AN IDEAL MOTHER PLANT. 
LJ ERK is one of our Thoroughbred Pedigreed mother'plants in bloom, sho-.ving the result of careful selection. 
* * The.se plants have a gland system developed in them that converts their food into fruit buds, which in turn 
are transformed into large quantities of big red berries. They do the work at a much less expense than possi- 
bly could be done by weak and poorly developed plants. This wonderful fruit-producing organism is in- 
herited from the ancestral mother plants, just as Loretta D., the famous cow, inherits her good qualities from 
carefully bred ancestors. This is why the leading berry growers all over the world are purchasers of the Kellogg 
strains of plants, and universally proclaim them to be the best and most profitable of any strawberry plants pro- 
duced. Twenty millions of these plants made our selling record for 1905. 
It is plainly seen that we are not following along 
the lines of the latter; on the contrary, improve- 
ments have been made which are beyond the 
highest ideals of our fathers. 
Undoubtedly God could have made every- 
thing perfect instead of placing it here in crude 
form, but this would have deprived man of great 
pleasure as well as many honors. While work- 
ing out improvemenis and striving for better 
things Our minds are tilled with good thoughts 
and there is no rooni for evil. Thus in breed- 
ing up nature we also are breeding higher am- 
bition into OMr own lives. 
Improvement in fruit, grain, animals, ma- 
chinery or anything else depends entirely upon 
man, and advancement will be made according 
to his efforts. The plant breeder must be pos- 
sessed with the pationce of an inventor who con- 
tinues remoulding his model with an aim to reach 
the perfection mark rather than gold, which 
would seem to be the primary object. We sel- 
dom hear of an inventor getting rich; those 
who purchase his invention after it it has been per- 
fected are the ones who reap the financial re- 
ward. Likewise the plant breeder cannot have 
gold as his ideal; he must find pleasure in breed- 
ing and improving his plants rather than accu- 
mulating wealth, and like the inventor, he should 
not feel satisfied in discontinuing his selections 
imtil the perfection mark is attained; and lucky 
are those who purchase the plants after they have 
been bre.l up to such a high standard of excel- 
lence. The tillers who apply proper cultural 
methods to highly bred plants are as much to 
be envied in a tinancial way as are those who 
purchase the perfected invention. 
The starting point in breeding up the straw- 
berry plant is lo have a clear picture in mind of 
the type desired. Then select the plant which 
is nearest the ideal, and set the offsprings from 
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