K.M.Kellogg's Gheai Crops of 
OUR ASPIHWALL POWER SPRAYING MACHINES 
NO grower who will stop to consider for a moment will take the chances of polluting his fields with destructive in- 
sects and fungous spores by buying cheap plants from propagators who never spray. With our perfect spray- 
ing outfits every plant is protected from any injury through insects or fungi. When you buy Kellogg"s strain of 
Thoroughbreds you have the positive assurance of receiving pure and absolutely healthy plants. The value of this 
one feature is beyond all estimate. 
vation. The work of cultivating is easy and 
inexpensive. One man and horse easily may 
cultivate four acres of strawberry plants a day. 
As we have said, cultivation is a prime essen- 
tial to success. To neglect cultivation is an 
invitation to failure. The more thoroughly this 
work is done, the larger the results are sure to 
be, and it may truly be said that the cultivator 
is one of the strawberry grower's best friends. 
Hoeing the Plants 
BUT carefully as we may go through the rows 
with the cultivator, there still is work to be 
done by the man with the hoe. Every plant 
should receive its share of attention and the grow- 
er should be careful to see that every particle of 
crust about the plants is broken up, and this 
should be done two or three times each month. 
When working near the plants give the hoe a 
circular motion and cut around the plants close 
to the crown, but do not go more than one inch 
deep around the plants, merely cutting the crust. 
You may hoe deeper in dry weather than when 
it is wet, because the roots go deeper searching 
for moisture, while in wet seasons the feeding 
roots work near the surface because the soil 
there is more easily penetrated. 
Layering the Runners 
\TO sooner do the plants become well estab- 
■'■ ^ lished in the soil than, with that instinct 
which underlies all life and which keeps this 
good old world of ours a-going, they set about 
the work of perpetuating their race and multi- 
plying it throughout the earth. Those of our 
friends who are just beginning work along the 
lines of strawberry production will be surprised 
at the amount of energy shown by each plant 
in this line of work, and at the number of new 
plants each mother plant will produce. So 
ambitious are these mother plants that if left 
to themselves they soon would be exhausted in 
reproducing their kind. In another place in 
this book is discussed the different systems or 
methods which different growers follow in ar- 
ranging their fields or patches — single-hedge 
rows, double-hedge rows, narrow-matted rows, 
wide-matted rows, and the hill system. This 
matter should be determined in each case at 
the time the plants are set. And having deter- 
mined this point, the manner or form in which 
