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STRIKING A BALANCE 
BALANCE between fruit and foliage is one of the prime essentials in the fruit-bearing- plant. While the fo- 
liage should not equal the fruit in weight, of course, yet, the correct proportions must be preserved if the plant 
is to do its best, and this is one of the points carefully cultivated in the Kellogg plants. Any variety producing 
fruit out of proportion to its foliage is brought to a balance by selecting from mother plants having a tend- 
ency to build up a heavier foliage; and those which build up too much foliage at the expense of fruit are treated 
so as to correct this fault, encouraging an equal divison of their energies; thus obtaining a more perfect balance 
and increased productiveness. A large crop of berries cannot be matured without the assistance of a proportion- 
ate amount of foliage; and a large foliage, without a well-developed fruit-yg^ucing organism is of no value. 
it; from these again select the individual which 
nearest approaches the type in mind, and so on, 
generation after generation, until the desired ob- 
ject is attained. In order to make rapid progress, 
the same ideal must be kept in mind, year by 
year, lest there be a vacillation and the progress 
of one year undone by a counter movement the 
following. 
"In working along these lines, we find that 
almost any feature of a plant may be intensified. 
Every group of plants is endowed with certain 
characteristics, and by careful watching and close 
study of the habits of each particular variety of 
the strawberry it is possible to break the type 
and it will depart from its normal behavior; then 
soon it becomes plastic enough to allow of mod- 
ification in the manner desired. We now have 
it practically under our control and develop it 
to the ideal type in view. 
"It is a mistake to have in mind at the same 
time several objects. We breed for one thing 
at a time. If a particular variety is deficient in 
productiveness, but possesses other points of su- 
periority, then prolificacy is the principal object 
worked for, giving sufficient attention to other 
features to keep them up to the normal stand- 
ard. When the one point we are working for has 
attained our ideal, the next deficiency is taken 
up for improvement. Breeding along these lines 
proceeds until all organisms of the plant are 
brought to the ideal. 
"In order to make our method plain, I will 
use as an illustration two of the standard varie- 
ties, Clyde and (Jandy. The Clyde when first 
introduced had a poor balance between fruit and 
foliage, being deficient in the latter. 'I'he first 
thing to be done here, then, was to increase the 
foliage by selecting mother plants showing a 
