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GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
Copyright 1912 by R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers. Mich. 
DAISY GRACE DE KOL. THE WORLD'S CHAiVlPION JUNIOR FOUR-YEAR-OLD COW 
T"??^.,^™*^ f"?"? ^"i?;'*' not only is one of the most symmeterically developed and beautiful cows in America, but has the dis- 
tinction of being the world s champion four-year-old milker. In 365 days she gave 21718.3 pounds of milk containinK 962 795 
pounds of butter fat which made 1203 493 pounds of butter. The percentage of butter fat was4 43 Only fiurfuTag^ c^^^ 
heS of Smo^Brof ^Z^cl^'^^^'^n^'' ^^JS? '^'f extraordinary junior. Daisy belongs to'ihe Holstein^FriesiTn 
^f ii^ih l^^. ' Claridon, Ohio owners of Maplecrest Farm, who are among the leading specialists in this great strain 
of milch cows. The unusual record made by Daisy is not surprising when her ancestry, together with the careful brelding 
selection and care always exercised by these specialists, are considered. The same intelligent thought given to plant- ife rraulU 
n the sameorder of success m the horticultural world. It is this orderof breeding, selection and cultivation that has given [o Kel! 
logg s Thoroughbreds thedistinction they possess and makes them, by common consent, the world s champion strawberry plants 
lumbiagrower reports 54,000 quarts of berries 
from four acres of our Thoroughbreds, and 
as will be seen in another place in this book, 
one Colorado grower netted from one acre of 
our plants in 1912 $1,200.00. Thousands of 
others send us similar reports of success. 
One of the fixed laws of Nature is that 
everything reproduces after its kind — 
"whatsoever ye sow that shall ye also reap." 
Concretely expressed as to strawberry 
plants, it means that a strawberry runner 
plant inherits the characteristics of the parent 
plant. In other words, the fruit-producing 
organism of the mother plant determines 
the fruiting power of the runner plants. 
Neither cultivation or fertilization, nor 
both combined, can enlarge upon that 
which Nature has already fixed in the plant. 
They do, however, encourage the plant to 
develop to the full its inherent powers, and 
are essential to success in producing results. 
Every close-observing strawberry grower 
knows that there is as much difference be- 
tween plants of the same variety as there is 
between animals of the same breed. One 
plant will yield more fruit of higher f;uality 
than another of the same kind and when set 
in the same soil and given the same cultural 
care; and some plants of „ , , ^ 
the most prolific varieties Careful Selection 
will be quite barren. This ^^"^^^^'^ 
fact alone shows the absolute necessity of 
careful selection of mother plants in the nurs- 
ery if plants sold to the public are to be pro- 
lific of good fruit. 
Let us repeat, in order that it may be clear- 
ly understood, that some plants will build up 
a larger number of perfectly-developed 
crowns than other plants of the same variety, 
and by selecting runner plants which come 
from these mother plants we get plants which 
have inherited a heavy fruit-producing organ- 
ism, and by rejecting the runner plants which 
come from deteriorated mother plants, we 
eliminate the barren or drone plants. 
Plants of any variety which develop a 
heavy fruit-producing organism are in the 
minority, and unless we do select from the 
best, the variety soon deteriorates. For 
when plants are propagated under the old 
method of using plants without discrimi- 
nation we get only a small percentage of 
