GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
Copyright 1912 by R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
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A FIELD OF COMMON CORN ON AN ADJOINING FARM 
THE photographer's camera may always be relied upon to picture things as they are. A glance at this field is all that is nec- 
essary to reveal the difference between PediKree seed and common seed. Note the undeveloped stiilks heie as comparea 
with those on the opposite pase. Note also the uneven growth of the stalks, which is a sure mark of the varymg vitality of the 
seed This field indicated a yield, when the photograph was made, of about twenty-five to thirty bushels of nubbins per acre. 
The seed cost Sl.Oll per bushel, or 12 cents per acre. The saving on seed for this field over the cost of Pedigree seed was 48 ctnis 
per acre The cost of plowing and preparing the land, planting the seed and cultivation was the same as in the case ol the 
Pedigree corn Figuring the corn at W cents per bushel out of the field, the Pedigree yielded 560.00 per acre, while the common 
corn yielded only $15.00 per acre, assuming that the selling price for the Pedigree corn and the common corn was the same. 
On this basis we have a difference of $35.00 an acre in favor of Pedigree corn, with only a difference in the cost of seed of 48 cents 
per acre But we should not so calculate the selling price of perfectly developed ears,, because our neighboring corn-growers 
were glad to buv our corn at $2.50 per bushel for seed. Which is the better investment— to save 48 cent« per acre in the cost 
of seed or to n.ake such a gain as we have done in this instance? Every successful farmer knows tnat our way wins success. 
fruit produced by our plants that makes every 
customer of those who use Kellogg plants a 
permanent customer, glad to pay high prices 
for fruit so delicious and altogether satisfac- 
tory. 
We are increasing our acreage as rapidly 
as our methods will permit. This year with 
our Michigan, Idaho and Ore- 
.«''ffV° gon farms we have the largest 
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acreage of plants in the history 
of our company (which is a larger acreage 
than is grown by any other two concerns) and 
we feel confident that we shall be able to fill 
all the orders that come to us from both old 
and new customers. 
To those who never have tested our plants 
let us say that a trial order will convince you 
more forcibly of their wonderful fruiting 
qualities than anything we might say. The 
best evidence you can get is to try the plants 
out on your own ground. This will give 
them an opportunity to prove their real 
worth. If you will do so you will not only 
become an every-year customer, but a Kel- 
logg booster. 
Building Kellogg Plants 
OUR method of selecting plants from moth- 
er plants of the most perfect type and 
restricting them so that they shall not 
become weakened by pollen secretion and 
seed production, is not the only thing that 
has made the Kellogg strain of plants famous 
tne world over. A perfectly developed straw- 
berry plant may be obtained only by growing 
it in a soil well supplied with a balanced 
]ilant-food and with sufficient moisture to 
bring the plant into full maturity. As a 
chain is only as strong as its weakest link, so 
is a strawberry plant fruitful only to the de- 
gree that its weakest part makes possible. 
We wish to make this point clear, there- 
fore please note the illustration of the cow on 
Page 2. This cow has been selected from a 
long line of ancestry dating back for many 
