R^.Kellogg's Great Crops of <^ 
ONE OF THE PLANTS.,FROM THE FIELD THAT YIELDED MORE THAN $1,500 AN ACRE 
pROM H. B. Steward, proprietor of the Highlands Fruit Farm, Myrtle Point, Ore., we have received the above 
photograph and his statement indicating the remarkable yields he has secured from his plants, the greater portion 
of which were received from our farm. Mr. Steward says: "I marketed my first berries in 1906 on the 10th day 
of May; my last October 20 (more than five months of a picking season). The plants yielded crops to exceed 
$1,500.00 per acre at 50 cents a gallon. This may sound big, but it is a fact that I picked two and a half gallons 
from a single plant during the season, and one of my August Luther plants yielded 286 berries, ranging from five 
to seven inches in circumference." 
sulphur is more effective in the case of mildew. 
Bordeaux mixture is made as follows: Four 
pounds of unslaked lime in four gallons of hot 
water; four fwunds blue vitriol dissolved in four 
gallons of water; to which add sufficient water 
to make one barrel of forty gallons. 
Spray to prevent, not to cure. Once disease 
or insects lay hold upon your fields there is 
trouble ahead. Keep your eyes open ; take fre- 
quent trips through the rows of plants keen to 
discover the presence of trouble. At its first 
appearance get out the spray pump and proceed 
to cover the plants with a copper-plate of blue 
vitriol in the form of Bordeaux mixture, if the 
difficulty be of a fungous nature. If there are 
insects, paint them with Paris green. If you 
see a spotted leaf or one affected by rust or 
blight, don't wait to look for another, for the 
trouble will spread while you are thinking it 
over. If it be in spring, just as growth is start- 
ing, spray at once with Bordeaux mixture; fol- 
low with a light treatment ten days later, and 
then, just before the buds burst into bloom, give 
them a last drenching. But never put poisons on 
strawberry plants when they are fruiting or in 
bloom. 
If your plant leaves get to curling up and 
they look as though affected by drought — that 
means mildew, and you should spray with liver 
of sulphur, using one pound to forty gallons of 
water. This may be used after the berries have 
formed. To be effective it must be used while 
fresh. 
"As ye spray, so shall your harvest be," is 
the way one writer expresses his estimate of the 
value of spraying; and he is right wherever the 
slightest danger of affection exists. But if you 
use the Kellogg strain of plants it is not probable 
that spraying will be necessary, because these 
plants are so thoroughly sprayed in the propa- 
gating bed that they are entirely free from any 
taint of fungus or insects. 
Preparing for Second Crop 
JUST as soon as the last picking of the straw- 
berries is made the entire field should be 
mowed over. Where the field is large a two- 
horse mowing machine may be used, but in small 
patches a scythe or sickle will do. As the 
crown of the plant is well protected by the soil 
there will be little danger of mowing the vines 
too closely. This work should be done when 
