R, M. Kello&g's Great Crops of 
ESTEBIOB OF PACKING HOUSE. 
A model packing house with a model system. The plants are brought In through large doors at the 
rear; eac-h bag of plants has a tag with the name ot variety printed on it in large letters, also the signa- 
ture of foreman that dug them and the teamster's name that hauled them in from the field: each 
variety is placed in its own stall or bin and counted by a careful, painstaking woman and tied in bunches 
of twenty-live plants each with a label bearing the name of variety and also counter-s jiumhcr in each 
bunch. Each department is under the supervision of a responsible, experienced foreman with ourselves 
making close inspection of each department at frequent intervals. Not even a whisper allowed, every- 
body attending strictly to business. Over one hundred people employed in this building with as mucn 
order and quietne.ss as in a well ordered school room;the building is kept cool and damp all the time by 
frequent sprinklings and shading the windows, the plants are freshly packed in damp live sphagnum 
moss and are shipped all over the United States and to foreign countries. Two express companies have 
offices located in the building and every order is billed ready for shipping before it leaves the Packing 
house. It requires four express clerks to handle the express business, two expert men to tie up plants that 
go by mall, and one man to bill out freight orders. 
READY rOR BUSINESS. 
This picture shows part of our men getting ready to dig plants; the .'""'<=';'"f ^as been re^^ 
and the next thing Is to clean off all the old runners and leaves; nothing shipped from this 'a"n but 
??ots and crowns^ NO cusiomer asked to pay express charges on useless material; plants are all cleaned 
ready for s etting and every one will grow vigorously If properly set out. 
yield whether hills, narrow or double hedge, is determined here; also effects of different 
or narrow matted rows. The proper mating fertilizers and spray materials. 
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