GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
Copyright 1915 by R. M. Kelloga Co.. Three Rivers, Mich. 
Our Hearts of 
WE are pleased to announce that we are again 
prepared to furnish our customers with the 
famous Hearts of Gold Cantaloupe seed, 
which created so much interest and won such 
great success last year. And we are glad to an- 
nounce that under our revised contract with Col. 
Morrill we are enabled to offer the seed at a 
much lower price than heretofore. Wherever 
the Hearts of Gold cantaloupes have been grown 
they have been declared by everyone to be the 
most profitable of all cantaloupes. Their high 
flavor and deep rich meat make it possible for the 
grower to get the highest price paid for any can- 
taloupes. To taste them is to want more of them, 
and in many towns where they are grown they 
are handled exclusively by the leading grocers 
and are used in preference to all others by the 
leading hotels and restaurants. 
Hearts of Gold cantaloupes have yielded more 
than $700.00 per acre in a single season. A single 
car netted Mr. Morrill $803. 10 and the car was 
not loaded to full capacity. Cantaloupes and 
strawberries make the best combination of any 
two crops we know. Soil preparation for these 
two crops are practically the same, as both crops 
require plenty of manure, and neither strawber- 
ries or cantaloupes draw very heavily upon the 
soil. Soon after marketingstrawberries you may 
begin marketing cantaloupes, and if you grow 
both standard and everbearing strawberries, as 
well as cantaloupes, you will have a steady in- 
come from early summer until the ground freezes. 
In spite of the very unfavorable weather con- 
ditions that existed practically everywhere in the 
country last season, we have received some 
splendid reports from those who purchased seed 
from us in 1915. One grower away up north in 
Canada wrote us that his three acres of Hearts of 
Gold cantaloupes covered the ground completely 
and that the vines were loaded with melons. 
A very important feature in favor of canta- 
loupes as a money crop, is the fact that it does 
not cost much to get started in the business, 
jold Cantaloupe 
while on the other hand the returns are large and 
are soon realized. In the central and eastern 
states the seed is planted just as soon as the 
danger from frost is past— the latter part of 
May as a rule— and if weather conditions are 
favorable the melons will be ready to pick in 
July, the picking season lastingfour or five weeks. 
Under the present arrangement with Col. Mor- 
rill we are authorized to quote the following prices : 
Seed for one acre $4.00 
Seed for H acre-. _ 2.50 
Seed for Macro 1.50 
Seed for family grarden (about 100 hills) Ill .50 
The seed we offer is from the melons grown by 
Mr. Morrill, and these seeds are cured and dried 
in the same manner as the seed which Col. 
Morrill plants in his own fields, and we can assure 
you that no one can be more particular in the 
matter of selecting melons for seed than Mr. 
Morrill. Therefore, you may buy this seed with 
the full assurance that it is the best and purest 
seed that money can buy. 
Each package contains a sufficient amount of 
seed to replant every hill, if conditions make it 
necessary. Samples of this seed have been care- 
fully tested and found to have exceptionally high 
germinating power, as practically every seed 
tested produced a vigorous plant. 
When hills are planted 4x6 feet apart an acre 
will have room for 1,800 hills. The cost for seed 
will be less than i cent per hill, and the yield 
ranges from 25 to 50 cents per hill. Could you 
make a better investment? 
From W. W. Harrison, a Philadelphia business 
man of large affairs and a long-time customer of 
the R. M. Kellogg Co., we 'received the following 
just as our 1915 book was going to press: 
You may remember that, with the strawberry plants, 1 
also secured a small quantity of your Hearts of Gold canta- 
loupe seed. The result is that you have introduced a variety, 
I think, of great promise. It is of remarkable sweetness, 
rich, golden pink in color, clean to the rind, which is very 
thin, though tough enough for long shipment. It is a remark- 
able fruit. Yours truly, 
W. W. Habeison. 
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