
a southern climate, as they do elsewhere. Those who pre- 
dicted my berries would be worthless are now using quantities 
of commercial fertilizer to stimulate their plants for another 
year. The Kellogg plants surely are a success in this section." 
Mrs. Gordon B. Fuller of Ohio sends us the following: "I saw 
in a strawberry-plant catalog from another Michigan town 
the following: 'We guarantee our plants to be as good as Kel- 
log's or any other thoroughbred man.' That speaks well for 
you, as one usually says. His goods are as good as the best.' " 
Mrs. Susan Talbot Bawden of Ohio expresses her apprecia- 
tion of the assistance we have rendered her as follows: "Your 
letter has been a comfort and a joy ever since, because it made 
me feel sure that there was one company that could be de- 
pended upon. I want to do everything just right, if I can, be- 
cause that patch of strawberries just must help me put my 
two boys through college." 
Mrs. Wm. L. Sprague of Massachusetts says: "When the 
strawberry plants reached me the 3rd of May in such beauti- 
ful condition I could not help but exclaim, 'Such fine plants!' 
The roots were fine, and I am sure, if those plants do not suc- 
ceed, it will certainly be due to no fault of the plants you sent 
me. It surely was a pleasure to set them out." 
Mrs. Hezekiah Fox of Maryland wrote us under date of June 
2, 1915: "I wish you could see what those wonderful plants 
are doing that you sent me a year ago. The fruit is ripening 
and the berries are simply wonderful." 
Mrs. E. Hendee of Illinois writes under date of April 18. 
1915: "I am more than pleased with the plants just received, 
and shall always recommend Kellogg plants." 
Rose H. Gay of Gold Hill. Oregon, writes: "The strawberry 
plants ordered from you are looking splendidly, and we are 
much pleased with them." 
Mrs. Mary L. Montgomery of Washington writes as follows: 
"The plants I bought of you last spring are simply splendid, 
and my ever-bearing plants did very well. When the snow 
came they were full of berries and bloom. They were a won- 
der to people here." 
Mrs. H. B. Mick of West Virginia says: *'I received my 
berry plants in fine shape. I am delighted with them, as I 
never saw such a nice lot of plants before." 
How to Get a Productive Home 
'T'HE best asset on earth is a piece of the earth, 
* and we know both f ronm personal experience 
and the experience of numberless growers that 
the best and quickest way to get that piece of 
earth is by growing strawberries. The profits 
from one acre of strawberries in a single season 
will buy two or three acres of high-priced land. 
Many of our customers are doing better than this. 
Mr. Chandler of LaGrange, Oregon, paid for a 
fine and beautiful home from the proceeds of less 
than one acre of strawberries. He is just an ordi- 
nary every-day man, and what he has done, any 
hustler can do if he will make the try. Every 
man owes it to himself and his family to own their 
own home, and with a little effort this is possible. 
If you are not in a position to pay cash, you can 
lease a few acres for a term of years, with the 
privilege of buying. Land that is worth $200 per 
acre, will have a tangible value of $500 per acre 
as soon as set to strawberries. The value of land 
is based upon its productive power. The more 
dollars you can make each acre produce the more 
valuable your land becomes, and there is no other 
crop so sure and none that will produce so many 
dollars per acre and do it so quickly, as straw- 
berries. The soil is the source of everything we 
eat and wear, and the sooner we own a part of 
this source, the sooner we are assured of plenty 
and become independent. 
If you will lease five or ten acres of land with 
the privilege of buying, and will set one or more 
acres to strawberries each year, the profits from 
the crops soon will pay for the land, and enable 
you to build a comfortable home upon it, and by 
the time you have accomplished this, your land 
will have doubled or trebled in value. We have 
observed that those who make a special effort to 
get a home, generally succeed. It is better to 
pay taxes on your own home than to pay your 
landlord's taxes and a big profit on his invest- 
ment besides, and when you are paying for your 
own home, every dollar you spend on it beautifies 
and increases the value of your own property. 
When you are buying a home for yourself, you 
have something to look forward to, and you are 
encouraged to do your dead level best. 
The fellow who is paying for his own home, 
views life differently from the fellow who pays 
rent. A productive home not only gives yoiar 
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