THE KELLOGG THOROUGHBREDS IN CANADA. 
IT was a wet season about Cobourg, Ontario, but W. H. Rogers of that place writes us under date of July 18, 
* 1905, that he had sold 1,750 boxes to date, with berries still on the vines. He sold direct to consumers at 15 
cents a quart for firsts and 12 1-2 cents for seconds, and had the market all to himself. The picture of his plan- 
tation suggests that Mr. Rogers knows how to handle our plants to bring results. 
ing in its regular season, as certain changes in 
atmospheric conditions may advance the buds 
in one, while the same conditions might retard 
the buds in the opposite sex. Immediately after 
the pistillate or female flower opens, the stigma 
is most receptive, and if the male, or bisexual, 
flower opens at the same time and is strong in 
potency of pollen, the ovules will all be fertil- 
ized, fecundation taking place at once; this 
insures a perfectly developed berry. 
Inasmuch as this verj' important feature con- 
tributes so largely to the success of fancy berry 
growing, we hope the reader will follow our 
suggestion and use two varieties of bisexuals to 
each pistillate, thereby lessening the possibility 
of any blank bloom. Every pistillate on our 
farms is set in this way, and we are positive that 
it pays. We are not advancing anything in this 
hook which is in the experimental stage; noth- 
mg but approved facts. 
Our Mr. Beatty is one of the most extensive 
strawberry experimenters in the world, and in 
actual work as a commercial strawberry grower 
never failed to grow a big crop of fancy straw- 
berries in ten years. This method of congenial 
mating is his discovery. There is but very little, 
if any, difference between plant and animal life 
in this respect, and we all know that if any re- 
sults are expected from animals, they must be 
mated at the proper time, and what is common 
sense in animal breeding also is common sense 
in plant breeding. In fact, the more clearly we 
comprehend the correspondence between plant 
life and animal life, the easier it will be for us 
to administer to their wants in a manner con- 
genial to their respective natures. 
Pollen Exhaustion 
ONE of the most critical periods in plant 
life is during the blooming season, at 
which time the grower has a chance either 
to strengthen or weaken the vitality in plants, 
and which ever course he pursues, the effect will 
be the same on his bank account as it is on the 
plants. It is a serious error to try to force 
plants of any kind to produce pollen and devel- 
op seeds before the roots are established in the 
soil; and when this is demanded of them their 
vital forces are consumed during the process 
and the result is actually fatal or they are left 
in an exceedingly weakened condition. It is an 
easy matter to relieve plants of the great strain 
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