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R. M. KELLOGG'S GREAT CROPS ON 
Conlideuce of Cnsf oniers. 
When you have done this thoroughly you will 
find it a big stock in trade. Never sell any- 
thing to a customer that is not wliat they think 
they are paying for. Keep posted on all mat- 
ters pertaining to fruit and be prepared to 
explain all the latest points in canning, and see 
that they are supplied with an abundance of 
each kind for that purpose. Exercise your 
skill as a salesman and you will soon hear more 
about getting fruit to supply the home market 
than a market for what you grow. 
Berry Boxes. 
We have had our boxes for many years from 
the large establishment of the Wells-Higman 
Co., proprietors ot the Michigan basket works 
of St. Joseph, Michigan. They send out first 
class stock and make anything you want in the 
basket line. 
How Many Crops 
can be picked before plowing under? This all 
depends on circumstances. If your plantation 
yields from two to four hundred bushels ot 
fine fruit you will probably never get half that 
again, and stand a decidedly poor chance to get 
a fourth of it. Of course a second crop can be 
raised cheaper, as you do not lose the year to 
raise new plants and no expense for re-setting. 
It the beds have been mulched and burned 
over as directed, and free from grass, there will 
be 
Very Little Hoeing: 
required. If the soil is not rich enough to 
produce a good growth, fine rotted manure can 
easily be drawn onto the field, or an application 
of wood ashes can be made, and the second 
crop might be profitable. If you get caught 
with spring frosts, or for any reason you get a 
light crop the first season, and things are 
favorable, you may expect a big crop the sec- 
ond and third years if the plants are not 
allowed to make too many runners. Go 
through and tear them off with the hands. 
The fruit will not be as large and fine as the 
first year. Fully three-fourths of the planta- 
tions in the west produce three crops, but 
the second and third rarely go over thirty to 
fifty bushels per acre and this does not pay to 
fuss with. 
In the vicinity of Boston and many other 
large cities where land is high and a fancy 
trade to cater to, it is almost a universal prac- 
tice to take only one crop. We believe the 
grower who practices taking otT only one crop, 
plows under and enriches his land and sets 
again next ."eason, will have a better hold of 
the market and get the most for his work, and 
be much less liable to get the ground infested 
with insects. If the white grub don't catch 
you, and fertility of soil is maintained, there is 
no trouble in raising berries on the same land 
year after year, any more than corn and pota- 
toes, but like all other crops a rotation is much 
more profitable if it can be done. If you raise 
a second crop you must set out a small bed 
from which to raise plants the next year. If 
you take plants from the bed after fruiting a 
very large crop, then good-bye big crops for 
many years. 
How Many Bushels 
ought a fruit grower to expect from an acrel" 
If his soil is rich in nitrogen and jjroperly fed 
with potash and phosphoric acid as his soil 
requires and he is given the care in selecting 
plants that are heavy fruiters as explained 
elsewhere he ought not to get less than two 
i hundred bushels and has good reasons to ex- 
j pect three or four hundred bushels per acre. 
, In addition to this you have the right of way 
, in selling as such a grade of fruit always has a 
j walk away even in a glutted market. Both 
You and Your Farm 
I will enjoy a reputation of which you may 
justly be proud. Such fruit always commands 
enough more than common fruit to pay all 
extra intelligently directed work and will leave 
more than the ordinary crop for a 
Clear Profit. 
As ordinarily grown strawberries will not 
average over fifty to sixty bushels to the acre 
and many acres do not grow thirty bushels of 
small and every way inferior berries. There is 
not in the general market where there is sharj) 
competition and frequent gluts a cent of profit 
to the grower. 
You have no more right to expect to make 
money by fruiting from scrub stock than a 
breeder expects to raise fine, large easily kept 
and easily fattened animals by breeding from 
common barnyard scrubs. As explained in the 
first article every disadvantage you encounter 
in the animal kingdom is found in propagating 
in the vegetable world. 
