R. M. KELLOGG'S GREAT CROPS 
The Spade is a Villainous Tool, 
anyliow. It 
leaves a 
f lazed sur- 
a c e and 
when press- 
ed together 
incases the 
roots in a 
sort of plas- 
tered wall 
through 
which no 
feeding root 
. ■ can pene- 
trate. After it has been set ten days, pull 
it up and see the little white roots chasing 
up and down the old root till it can find a 
crack in the wall through which it may get 
to the mellow soil only a sixteenth of an 
inch beyond. 
Figure 8. 
On the contrary the I'ertection Plant 
Setter fines the earth and every root is 
imbedded in mellow soil; none are crossed, 
tangled or matted under the crown. No 
hindrance to new roots starting anywhere 
and if you pull it up two weeks after setting 
you find the roots as seen in figure 8. 
Every Ko«t Doing Its Work, every 
one healthy and throwing out numerous 
feeders in every direction. A plant strong 
in fruiting vigor will thus be able to furnish 
"big berries and lots of them" at fruiting 
time and swell the bank account accord- 
ingly. 
CULTIVATING. 
The ground is now packed down with the 
feet and capillary action brings the water 
to the surface to be carried off by the hot 
sun and drying winds and it must be 
stopped at once. We cultivate at noon all 
the plants set before dinner. We use the 
Zephaniah Breed Weeder, manufactured by 
the Breed Weeder Co., 26 Merchant's Row, 
Boston, Mass. We have no interest in the 
sale of this machine, but you can address 
them as above. It is the greatest labor sav- 
ing tool ever invented and works to perfec- 
tion. No matter how many weeds or how 
close to the plant, 11 will puil every one out 
without the slightest injury to the plant and 
leave a fine loose earth on top so the force 
of gravitation overcomes that of capillary 
action, and the water collects under the 
loosened earth and must remain there to 
nourish the plants. 
We go over our fields with this tool about 
every lour days, one man and horse doing 
at the rate of twelve acres per day. We 
set about twenty-five acres every year and 
this one man does the work formerly done 
by fifteen to twenty men and does it very 
much better. We do no hand weeding all 
summer. If my enemy comes in the night 
and sows ten bushels of weed seed per acre 
on my strawberry bed, I have the best of 
him, for I kill the weeds while I am fighting 
the drouth and he has put me to no incon- 
venience vvhatever. No small weed can 
escape this tool and it will not injure a plant 
once per month, provided the plants have 
been set with the Perfection Plant Setter. 
Why? Because if the plants are set too 
low the ends of the teeth will catch in the 
crown and tear it off. If set too high the 
teeth will catch in the roots and tear it out, 
but if set with this machine, just right, being 
braced with roots in every direction (see 
fig. 8) the teeth will dodge around the 
crowns and you can't make it pull out or 
injure a plant. I wish to say here, that I 
would not sign a contract engaging not to 
use these four tools (Subsoiler, Perfection 
Plant Setter, Automatic Runner Cutter, and 
Breed Weeder) for one tliousaurl dol- 
lars per year. They will bring me much 
more clear cash. 
HILL. CULTURE. 
If you have a weeding machine, set 30x18 
inches. If you do not have the weeder, 
set 30x30 inches and cultivate both ways 
with a Planet Jr. 12-tooth cultivator and 
pulverizer attachment, another of the grand- 
est tools ever made. 
Hill Culture may be called the process of 
consoHdatinfc many little plants into one 
large plant which shall send its roots down 
