MR. MAT O'DONNEL OF KANSAS AND HIS FIELD OF KELLOGG PLANTS 
THESE plants were purchased from us in 1914 and the photograph was made the following April, just before they 
had started to bloom. This picture shows a portion of Mr. O'Donnel's one acre of strawberries. In 1915 he 
purchased 3300 more Kellogg Pedigree Plants and he says they arrived in fine condition and every plant lived and 
grew the same as the plants shown in this picture. From this photograph it is readily seen that Kellogg Pedigree 
Plants succeed splendidly in Kansas. 
rained almost continuously throughout the 
summer and fall months. Throughout each of 
these two extreme seasons, the everbearers in 
our experimental plots continued to grow and 
fruit heavily until about Thanksgiving time. We 
picked and sold berries after the ground was 
frozen to an inch in depth. The following spring 
these plants were again loaded with berries and 
this was repeated in the fall. 
As a result of the enormous yield of the ever- 
bearers in our experimental plots in 1914, the pro- 
prietors of Maplehurst Gardens of Three Rivers, 
who formerly grew vegetables, discontinued grow- 
ing the crops which they had been growing and 
engaged in the growing of everbearing straw- 
berries exclusively, setting in the spring of 1915 
twelve acres to the everbearing varieties. 
Their fall crop in 1915 was so exceedingly prof- 
itable that in the spring of 1916 they doubled 
their planting. Not only was their fall crop in 
1915 enormous, but the prices realized for the 
berries were almost unbelievable. The berries 
were shipped to commission houses in distant 
cities such as Buffalo, Philadelphia, Cleveland. 
St. Louis, Kansas City, Cincinnati, Chicago, and 
Milwaukee. We saw their sales reports which 
showed prices ranging from 30 to 45 cents per 
quart wholesale. One of our Three Rivers friends 
was in Milwaukee, Wis. late in October 1915, and 
while there, visited the commission firm of 
Schmidt, Gaertner, Voile & Co. and saw them 
selling fresh strawberries. Upon inquiring he 
learned that these berries came from Maplehurst 
Gardens, located in his own home town. He was 
informed by the secretary of the commission firm 
that the berries were sold at 35 cents per quart 
long before they arrived, and that even at that 
price they could not begin to supply the demand. 
This friend told us that the berries were as firm 
and solid as though they had just been picked, 
and that he never before thought it possible for 
strawberries to stand up so well in shipping. 
There are just three reasons for the success of 
the Maplehurst Gardens— they use Kellogg Pedi- 
gree Plants exclusively, manure liberally, and fol- 
low the hill system. 
The everbearers always should be grown in hills. 
They are even more easily grown in this way than 
the standard varieties because they do not make 
runners so freely. For this reason everbearing 
plants cannot be sold as cheaply as are the stand- 
ard varieties. But owing to the fact that they 
produce berries almost continuously from June to 
November, and that the fall crop brings such big 
prices, growers can well afford to pay the price 
charged for the everbearers. 
Mr. E. H. Favor of the Fruit Grower, St. Jo- 
seph, Mo., visited our farm in July, 1916 and in- 
formed us that one of his friends in the suburbs 
of St. Joseph had less than one-third of an acre 
set to the everbearers, which made him over 
$400.00 the same season the plants were set. 
This grower applied manure liberally between the 
rows, and it goes without saying that he uses 
Kellogg Pedigree Plants. 
We are continually receiving letters from our 
customers telling of the big yields and big profits 
realized from the everbearers, but even with what 
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