R. M. KELLOGCS GREAT CROPS OF 
feet apart each way. Give the most thorough 
cultivation, keeping the surface loose to con- 
serve moisture. When runners start spread 
them out in all directions so each shall have 
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plenty of sunlight to encourage the tendency 
to form fruit buds. 
Layer each ruatier as soon as leaves form 
by laying a small stone or some soil on them 
so they will root quickly. The plants will be 
all the better if some system of irrigation can 
be had to maintain moisture. 
Under no circumstances select low ground. 
You can get great quantities of plants but 
they will be weak and lacking in all desirable 
qualities. As soon as ground is frozen in the 
fall, mulch with straw or chaff and in taking 
them up in spring, discard all tip plants and 
those of immature roots. When plants are 
taken up for re-setting alongside the fruiting 
bed as is usually done, very many are tip 
If you desire to fruit 3'ourbed the second and 
third year, order a few Pedigree Plants the 
year before, and grow the plants needed for 
renewing your own grounds. 
CHEAP PLANTS. 
Since small fruit growing has become a lead- 
ing and profitable industry there has been a 
large demand for strawberry plants. Many 
persons have secured low land with a quick 
sand subsoil which causes the plants to become 
viney,that is the soil forces them into making 
a mass of runners, crowding them together over 
the entire surface of the grounds 
It is needless to say that plants propagated 
in this way lose their tendency to form fruit 
buds. Several of these parties have even ad- 
vertised Pedigree Plants, offering them as low 
as $1.25 per 1,000, assuring customers they only 
weigh twelve to fifteen pounds per 1,000 plants, 
packed. Any planter can readily understand 
that plants which weigh only that amount are 
very inferior in every respect. They could not 
be otherwise. 
Genuine Pedigree Plants weigh on an aver- 
plants with immature roots, and the new plan- 
tation is sure to be spotted and irregular from 
which you cannot expect a full crop of fruit. 
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age at least three times as much, and it is an 
absolute impossibility to grow them and put 
them on the market at that price. There is an 
old and true maxim that when a man is so 
anxious to do so much for you without reason- 
able pay he is a good man to let alone. When 
the harvest comes you will find these " cheap " 
plants are very expensive. A thing is never 
truly cheap unless it has value. 
PLANTS FOR THE SOUTH. 
All the leading truck and berry growers in 
the south use only northern grown seeds and 
plants for the reason that the northern sum- 
mers are very short and hot and they acquire 
the habit of ripening their fruit several days 
earlier than the same variety propagated at 
the south. 
The new runners will retain these charac- 
teristics for three or four years so that southern 
planters can get the benefit of this and prop- 
agate their own plants for that length of 
time and then renew their propagating beds 
with northern plants and thus be in the market 
