R.M. KELLOGG COMPANY THREE RIVERS. MICH. 
A SINGLE HILL OF KELLOGG'S PROGRESSIVE EVERBEARER 
THIS photo-engraving shows what the Kellogs Pedigree Plants will do when grown in hills the Kellogg Way. 
The basket shown here is a full bushel basket. This photograph was made July 9, soon after the plant had com- 
pleted its early summer crop of berries. You will note that the blossoms for the fall crop are begmnmg to open. 
The center of the hill already was loaded with fruiting stalks and buds when this picture was taken. Practically 
every hill in the entire field was equally as good as the hill shown here. This picture should convince you that it 
pays to set only strong vigorous plants, and to grow them in hills the Kellogg Way. 
the soil-grains closely together and prevents too 
large air spaces. Plants can get no nourishment 
whatever from clods, no matter how rich your 
soil may be. Neither can cloddy and poorly pre- 
pared soil retain moisture during a dry spell, and 
moisture is very necessary, as it dissolves the 
plant food and plays a very important part in as- 
sisting nature to build a large crop. In making 
one acre do the work of two, it is not only neces- 
sary to furnish sufficient building material, but we 
must also set a sufficient number of plants to make 
each square foot contribute its full share toward 
the crop. 
Under the hill system, rows should be 30 inches 
apart and plants set 15 inches apart in the rows 
and all runners should be pruned off, except where 
an occasional plant fails to grow. In that case 
the plant next to this vacant space should be al- 
lowed to make a runner plant, which should be 
layered in such a manner as to fill the vacancy. 
This allows 14,000 plants per acre instead of only 
7,000, the number set under the old and less profit- 
able system. The plants should be set in check 
rows so that they may be cultivated both ways, 
using a horse cultivator for the 30 inch space and 
a hand cultivator for the 16 inch space. This 
leaves but very little work to be done with the 
hoe, as all the hoeing that is necessary is directly 
around the plants where the cultivators do not 
reach, and the cultivating expense is therefore 
reduced to the minimum. It also makes it possi- 
ble to keep the plants free from weeds and obnox- 
ious growths. 
All runners should be pruned off every two or 
three weeks. This may be quickly and cheaply 
done with knife, shears, or hoe. As the runners 
are removed the plants increase in vigor, size, and 
productiveness. Plants grown in this manner 
will develop to such enormous size that their foli- 
age will completly fill the row, and will leave on- 
ly a small space between the rows. The plants 
often grow so large that they can barely be cov- 
ered with a bushel basket. In small garden plots, 
the rows may be made two feet apart, and plants 
set one foot apart in the rows, because in the 
garden cultivation is usually done with hand tools. 
Paae Five 
