.Kellogg's Gxeat Crops 
KELLOGG'S THOROUGHBREDS IN AN ORCHARD 
THIS illustration is a photograph of our Thoroughbreds in the orchard of G W. Grecian of Riverside I 
A Mr. Grecian writes under date of July 23, 1907: "We have just finished our strawberry picking. We 
offered $140.00 by a commercial grower for one patch 100x88 feet, he to do the picking. He said he never 
seen such berries." 
If for any reason you cannot haul manure 
during v/inter, then wait until spring, plow your 
ground as outlined above, and set the plants. 
After this is done you may spread line manure 
between the rows and the cultivator will mix the 
manure into the soil. We often have manured 
our plants in this way, and the results are excel- 
lent. In fact, it is an ideal way. 
In some localities stable manure cannot be 
had, and in such cases commercial fertilizers 
may be used. A fertilizer best adapted to the 
needs of the strawberry should contain the three 
principal plant-food ingredients in about the 
following proportions: 
Nitrogen 3 per cent. 
Potassium 9 per cent. 
Phosphorus 7 per cent. 
Almost any of the companies that manufac- 
ture fertilizers will prepare you a special brand 
on this order. A commercial fertilizer should be 
applied and thoroughly worked into the soil be- 
fore the plants are set. 
Marking Out the Rows 
WHETHER you are a large or small grow- 
er, much hoeing and hand work may be 
eliminated by marking out the field so that the 
cuhivator may go through in both directions. 
We hit upon this plan in the spring of 1 907 and 
marked out 100 acres in this way. It saved a 
great deal of expense in hoeing. We first 
marked out the rows four feet apart, using for 
this work a common corn planter. Then we 
went in the opposite direction with a marker 
composed of six wheels, which were placed 
twenty-eight inches apart on a common gas-pipe 
axle. The shafts were also of gas pipe (see 
Page 24) . By setting plants in each cross-mark 
we secured perfectly straight rows in each di- 
rection, four feet apart one way, twenty-eight 
inches the other. When cultivating the four- 
foot space, the cultivator was set about thirty 
inches wide, going twice through each space; 
and when going through the narrow way the 
tool was narrowed to about twenty-four inches, 
going only once through each space at each culti- 
vation. We cultivated in both directions until 
July I , at which time runners had started, and 
then cultivation was confined entirely to the 
four-foot space. By cultivating in both direc- 
tions until July, we kept control of the weeds, 
and it was easy to care for the plants the bal- 
ance of the season. 
BEFORE setting plants it is best to prune the 
roots back about one-third. Cutting off 
the ends of the roots causes them to callous and 
