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R. M. KELLOGG'S GREAT CROPS ON 
through to the close of the season a bonus of 
}^ cent is added to each quart they have 
picked. This evens up the good and bad pick- 
ing and gives the best satisfaction. 
The rules are printed and placed up in the 
packing house and all understand them. It 
paid in full every day or week it is very difficult 
to control them, and you never know who you 
can depend on to do your work. 
Rows are Numbered 
by placing a stake in the center of each row 
with a square board nailed on and figures large 
enough to be seen from every part of tlie field 
and when a picker commences on a row the 
number is put opposite their name in the over- 
seers' book. So it a plant is injured or berries 
not picked clean we can tell any time who did 
it. 
Pickers Sometimes Get Laxy 
when near the end of the row and not immedi- 
ately under the superintendent's eye. If they 
know they can't do mischief without being 
caught at it, they are generally vf))/ good. If 
you can once get pickers accustomed to work 
without talking they will get on taster and bet- 
ter and much of the personal bickering will be 
dispensed with. A loud mouthed boy or girl 
who is always finding fault is a nuisance and is 
discharged at once. 
Thk PlONIC. 
We always celebrate the close of the berry 
season. We clip the following from the Ionia 
Daily Standard: 
"The picnic of the Rushire berry pickers at 
Woodard Lake Wednesday was a marked suc- 
cess. Mr. Kellogg says that he enjoyed him- 
self immensely in the company of the boys and 
girls who had served him so faithfully during 
the season in the field. The fact that Mr. Kel- 
logg gives steady employment at good wages 
all through the school vacation enables him to 
command the very best help in picking his 
berries. A strict discipline is maintained in 
the field, and not an improper word or act 
permitted, all being under the watchful eye of 
an efficient superintendent. Mr. Kellogg is 
himself a student of horticulture, always on 
the alert for every improvement that will 
enable him to place his fruit on the market in 
the best possible shape, which accounts tor the 
tact that while other growers are hunting tor 
a market, his products are nearly always sold 
long in advance." 
How to Eat Strawberries. 
The very height of strawberry-eating is with 
coffee. Nobody ever really tasted coffee who 
has not drunk it in alternate mouthtuls with 
strawberries, and nobody knows the strawberry 
flavor e.tcepting immediately after the clearing 
of the taste which comes from drinking coftee. 
The clearing property of coffee is familiar 
enough, but there is strange ignorance of this 
special application of it. The best of straw- 
berries with the best of coffee make the 
supreme refinement of indulgence in the fruit. 
- N. y. Post. 
PlSTIU^ATH VaRII-.TIKS. 
Staminate, Pistillate, 
or pkriecx flower. oh iml'krfect flower. 
are designated by a letter " P," and a staminate 
variety or bi-&e.\ual by " B," must be planted 
every third or fourth row to furnish pollen, or 
you will get very little or no fruit. The variety 
selected to furnish pollen should bloom a little 
earlier than the pistillate. 
Perfect and Imperfect Flowerin(i Varie- 
ties COMPABED. 
The following was the result of a test at the 
Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, made 
under the direction of Prof. W. J. Green: 
A list comprising eight each of the leading 
perfect and imperfect flowered varieties of 
strawberries was sent to several prominent 
strawberry growers, requesting them to mark 
the different varieties us to productiveness on 
a scale of 0 to 10. The averages agree very 
closely with the grades given at the Station 
before the lists were sent out. Below are the 
average for each variety and for the two 
classes: 
