GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
Copyright 1912 by R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers. Mich. 
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CARL ARNESON'S STRAWBERRY PLOT AT BRANDT. S. D. 
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you have propagated some of the best strawberry 
plants in this country." 
Willet M. Hays, Assistant Secretary of 
Agriculture, says with reference to plant im- 
provement in the United States: 
"That the five to six billion dollars' worth of 
plant and animal products annually grown in the 
United States can be increased 10 per cent by se- 
lection and breeding is not seriously doubted by 
those best able to judge." 
Liberty H. Bailey, the famous Dean of 
Cornell Agricultural College, says on this 
most important subject: 
"It is of no consequence either to produce or 
introduce a 'new variety', but it is of immense 
consequence to produce a line of plants having a 
superior efficiency for some specific purpose. 
Plant breeding is worthy of the name only as it 
sets definite ideals, and then works toward them 
with predictable assurance." 
Referring to the growing demand for bet- 
ter nursery stock of all kinds, Prof. E. H. 
Favor of Missouri, says: 
"Planters have demanded cheap trees and they 
have had them. But the time is coming when 
the planter will know better than to set out such 
trees, just because they are cheap. He will wake 
up, just as the corn growers have waked up. He 
will understand that the very best trees he can 
buy— stock produced from bearing trees of high 
rating— are far the cheapest when they reach 
bearing age. The man who plants an orchard 
with scrub nursery stock, will go the way of the 
man who breeds his mare to a scrub stallion or 
who expects to get rich with a flock of jnongrel 
hens. The dawn is breaking on the orchards 
where 'every tree has a pedigree.' " 
One of the crops which we grow in alter- 
nate years on our strawberry plant farm is 
corn. We buy pedigree seed from America's 
most noted corn breeders at $5.00 per bushel, 
and pay the express charges. Some seed 
firms agree to furnish us seed just as good 
for $2.00 per bushel, but we measure the 
results by the number of bushels of corn we 
get per acre, and not by the cost of the seed. 
We know from experience that no seed firm 
can give us five-dollar value in seed-corn for 
$2.00. If they could, they would not sell it 
at that price. What we learn in the school 
of experience is seldom forgotten because it 
costs so dearly. See illustrations on Pages 4 
and 5 and note the difference between pedi- 
gree seed-corn and "the other kind." 
The man who sets pedigree plants will reap 
from the first crop of berries many times the 
difference in the price paid for such plants. 
Up to date there never have been any plants 
grown that could equal the Kellogg pedigree 
plants either in quality or quantity of fruit, 
and when there are better plants grown the 
Kellogg Company will grow them. 
