GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
Copyright 1915 by R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
PUMPING PLANT OF OUR NEW IRRIGATION SYSTEM 
THE lower illustration presents an exterior view of our pumping: plant located on the Portage River which flows by the Kel- 
logg farm. The upper picture shows the interior of the plant and the mammoth seventy-five-horse-power motor and pump. 
The piping system is equal to the ordinary city water plant of a town of 5,000 population and will furnish water to the entire 
225 acres composing our great strawberry farm. It is said by experts to be one of the most complete installations ever made. 
veloped plants. We always have enjoyed the 
reputation of producing the most perfectly 
developed plants, as well as the most produc- 
tive plants grown, and now with our over- 
head irrigation system we are producing 
plants superior in every way to the plants 
which we produced before the installation of 
this system. The continuous supply of 
moisture which we are now able to furnish 
our plants not only enables us to grow a 
stronger and more fruitful plant with a 
heavier root system, but it also enables us 
to grow more plants per acre, which makes 
it possible for us to sell the plants at a lower 
price than ever before. 
We are confident that everyone who sets 
the Kellogg Pedigree plants in 1916 will 
agree with us that they are as perfectly de- 
veloped as nature and man can produce. 
After carefully looking into all the dif- 
ferent systems of irrigation, we decided 
upon the Skinner system, because we were 
fully convinced that this system gave the 
most even distribution of water, and ap- 
plied it in the most natural form. And 
after a season's use of this system we are 
satisfied that we made a wise choice. We 
heartily recommend this system to anyone 
who contemplates irrigating, and we suggest 
that those who are interested write The 
Skinner Irrigation Company, Troy, O., for 
full information regarding cost of instal- 
lation, etc. We never have dealt with any 
firm that has treated us more courteously 
and fairly than this company. They are the 
leaders in overhead irrigation and have a 
splendid service department through which 
all questions are answered, and complete in- 
formation is furnished. Many strawberry 
growers already have installed the Skinner 
Overhead Irrigation System, and have found 
it a very profitable investment. The increase 
in yield alone the first year has in many 
cases paid the entire cost. We wish it un- 
derstood that we have no interest whatever 
in the Skinner Irrigation Company, but we 
know from our own personal experience that 
their system does all and more than they 
claim. We are interested in our custom- 
ers, and we are recommending the Skinner 
system because it has proved so satisfactory 
and so profitable to us. Growers who have 
used the Kellogg Pedigree plants have found 
that 8,000 quarts of strawberries per acre 
is a common yield, and many growers have 
succeeded in getting as many as 12,000 to 
16,000 quarts from a single acre in a single 
season without irrigation, but if these yields 
can be increased sufliciently by irrigation to 
pay the entire cost the first season, is not irri- 
gation a good investment? 
For the benefit of those who may decide 
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