•M.Kellogg's Gh^eai Crops of <^ 
KELLOGG'S THOROUGHBREDS AMONG THE ORANGE TREES 
A VIEW sent us by George S. Bisbee of Pomona, California. The photograph was taken just five months after 
the plants were set. A remarkable fact when you stop to consider that these plants were shipped two thous- 
and five hundred miles. Only plants of great vitality could make such rapid advance under such conditions. 
to take advantage of every device of this 
kind. 
Removing Blossoms From Spring-set Plants 
YV/ILL the Kellogg strain of plants produce 
berries the same season they are set out? 
This is a question that often comes to us. We 
answer "Yes," aaid lots of them, too, but to 
allow them to do so would greatly weaken the 
plants, and the loss in the long run would be 
much greater than the gain. 
Strawberry plants that are set out in the 
spring should not be permitted to fruit until the 
followring spring, and the way to keep them from 
fruiting is simply to pinch or cut off the fruit 
stems. This work should be done before the 
bloom opens or immediately afterwards. This 
is not a difficult task, neither does it require 
much time. One man easily may remove the 
blossoms from two or three acres of strawberry 
plants in a single day. Relieving the plants of 
the bloom in this manner keeps them from being 
weakened through pollen exhaustion or through 
seed production. Just as soon as you remove 
the bloom from young plants you relieve them of 
the necessity of spending their energies in the 
direction of fruit production, and so they quickly 
start to work building up a massive root system. 
And with a good root system a big healthy 
foliage is made, and from the strong foliage and 
root system combined comes the large and vigor- 
ous crowTis from which the fruit-bud system is 
developed which is to give great yields of big 
red berries. Allowing the young plant to bear 
fruit before it becomes well established in its 
new quarters would have the same effect upon 
the future of the plant as overworking a young 
colt would have upon the effectiveness of the 
horse that is to be. 
Cultivation of Plants 
V/OU may have your soil filled with the very 
richest of plant food in perfectly balanced 
form and the plants may be of the highest 
quality; but without cultivation the plants will 
not do their best. Plants cannot use raw or 
unprepared food any more than can the members 
of the human family. It is cultivation that in- 
corporates the unprepared or raw materials with 
the soil, while at the same time this stirring of 
the soil creates a dust mulch over the surface of 
the ground which holds the moisture in the soil. 
It is this moisture that dissolves the plant food 
and extracts the mineral matter from the soil 
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