GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
Copyright 1915 by R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
than indicated here. The prizes oflered, together 
with the profits, are certainly worth worliing for. 
We recommend the hill system for the Boys' 
Contest, because we want to get the new gener- 
ation of strawberry growers started the right 
way— the way to get the largest profits per acre. 
Now, boys, roll up your sleeves and go to it 
with all your might and main. The prizes you 
may win and the profits you are sure to make 
will be worthy of your greatest efforts. We de- 
sire that the boys shall show the men that they 
can double the strawberry yields just as they 
have done in the case of corn. Before the boys' 
corn clubs were organized men thought a hundred 
bushels of corn to the acre was the limit of possi- 
ble production, but the boys have disproved this 
idea by growing more than 200 bushels of corn to 
an acre. Some men who are now making from 
$500 to $800 per acre in the growing of straw- 
berries think they have reached the limit of possi- 
ble strawberry profits. But we know from the 
experience of our customers that we have not yet 
fixed the limit of profits possible from the straw- 
berry. We believe that the Kellogg strawberry 
contest will set a new pace in strawberry grow- 
ing just as the corn contest has done in the case 
of corn. 
Every boy who wins a prize will have his photo- 
graph in our great strawberry book, and we shall 
also show photo-engravings of the best field 
scenes produced under the rules of this contest. 
There is no limit to the things you can ac- 
complish if you try. The only boy who cannot 
succeed in growing strawberries is the boy who 
is afraid to try. 
All Our Varieties Are Good 
XATE have spent more than thirty years in se- 
*• lecting the varieties which are listed in this 
book and during this time as many or more va- 
rieties have been discarded because they did not 
come up to our ideas of quality. During these 
years we have continued rejecting and selecting 
until we now have an assortment of varieties 
which are worthy of highest recommendation. 
We occasionally receive letters from those who 
have had no experience growing strawberries, 
calling our attention to the fact that we describe 
all our varieties as being so good that it makes it 
difficult for them to make a choice. We admit 
that it is difficult for beginners to make a choice 
from such a wide list of good varieties, but when 
they understand that we assume the responsibil- 
ity of making a choice for them if they so desire, 
and that we are greatly interested in choosing 
varieties that will succeed best in their particular 
soil and under their climatic conditions, all doubts 
are removed. We have no desire to sell more 
plants of one variety than another but in the 
nature of things some varieties are more uni- 
versally successful than others. In making se- 
lections we always choose plants from the va- 
rieties which have proved their worth in the lo- 
cality where plants are to be grown. 
In making a choice of varieties it must be 
Mnderstood that each variety has its own indi- 
viduality and characteristics and that some va- 
rieties will adapt themselves to all soils and cli- 
matic conditions, while other varieties will be 
more profitable in certain localities than others. 
All who receive this book should understand that 
each variety listed is described according to its 
own performance in the locality where it succeeds 
best, and that each and every variety will ap- 
prove the description it bears, providing the pur- 
chaser's conditions are in harmony with the na- 
ture of the variety selected and providing also 
that the grower gives the plants the care and at- 
tention they should have to enable them to do 
what they are capable of doing under favorable 
conditions. 
Made Fortunes With Kellogg Plants 
QNE of the most gratifying features of the 
business of this company is the success so 
frequently reported by our customers, success 
founded and assured through the use of Kellogg 
plants. Here is one instance as reported by E. 
D. Andrews of Ingham county, Michigan: 
'I take great pleasure in writing you in regard to my suc- 
cess with KcUogK strawberry plants. We began with two 
acres some years ago. We did not have a dollar of our own. 
Now we have a house and lot in the capital city of Michigan 
worth J4.000. And it was started on the Kellogg farm." 
And from an old Nebraska patron comes a long 
and fine letter in which he says: 
"It is not too much to say that I owe all that I have in 
the way of property to R. M. Kellogg Co. Years ago. when I 
was absolutely without means, I came across a copy of 'Great 
Crops of Strawberries.' I knew nothing about fruit growing, 
but the book inspired in me the confident hope that here was 
a way to get a start, and so I started in by purchasing some 
Kellogg plants and carefully following the Kellogg Way 
That was years ago. Today I am still in the business, but as I 
am gettmg along in years and enjoy a competence, I have 
turned over to another the growing of the crops, and all that 
I do now 13 to supervise the fields during the picking season 
and see that the berries are properly delivered on the market. 
I repeat that it is to your book and your plants that I owe 
my success and prosperity." 
Such letters as these give to business a human 
mterest that transforms the dullest routine into 
a pleasurable occupation. The highest privilege 
that man is given is to be of service to others; 
and we thank all our friends not only for their 
kind acknowledgements, but for the opportunity 
they have afforded us to serve them. 
Strawberries Double Land Values 
TF you have land which you wish to dispose of 
readily, and at a handsome profit, you can not 
do it to better advantage than by setting it to 
strawberries. Suburban property, or land along 
interurban lines, worth ordinarily $200 per acre, 
should sell readily at $400 to $500 per acre when 
set to strawberries, and the cost of plants and 
the labor required should not exceed $60 per acre. 
Figure the profit for yourself. 
In addition to making it an easy matter for you 
to sell the land, this plan also makes it an at- 
tractive proposition to the purchaser, as it will 
enable him to make his payments from the profits 
derived from the strawberries. 
Thousands of acres have been sold by setting 
to orchards — why not try the plan of setting 
strawberries for this purpose, as the expense in- 
volved is considerably less, and the purchaser 
realizes that he is buying an investment that will 
begin paying dividends almost immediately. 
We are prompted to offer this suggestion as a 
result of letters which have come to us from land 
owners wishing to dispose of their land in small 
tracts, also from suggestions made to us by 
customers from all sections of the country who 
have visited us for the purpose of getting infor- 
mation along this line. The proposition appeals 
very strongly to us, and we see no reason why it 
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