1^^ K-M.KeliLOGg's Cheat Crops or <^ 
Lady Thompson, B. (Male) 
EARLY TO LATE. Bisexual. A bright-red berry, 
shaped almost like a top and medium large, with the 
lower end just a little blunt, which makes - it rather 
more beautiful than otherwise it would be. The seeds are 
red, not very smooth, giving to the fruit a glossy effect. 
The fruit is solid and meaty, with an exceedingly rich 
flavor and pink in color. It has a double calyx that 
opens closely over the berry; the foliage is extra tall 
and grows upright and has a long light-green leaf. 
The long fruit stems also stand erect, holdmg their 
berries well up from the ground. This variety is a 
deep rooter and keeps right on growing through the 
drouth. Runners are long and abundant. Seven years 
of breeding increases our high opinion of this variety, 
and the numerous large orders received annually indi- 
cate its increasing popularity. 
Beidler, P. (Female 1 
MEDIUM EARLY. Pistillate. Very large as to 
size of fruit and productiveness. Unusually attractive 
when packed properly for market. In color it is bright 
red, and in flavor it is exceedingly rich. Solid in texture, 
it makes an ideal shipper, and the fact that the bright- 
ness of color is retained for days after picking insures 
the berries getting to market in attractive form. Foliage 
is large and healthy, a tall and upright grower. The 
heavy fruit stems give it power to hold up well the 
enormous yields of extra-large berries. It is a medium 
plant-maker. Thompson's No. 2 makes an ideal male 
for the Beidler. We have had the Beidler in our 
breeding beds for three years, and have bred all the 
variation in foliage out of it, making it beautiful as well 
as profitable, and we advise all our friends to give this 
variety a thorough test. 
Feeding the Young Plant 
THERE is a remarkable correspondence between 
plant life and animal life, and we may draw many 
lessons from our experience with the latter that will 
help us better to understand how best to encourage plant 
life. It is a principle of science that the young animal 
shall be fed nourishing food from the beginning of its 
life, without let or hindrance. There must be no period 
of rest in the process of its growth ; it must move for- 
ward from birth to maturity unchecked. This same 
principle is established in plant life. As the plant gels 
its food from the soil-particles dissolved by moisture in 
the soil, the necessity of bringing to the plant new parti- 
cles of soil laden with plant food and dissolved so 
that it may be easily assimilated by the plant, is readily 
seen. Stirring and moving of the soil is one of the pro- 
cesses by which this plant food is supplied constantly to 
the young plant. It is one of the compensatory laws of 
nature that the work done in this direction aids to pre- 
serve the fertility of the soil, or at least makes the stored- 
up fertility in the soil available as plant food. Keep, 
therefore, an abundant supply of plant food in the soil, 
both by working it mechanically and adding to it chem- 
ically where necessary, and there will be no doubt of 
the success of your strawberry enterprise. 
Thoroughbreds Bring Top Prices 
WRITING under date of March 25, 1907, Albert 
PackctI of Essex Center, Vt., says: "I have 
been growing strawberries from Kellogg plants for four 
years. I have not grown any bumper crops yet, but I 
have grown berries that I never have had to sell for less 
than 1 1 cents per basket, with the bulk of the crop at 
14 to 16 cents. Last year I received a letter from a man 
saying he wanted twenty-four quarts of fancy berries 
and to never mind the price but ship at once if they 
were fancy. I had Sample and Brandywine, and 
sent one-half of each, with a bill for $4.80. He sent 
me $5.00 and said he would know where to get his 
strawberries another year. Pedigree plants is what did 
the business." 
