STRAWBERRIES AND POULTRY 
THIS picture of Kellogg Pedigree Plants was sent us by John W. Selinger of Pennsylvania, and shows how nicely 
strawberries can be gro\vn in connection with poultry. The picture also shows that Mr. Selinger follows closely 
the Kellogg Way. There are no weeds to be seen. Nothing but straight, uniform, rows of vigorous strawberry 
plants. If you already are growing poultry, add strawberries; use the poultry droppings for fertilizer and your 
profits will be more than doubled. 
Michigan customers, v/ho follows the hill system, 
when visiting our farm told us that the grocer 
who handled his berries was unable to supply the 
demand for them, while commonly grown berries, 
which were offered at several cents less per quart, 
remained in the store until all of Mr. Baker's 
berries were sold. Mr. Baker also told us that 
he was making a profit of $900 per acre from 
Kellogg Pedigree Plants. 
Some growers who never have tried the hill sys- 
tem, seem to think that removing runners is dif- 
ficult and expensive. This is not the case, as this 
work is very easily done with knife, shears, or 
hoe, and is necessary to be done only every two 
or three weeks; in fact, it is less work to remove 
them than to hoe and cultivate around them. 
We are indeed very enthusiastic over the hill 
system, and the more we experiment with this 
system, the more firmly are we convinced that it 
is the system we should recommend to those who 
place their confidence in us; and we therefore 
urge every customer to adopt this system with 
the full assurance that it is the most profitable 
and most satisfactory way to grow strawberries. 
Other Systems 
lATHILE we are confident that the hill system 
is the easiest and most profitable way to 
grow strawberries, there are other systems which 
may be followed with most satisfactory results. 
These are the single hedge, and the double or 
triple hedge-row systems. 
The single hedge-row is formed as follows: 
The rows are made three feet apart and plants 
set two feet apart in the rows. Each of these 
plants should oe allowed to make two runner 
plants, which should be layered directly in line 
with the origrinal row, one on each side of the 
mother plant. This gives continuous rows with 
plants about twelve inches apart in the row. 
After the rows have been thus formed, ail other 
runners should be pruned off. Where land is 
scarce, the rows may be made twenty-four to 
thirty inches apart instead of three feet. The 
single hedge-row system requires 7,250 plants per 
acre. 
The double or triple hedge-row is formed by 
making the rows three and one-half feet apart 
and setting plants two feet apart in the rows. 
Each of these plants should be allowed to make 
six runner plants. The first two runners of each 
plant should be layered directly in line with the 
original row, one on each side of the mother 
plant, and the remainder should be layered on 
each side of the row. When runners are layered 
in this manner, the rows will be about one foot 
wide, and each plant will have plenty of room to 
develop into a heavy fruiter. After the rows 
have been thus formed, all other runners should 
be pruned off the same as in the single hedge- 
row. This system requires 6,250 plants per acre. 
Another system, and one which we do not 
under any circumstances recommend, is the wide 
matted row, which is formed by making rows 
from three and one-half to four feet apart, and 
setting plants two feet apart in the rows, allow- 
ing each plant to make all the runners it will. 
This naturally g:ives a thickly matted row which 
produces small, inferior berries; the kind which 
never brings a profitable price. 
Strawberry Growing Easy and Simple 
IT is so easy and so simple to grow strawberries 
that even beginners grow big crops and make 
big profits right from the very start. It re- 
quires less work and less experience to grow straw- 
berries than it does to grow common garden vege- 
tables, because garden vegetables must be plant- 
ed every year, while one planting of strawberries 
will fruit abundantly for two years, and often for 
three years. Nothing contributes more to the re- 
quirements of the family than a well-kept straw- 
berry garden. It furnishes strawberries fresh 
from the vines from June to November, and can- 
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