^ K-M.Kellogg's Gkeat Crops or^ 
Thompson's No. 2, B. (Male) 
MEDIUM EARLY. Bisexual. Produces bright- 
red berries in great quantities. They are high in color, 
rich in flavor and are extra-good shippers, while being 
extraordinarily strong as pollenizers — a combination of 
qualities that makes this variety a winner of popular 
favor. The shape of the berry is almost globular, mak- 
ing a handsome appearance in the box; the skin does 
not break easily in handling, and the fruit holds its color 
after being picked. Foliage is dark green and glossy, 
with a tough tissue that makes it strongly resistant to all 
leaf-sfwt, such as rust, blight and mildew. Its bright 
color and polished effect are retained all through the 
season. This is the third year we have had it under 
selection and restriction, and none need hesitate to give 
this splendid new variety a liberal trial. 
Ridge way, B. (Male) 
MEDIUM TO LATE. Bisexual. This has 3 
large blood-red berry, round as a cherry and almost as 
smooth. The seeds are imbedded in the flesh just deeply 
enough to make a smooth surface, and the combination 
makes a very handsome berry, whose beauty is not 
lessened when cut open, as the interior is quite as tempt- 
ing as the outside. The meat is a scarlet with an oblong 
ring around the heart almost white. The calyx is small 
and droops over the berry remaining several days after 
being picked. The foliage is a tall grower, with dark- 
green leaves and the runners are extra large and grow 
long before forming nodes for new plants. This makes 
the eleventh year we have had Ridgeway under our 
method of selection, and our strain of this variety is 
making friends wherever tested. 
Cultivation Essential to Success 
GOOD cultural methods cannot be too strongly urged 
upon the strawberry grower. Having good plants 
and good soil to start with, nature may be depended 
upon to do her work, if man will perform his part. It is 
difficult to lay down absolute rules, as conditions differ so 
greatly under various circumstances, as to soil, climate, 
etc. The grower must in large part be governed by his 
own judgment in very many ways, but there are certain 
general rules which must be observed. He must never 
allow the weeds to grow up between his rows of plants, 
and to keep them down, he must cultivate and hoe; he 
must bring new supplies of plant food up to the plants, 
and this the cultivator and the hoe will do; he must 
conserve the moisture in the soil, and to do this the 
frequent use of the cultivator and hoe is necessary. On 
the other hand, too much cultivation tends to encourage 
vegetative growth at the expense of the fruit-producing 
organism, and care must be observed to see that this be 
not done. After you have succeeded in securing a strong 
fruit-producing organism, should you find in the spring 
that the foliage is somewhat deficient, apply forty pounds 
of nitrate of soda to each acre of plants as soon as 
growth begins in the spring, and repeat this treatment 
just before buds open. The result will be a surprising 
growth of foliage, and a greatly stimulated root develop- 
ment. Remember that cultivation opens up space in the 
earth furnishing air to bacteria, which in turn, work up 
the plant food. The moisture in the soil which is pre- 
served for cultivation dissolves the plant food after the 
bacterial germs have made it available, thus making it 
of easy access to the plant; and thus are supplied by the 
simple process of cultivation, moisture, air and food — 
the three high essentials to the successful development of 
all plant life. So we say cultivate with intelligence, but 
cultivate persistently if you would attain higS success. 
$360 From Less Than Half an Acre 
UNDER date February 13. 1907, Oliver Black of 
Pittsburg, Pa., writes: "Last season we sold 
3,600 quarts of berries from the 3,000 Thoroughbred 
plants purchased from you. The highest price received 
was 15 cents a quart; the lowest 8 cents; the average 
was 10 cents. They were all fine berries." 
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