^ K.M.Keillogg's Grjeat Crops of^ 
KELLOGG'S THOROUGHBREDS IN VERMONT 
■mRITlNG under date of July 27, 1907, C. F. Rutan 
of North Bennington, Vermont, says: "I enclose 
a photograph 1 look of my field containing the 4,000 
plants we received from you last April. This photo- 
graph was taken the first Sunday in July. The field has 
been pronounced the best in Bennington county. We 
have given the plants your method of cultivation through- 
out. We sold our entire crop from your plants last 
year for 15c per quart and there were not enough of 
them to supply the demand." 
berry business, while the apiarist will find the 
strawberry a supplementary producer of cash of 
the first order. 
Then there is another reason why the straw- 
berry grower will find the bee a helpful business 
associate. Everybody knows how important it 
is that all forms of plant life be perfectly pol- 
lenated if it is to bear to its full its particular 
fruit. The bee is of the greatest aid in this di- 
rection. As he gathers the nectar of the straw- 
berry blossom he loads himself down with the 
fertilizing pollen, and as he moves from flower 
to flower he carries this essential element on 
wings and legs to be absorbed by the pistils of 
the neighboring strawberry plants. It is matter 
of practical experience that in sections where the 
bee is numerous, there are grown the most per- 
fectly formed and matured fruit. 
Potatoes and Strawberries 
I7VERY potato grower should raise straw- 
'—' berries too, and every strawberry producer 
should grow potatoes. These two crops make 
a splendid complementary combination. No 
other crop puts the soil in such fine condition for 
strawberries as does the potato crop. The tu- 
bers leave the ground fine and mellow, and much 
of the acid in the soil is taken up by them, leav- 
ing it in a neutral state, neither too sour nor too 
sweet. This is just the kind of soil that straw- 
berries thrive in. 
Another reason why the strawberry grower 
should grow potatoes is that tubers are of them- 
selves a very profitable crop. By planting them 
early the potatoes may be put on the early mar- 
ket at high prices and they will yield a very 
large profit. 
Our plan is to grow two crops of strawberries 
and after the second crop is picked plow the 
vines and mulch under and sow to cow peas at 
the rate of six pecks to the acre. In the fall 
turn the pea vines, peas and all under and after 
working up the soil into fine condition sow the 
field to rye at the rate of five pecks to the acre. 
Cover the growing rye with barnyard manure in 
the winter if the soil is poor and needs it, and in 
the spring plow rye and manure under and plant 
to potatoes. After the potatoes are dug harrow 
the ground once or twice and sow to rye again, 
which will make an ideal fall pasture. Should 
you be so situated that you do not wish to turn 
stock upon the rye, then defer sowing the rye 
until the latter part of September or early Octo- 
ber. The following spring turn this rye crop 
under, cultivate the soil until it is like a flower 
garden, and it will be in ideal condition for 
strawberries, and with strong, well-developed 
plants 6,000 quarts or more per acre of fancy 
berries should be grown upon it. 
The Family Strawberry Patch 
\Y7E have been talking about strawberries for 
" the family for a good many years. It 
has given us no little pleasure to know that we 
have encouraged hundreds of our good friends to 
engage in the work of establishing a family patch 
and to be told that great success and satisfaction 
have followed. It is becoming true in many 
sections where the influence of previous editions 
of this book has permeated that about every 
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